Saturday morning Buck wanted to go shoot his new revolver he got for Christmas because he hadn't been able to shoot it yet. So I went with him and we drove out clear around past Saratoga Springs to the other side of Utah Lake to shoot. We had an awesome time. As we were getting ready to leave, we pulled out in Buck's 1986 Toyota 4Runner and he saw some mud and water up ahead. I believe our conversation went something like this:
Buck: Check it out! A mud puddle! (even though it was more like a mud river)
Annalee: Um, don't you think we'll get stuck?
B: Psh, no.
A: Um, we're gonna get stuck
B: We wont get stuck, my truck has 4wheel drive
A: Ha ha ha.
I laughed.
No, your truck had 4wheel drive, in 1986, I think only to myself not wanting to hurt his pride too much. His poor little truck that is almost as old as I am can't make it up the hill of Center St. in Orem as you get off the freeway past 2nd gear. Yes, any little hill he tries to climb he has to do it in 1st or 2nd gear and it takes us like 10 minutes to go up a tiny hill. (But we'll be fixing this problem soon)
Buck punches it and we very willingly and knowingly drive into the muddy river-rutted quicksandy abyss.
So we get half way through when we stop moving and the tires are spinning and Buck has it floored but we're no longer going forward. Wierd, I know. Our conversation continues:
A: Hmmm...did you just get us stuck?
B: No we're having fun. This is fun!
A: (on the phone with Heather) Oh my word we're stuck. Out in the middle of nowhere, totally stuck.
Buck scowls at me.
B: This is fun, it's fun to get stuck in the mud, you're just being negative!
Buck grabs the shovel he luckily and inspirationally grabbed and get's out of the truck.
A: (yelling out to him from the inside of the truck) I told you we'd get stuck! You did this on purpose!
So he digs for a little while and then gets back into the truck to try and back out. He's no longer smiling or laughing or having a good time.
A: I thought you were having fun?
B: Mud is fun. This is not mud, this is clay, and clay sucks!
A: So it's fun to be stuck in mud but not clay? Even though either way, we're stuck?
B: Mud is a lot easier to get out of. Clay is harder.
A: Hmmm...but you thought it would be fun to drive through this and said we wouldn't get stuck.
Buck slams the door. (Well deserved I'm sure)
I offer to help him.
B: No don't get out, you'll get all muddy.
Good point, I think to myself
I think that God must've known Buck wasn't going to have his brain with him that day because we sure got lucky. Buck just happened to put a shovel in his truck right before we left to go shooting. And right next to the spot where we were stuck there just happened to be some abandoned tow straps. And then right after noticing them, 3 guys pull up in a 4wheel drive jeep and 2 other's in a bronco.
So Buck hooks the tow strap to our truck and the guys in the jeep attempt to pull us out. As they pull, the tow strap just breaks things off our truck and we don't budge an inch.
B: Eh we don't need that anyway
Keep on digging and pulling and spinning tires. The guys helping us ask:
"Wow how did you get so stuck?"
A: Willingly. We did this on purpose because it's fun.
It totally could've been worse though right? We could've not gotten so lucky on Buck's lack-of-thinking day.
About an hour later we finally budged free!
That's also pretty lucky, we could've been stuck there for days or weeks or who knows how long before someone would've found us axel deep in mud. Excuse me, clay.
Buck jumps back in the truck and we thank everyone and we start to drive off.
B: Well even though I hate clay that was still kinda fun
A: I told you we'd get stuck
So now this is where I had fun in this whole ordeal. :) We ended up laughing about it the whole way home and I took pics to blog it. Ha ha I was having a blast, and the funny thing is, he wasn't really laughing anymore.
B: Okay, enough with the pictures!
A: But this is fun!! :)
Even though he has his days, I love this little Wrangler butt!
3 comments:
That gave me a good laugh! Don't worry Blake, I would've done the same thing! While reading it, I was kinda jealous.....It's definitely a guy thing to love mud.....and clay! Way to rub it in Annalee....that made it even more entertaining....although I can totally relate to Blake's comments during the whole thing. Thanks again. We really need to get together sometime! We are going to visit Evan and Jodi in Spanish Fork in April...possibly around General Conference time. We should get together and finally meet Annalee....even though we already feel like we know her through your blog! Eric
hahahahaha, you guys are awesome!
HAHAHA! That is so amazing! To me, it sounds like you both had fun.
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