I really should be in bed, but I wanted to post this...plus I had sweet tea like 3 hours ago, so I am wide awake.
This weekend I spent with my in laws in Kansas City. Sunday afternoon my mother and father in law(Cindy and Dan) were invited to a swim party then motorcycle ride at a friend's house. After much negotiating and one indiscernible text, we figured out that we were all going to go swim (even though it was raining at the time) and that if they all went on their ride, that me, my sister in law and nephew(Mallory and Brodie) would just leave then. Or stay and raid their fridge, whatevs.
So after we do all this prep for it, we are notified that the party planner did not bother to check with the pool owners to see if they were down. Pool owners were not down, so the whole thing was cancelled.
Well, I had it in my head that we were swimming. And as luck would have it, the sun came back out. So Mal and I started digging around to find somewhere to swim. After about an hour of brainstorming, we decided we should contact the Paulsen's to see about swimming in their pool. I hadn't seen them in a while anyway, so it sounded perfect to me. But how do we go about inviting ourselves over to someone's house? Well, if it were me, I would very discreetly say, "can I come over and go swimming?" But no....Dan was in charge of this task. *sigh*
So Dan sends a random text to Mike (Paulsen) and just says: "You home?"
To which Mike replies, "Yeah. You?"
At this point, Mal, Cindy and I are convinced that this was a wast of time because we are never going to get anywhere with this kind of dialog. But Dan assures us that he is talking "in code" and that he will get the invitation. There was much laughing and rolling of eyes at this point.
Dan's next step in his amazing invitation-getting plan is, "Yep."
So Mike says, "Cool."
Mind you, the whole time, every single text reply that Dan is getting he holds the phone up in triumph and shows the whole room that there is a new text. Then he opens his phone and adjusts his view (old people) to read, then tells us with a huge grin on his face what Mike has said. The hilarity of this whole thing cannot be conveyed in text.
When the "cool" response came we were sure that we just weren't going swimming at all. Dan replies with the epic, "Too cool?" I can't make this crap up. Two middle aged men, texting like 14 year old girls.
And somehow, out of nowhere, Mike says, "Can I borrow the keys to the Harley, Dad?"
I cannot tell you how thoroughly confused we all were at this response. All of us but Dan. He made it seem like this was all part of the plan. You know..."The Code."
So Dan replies with, "Trade for a dip in the pool?"
"Sure, come on over."
I still don't know how it happened. But we went swimming. I am not at all convinced of this supposed code. I'm pretty sure it was dumb luck on Dan's part. Either way, it was hilarious.
