After we spent about 12 hours packing up the household and belongings, I mistakenly thought we were ready to hit the road.
Attempting to beat the traffic leaving New Orleans I put our son in his car seat and buckled up myself. My husband then said, where did you pack the lap top?, I need to check a few more things before we go.
I got out of the car, dug around the back seat the handed him the lap top. My husband went back inside while I waited and waited. Silly me, I thought he was checking another interstate route or catch the latest news brief.
After about 20 minutes, I went back into the house to see what he was doing. I was Wrong!, he was checking football stats and making a few quick changes to his line up.
Angrily, I was like come on lets go... He packed it up and for the next 5 hours of driving, I had to hear how great his draft was and how his men will dominate the league, blahlbalhblah, I really don’t care or even hold interest.
To add to the story, once we did arrive at our destination, after midnight, he asked where did I pack his football magazines. When I said, I didn’t pack them among our IMPORTANT things, he blew his top off. He said, What do you mean, I had notes in them and player’s highlighted, etc. They were on the kitchen counter; I can’t believe you didn’t think they were important enough to take with us.
Thank goodness we made it home safe a week later, our home was still in tact, his books were right where he left them, and he WON he first week of the season. As we are keeping our eye on Hurricane Ike this week, my husband has added Football Magazines to the top of list “Things to Bring during an Evacuation�
To all you southern WAFS, take notes, it may save you a whole car ride of hearing about it.

LOL.... aside from the small detail that your lives may have been in danger... your story is hilarious!

I guess it's time for all us "widows" us to update our emergency plans!