#sleepover!!

The one in which Mizuki did my job for me (it looks like she got the rest of n25 too LOL)

Little does Mizuki know... she's next >:]

HELP I DONT KNOW HOW TO DRAW SHOE SOLES/GRIPS😭

When I was in high school - which is longer ago than I think it was at this point - my family and I went on an epic road trip around several states out in the US West, including South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado.

Because I am good with directions and geography I was assigned the job of navigation. Unfortunately, all we had in terms of maps were state-level maps....which are a bit light on details about places to eat, side streets, etc.

Thus, when we started driving from South Dakota through to southern Nebraska all we could do was hope that there would be some place to eat along the way.

So we start driving through western South Dakota and Nebraska - and let me tell you - ain't nobody living there. You can drive for a half hour and see like one house and a bunch of cows. This was great fun for my sister and I because we had never seen anywhere so flat or so treeless.

Well, it was fun until everyone started to get hungry. Unfolding my state level map as best I can in the back seat of the cramped rental car I proclaim "There's only one town that we'll reach before four o'clock this evening, but it's basically the only town in northwestern Nebraska, so there should be a restaurant!"

There was. It had that look of "small town diner slowly fading into non-existence" that is pretty typical of restaurants in rural towns fading away. My mother was very suspicious, but, as I said....this was our only chance at food aside from Skittles for the day.

We go in, find a table, get some menus, start perusing them. The place is obviously run by a family. It is also obviously located next to the cattle market - they have fly traps and all but there are still flies EVERYWHERE. My mother (who would really have liked to have been born a middle class Victorian lady) was mildly horrified. My father repeats that this is the ONLY restaurant for HOURS.

It is at this point that the grandmother of the establishment appears, flyswatter in her hand, apparently the last form of fly control this place had.

She was also the most effective form of fly control.

That woman did not miss ONCE. Every single swing of that fly swatter was a killing strike.

And you knew she did not miss, because after each THWACK of the fly swatter descending on a hapless fly, she neatly swept the carcass off of the table she'd hit, and into her open palm.

She made her way around the room in this manner, swatting flies on the tables, chairs, windowsills, etc.

My mother was looking queasy.

By the time she reached our table that lady had an entire handful of flies, which my sister and I thought was awesome. We had never seen anyone that accurate with a flyswatter in our lives. Nor had we ever seen that many dead flies in one location in our lives.

Bring on the hamburgers, for us it was dinner and entertainment.

It was at that point that my mother requested to go back to the car and have skittles for lunch, but was in the end convinced to eat something.

The food was delicious, none of us got sick, and none of us have ever forgotten the Fly Swatting Grandma of Nebraska.

omg sorry I missed this one last night! But HAHAHA omg the fly swatting grandma of Nebraska that’s wild 😂 amazing, what a hero. can I be her when I grow up?

for real tho getting stuck in the middle of nowhere is the worst, I was driving the other day by myself and was supposed to be on the same road for 40 miles with no real exits, and I had to pee so bad I was *this close* to squatting on the side of the road. I finally found a store I could run into, but sadly there were no fly swatting grandmas lol

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