Both of my sisters and I take an annual trip somewhere together and Mollie plays an important part in that trip. She treks around Europe and Asia (OK, the Asian side of Istanbul) in her Texas Tech shirts asking everyone directions in English. This is so annoying the first day but as time goes on you really just need to put down your back pack and it grows infinitely more tolerable. Thank goodness someone will ask directions for you and allow you to show disapproval of her English by making mildly disgusted looks while standing behind her. She usually doesn't even get angry.
Then again, you have to deal with her most sinister side. If you ever come across a modern-day evil mastermind, he or she was probably an apprentice to my sister Mollie. One year she bought herself a t-shirt that said "Mom's Favorite" and held on to it for four months. Four months this plan lie in wait! She kept the shirt that long so that she could casually throw it on as pajamas in front of me and pretend that our mom had bought it for her and that she assumed all three sisters received one. She just casually said "Oh I feel so bad about not wearing this since mom gave them to us, I'm glad I'm getting a chance to wear it now." You may be thinking, I guess that is smart of her...but evil genius? Come on! Well I tell you, friend, she waited until the sixth night of the trip, as though it was her last clean sleep shirt. She sat on that gig for months and then was totally fine holding it for another week. Evil!
Well Molls has finally booked a honeymoon (she and her husband were married in July.) They are going to Singapore and Bali. I am so jealous, but not as much of Mollie as I am of her husband Robert who will get to witness Mollie's attempted communication skills in a whole new part of the world. I hope he takes video.
There once was a traveler named Mollie
Who will never be fluent in Bengali
Spends her time overseas
Yelling "C-A-N Y-O-U H-E-L-P M-E?"s
Next she's taking her Tech shirts to Bali.
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