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So I guess ya'll got that I didn't want to repeat myself? lol
Ok. Betty and I always land in the middle of where the action is everytime we travel and we got stuck on the North end of Myrtle Beach. The happenin place is a $25 cab ride and the bus doesn't run after six. So we start asking people where to go to have fun and they told us "For What It's Worth" which is a two block walk so we went. It's mainly a bunch of locals and college kids and the owner is around 26 named Zack. His girlfriend was there and told us she drove 3 1/2 hr in her SUV to spend wkends with him and she bussed tables and drove him to and fro and took his puppy out to go to the bathroom.
Well everybody loved that dog and Betty's taking pictures and talking to Ali (Zack's gf) and she starts crying. I'm like "Omg what's wrong?!" She wouldn't tell me and she went to the bathroom and I asked Ali. She told me she'd told her that her mom passed away and she was only around 24! So we're developing a close relationship with these guys and kept noticing that Zach was flirting with these other girls and they had these twinkleing eyes and all that stuff that all singles do. Ali had to drive back home the next day and Betty had told he she'd be her mom, if she ever needed anyone to talk to. So they exchange #'s.
So the next day we're telling everybody we're hanging out with about Zach's place and go with a group. Having fun and all that and Zach told Betty that Ali isn't his g/f just somebody he sees. Well the dog recognizes Betty. She has basted in the sun all of her life and of course her skin is all pruny and she's extremely thin so her skin kinda just hangs there. She's 62 and we do bruise and bleed more than in younger yrs. The dogs playing with her bites her and she's bleeding. So they bandage it. Ali calls Betty and Betty told her that Zach said she's not his g/f so Zach does not like us anymore.
Ya know none of this sounds funny at all does it? But I'm telling you we've laughed alot about this whole soon to be very big mess.
So we go home and have to leave the next morning and we are both wired. I told Betty I was gonna take a valium so I would sleep and did and did! I wake up at around 2 a.m. with the smoke detector going off and asked what was going on. Betty's standing there in her Erni pj's at the door with these two security guards talking with that thing blasting. She said she'd called her daughter because where the dog had bit her there were streaks going in opposite directions. Her son in law is a dr and told her to get to the emergency room to get a shot quick. So she called the front desk and they called a cab and insisted that she go. She's saying "In my pajama's?!". I told her "Betty! I can't go with you!" Because I was barely awake and knew I could not stay awake for more than 2 minutes. So I'm out like a light and the next day the smoke detector is disconnected and Betty's snoring in the next bed. She's always awake before me. Always.
So we get ready and she told me she was there for 4 hrs trying to stay awake before a dr saw her. We're sitting at the airport and the health dept called Betty and needed to know where the bar is. So she tells them and calls Zach to let him know. And asked to be compensated for any expenses that she incured and he said to just let him know. Turns out that you can't have a bar without serving food and you can't have an animal in the establishment if you serve food.
Ali called Betty twice on her cell phone while we were at work, and Betty tried to call her 4 times but she hasn't returned the call. I'm sure at Zach's request.
Zach had also told us the first day we were there that he'd put his puppy on the balcony and went to work. When he came home the dog was running amok in the condo. An elderly neighbor asked if he noticed that she'd taken him for a walk. He was so shocked. Apparently he doesn't lock his doors. Well the dog ate his new laptop. When he sent it in for repair it wasn't covered under warranty so it cost him another $600 to get fixed and some other very expensive thing the dog had done that I can't remember.
So. Moral of the story is we may have shut down a bar! You know this doesn't sound funny at all but every single time we've told this story people have cracked up at the insanity. We get ourselves into such messes. On of the joys of traveling with her.
This was over my house today, Raj went across the street to make the pics, it was too cool!! So I told the boys to get out in the back yard and whip that leprechaun and steal that pot o' gold so we would be rich forever!!!!!