Decisions, decisions

My little brother is slated to head down to Texas on Friday to see the OU/Texas game with an aunt. However, her father is having surgery this weekend and she doesn't want to be out of town, in the event something goes wrong. She has asked me to take my bro down there for the game.

Most of you are saying no brainer, but there's so much going against me on this one.


I'm not an admirer of driving in traffic for long periods of time, yet I'm told the standard three hour drive will turn into a five hour drive with the mob of Okies heading to the Cotton Bowl.

More than driving for extended periods in traffic, I loathe driving in the rain for a long time, and there's supposed to be plenty of it in the region over the next few days. So I can maybe look forward to five hours of driving in the rain.

Even more than traffic and rain, night driving for any lengthy duration chides me pretty well. So throw all three of the above together (traffic, rain, darkness), and we have ourselves what can only be a fairly terrible scenario.

I can't imagine even attempting to take a five hour drive down there Saturday morning when the game starts at 11am (thus the likely night-driving). I simply must head down there Friday night and get a room somewhere. But how could I possibly get a room anywhere remotely in the vicinity of the game on such late notice? It seems unlikely.

Throw in the fact that, though my brother and I get along, he's sixteen years younger than I, so it's not like we relate on a high level or anything. So I'd expect the conversation to be thin after the first hour or something.

And lastly, let's not forget that in all my years in OK, I've only recently gone to a game in Norman, and I didn't even get to see the game because I was working the concessions. So why on Earth would I want to throw myself into the mother of all OU games, in a whole other state nonetheless?


I'm thinking I need to bail on this one. But I'm not sure there are options aside from me, so there's some level of pressure. I can't say I like being in this predicament.


Anyone want to take my brother to Texas?

Anyone?




Okay, that was mostly in jest.


Mostly.



(anyone?!?)