#21 - The Bumpy Road and the Crapping Ape - 1985
First off we weren't drunk or on drugs or anything when these two events happened!
Jeff and I were driving up skiing at Kirkwood, as we were wont to do. We were in the Sierra Nevada Mountains just past Drytown heading up to skiing when we say a large ape like creature which was apparently squatting on the side of the road taking a dump. As we approached this creature we were freaking out big time "Oh my god it's a crapping ape!" Jeff cried, I struggled to maintain my composure until we finally reached the creature, which turned out to be a boulder on the side of the road. Jeff and I could not believe how much the rock looked like an ape taking a dump. So we skied and on the way home we decided to take a short cut through Fiddletown. We drove through some fog and we got a little lost for a while but eventually got onto the road and it was THE FUNNEST ROAD EVER it was like a rollercoaster with large up and down humps. We actually were making the sound "Whheeeeee!" as we crested each peak and plunged into each valley.
So we get back to the dorms and get a couple of people to go skiing with us the next week. We tell them all about the crapping ape and the bumpy road. We drive along waiting to see this incredible crapping ape shaped boulder and when we get there it looks nothing like an ape, much less a crappy one. The girls we are with ridicule us. Yet I swear the week before it looked exactly like a crapping ape, enough to make two grown men start yelling in excitement. So we ski and are looking forward to taking them on the roller coaster like bumpy road. We get to the Fiddletown turn off and make our way to the short cut and onto the bumpy road, only this time it's not bumpy. No spectacular ups and downs no yelling "Whheeeeee!" it was very nearly flat. Again the girls ridiculed us.
To this day I will swear, and I think Jeff'll back me up, that some sort of monumental shift in the fabric of reality occurred during that week to wipe out the crappy ape and the bumpy road. It's the only solution!!!!
Note, Jeff and I dealt with yet another monumental shift in the fabric of reality later in our college career.....But that is a story for a later date!