In honor of all those crazy folks doing National Novel Writing Month, I present The NaNoWriMo Family Takes a Road Trip
Dad: Check out the odometer. Another 5,000 words down- Mom: LOOK OUT! Dad: What? Mom: You just hit a typo. Dad: (silence) Mom: Should we go back to help it out? Dad: There's no time. Mom: But what if we don't see it on the way back- Dad: THERE'S NO TIME! klunk-klunk Mom: Would you PLEASE pay attention. You hit another one. klunk-KLUNK Mom: And now you've hit a grammatical mistake! Just pull over to let me drive. Dad: No, I've got this. Mom: At least pull over so we can use the restroom. Dad: There's no time! Here. Use this soda bottle. Mom: Well, would you at least hand me the map so I can plot our course? Dad: Plotting? We'll never get there if we do that. Kid: Are we there yet? Dad: No! We have 35,000 more words to go, and if you keep asking, I will turn us around at the next paragraph. Mom: Watch out ahead. Cops like to sit at this word sprint. Kid: Susie said her mom only has 20,000 more words left. Dad: Well, hurrah for Susie's mom. Some of us actually type words that are longer than two syllables long. Kid: Susie said her mom's book is better than yours. Dad: Well, you can tell Susie that now she's dying in chapter 16.
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