Way To Go, Blackbrothero

I had it all planned. I've been busy today so I set aside some time once I got home to write my blog. I had planned it all. I was going to go off once again about how Blackwifeo is going to one day be playing a harp in heaven, while I most certainly would be shoveling coal and sweating in the heat down below. I was going to tell how from 6pm - 9pm tonight, she went to pick up her mom, take her to the doctor in Herzliya, waited to give me a ride home, sat in traffic, took her mother home, went to pick up two self-helpless dudes, took them to their self-help meeting, ran an errand for her sister, brought the self-helpless home before getting home herself, and all this with her beautiful, angel-like smile never once fading.

I was then going to go off about how I, blackpetero, came home, irritable after a hard day in the salt mines. Only to find the following on the kitchen table:I was going to rant and rave, in my usual cynical way about how, surely after I shlepped 51 pounds of potion and lotions all the way across the oceans, she surely had no need for Dr. Fisher Genesis Ultra Care Tri-Moist Moisturizing Cream. I was going to slyly mention that I can see by the receipt that instead of 150NIS it was on sale for the unbeatable price of 90NIS, and wisely point out how blackwifeo can never resist a bargain. I was all into the whole juxtaposing (I have been waiting weeks to use that), of her being sooooo good and big and kind, while I am sooooo bad and mean and picky. When I looked at my phone and noticed blackbrothero has sent me an SMS from Houston.

He texted and I quote "So I got a prius, bright red". My crappy replacement phone had no way of telling me that this SMS was actually sent on Saturday. I immediately called him back. The story so far. Blackbrothero's car, a newish, luxurious and stylish Acura MDX SUV was written off by hurricane Ike while waiting at the airport for his return from narrowboating in the UK. Something about a window open, water inside the car and a ravaged electrical system. So we went car shopping while I was in Houston, something I would only ever do with my favorite brother. We looked at Acuras and Toyotas. He wanted something smaller, but seemed set on a fancy Acura (not an SUV, thank the lord). It seems that over this last weekend he had a change of heart and bought a Prius, even after the sales guy tried so hard to sell us on the fact that a hybrid does not get much better mileage than a Camry. Its true he will not be the first hybrid driver in the blackostrino family. He will be the first to drive a Barcelona Red Metallic one.Most of you probably think, well, whats the big deal here. Obviously you don't know blackbrothero. He is a pillar of the community. Until Sarah Palin he voted Republican. He drove a Ford Explorer way before they were cool (and then uncool). He wore a tie to work until recently when his company plunged forward into the 19th century. He is the solid, proactive, thinking, rational, balanced, and calm one in the family. So, If big blackbrothero can drive a red Prius, this world is really changing.