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lapucelle

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5. On my first family road trip when I was a little girl,

Reply to htuttle (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 13, 2018, 09:12 PM

Aug 2018

my mom told my dad to look for a gas station with a "rest room". I had never heard that term, so I pictured fainting couches and lace curtains. (Would have been a perfect place for...um..."checking the oil".)

Boy, was I disappointed.