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08/16/2003 Archived Entry: "#1 GRANDDAUGHTER IS HEADING THIS WAY"

#1 GRANDDAUGHTER IS HEADING THIS WAY

What a relief cell phones can be. Everyone ought to have one, with a permanently assigned number that never changes. Then, when you get a name at birth, you also get a cell phone number and both last your lifetime. No changes or alterations allowed. If your name is Henry Huckleberry Humperdinck, so be it. There would be no taking on of husband's surnames or hyphenating surnames, none of that stuff. With hard and fast rules like that, everyone would have a name and phone number for life. Yeah, yeah...I know there is the matter of what you call your kids and what you do about screaming genealogists, and who is going to maintain the world book of cell phone numbers...minor details all. Just go work them out and get back to me.

The granddaughter is back in civilized land, west of St. Louis. I know because I can call and talk with her as she drives along. She'll soon be west of Kansas City where the world begins.

For people you worry about, as in her case when she was really stopped dead in her tracks yesterday for hours somewhere in Pennsylvania, cell phones are just the greatest thing since the advent of Kleenex. Brit and I don't happen to have them, but everyone else in our family does, even the grandsons. There isn't any reason to worry when you can pick up that thing that is stuck to hips world-wide and call. For busy people, they are a must. There is less and less reason to have a permanent phone at home when no one is ever there.

After huge delays when they routed traffic off the turnpike because of road construction, wrecks, and bridges that were out, she finally got across the river and back on the turnpike. Then there was a torrential downpour with zero visibility. With that, she pulled off the road and found a motel.

This morning, there were more problems...fog. The radar screen was green with it. It was so thick it was showing up as rain. Well, finally that lifted and the traffic started moving for good about 6:30 am.

Tomorrow the family is gathering at the Mongolian BBQ in Salina for a quick visit over dinner between Mackenzie’s packing and the boys checking out their football equipment. Monday morning she’ll be heading to Dallas and the boys have football practice. Schedules are returning to “normal” and we know what to anticipate for the next nine months.