...sleeping awake

Imagine looking at your own headlights and the butt of the car in front of you for more than one hour. On a SUPER STRAIGHT stretch of a road. When I say super straight, I mean as straight as straight could get. I mean it couldnt have gotten straighter than that road we were running on. 9 in the evening, we were a bit tired, the kids have had their shower in Tita Cecile's house already and have even started to relax on the beds with the tv. But we just had to get to Prudencia. It would be more relaxing for everyone to be in Prudencia. By then we'd be travelling for almost 24 hours already. I joked to my sis-in-law that I just might try to stay awake till 3am to make it a 24-hour-day for me, just for the heck of it. Hehehehe. So not! I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow in Prudencia.
Probably due to my subtle insistence, my bro-in-law, Nong Oca, offered to bring us to Prudencia at 8pm. He took his family there earlier that day and wasnt actually planning to go back til the next day because he had been 'assigned' to pick other relatives arriving from Iloilo the next day. But he took us to Prudencia anyway. An hour drive from the city. So off we went, excited and all. the kids have fallen asleep in the car already so it was just Joel and me. It was dark. No lamp posts along the way as we went beyond Bago City. Like, really, no lights. Nada. There werent any stars either. It was dark. All we could see was our own headlights shining on Nong Oca's car in front of us. We counted the minutes. It was an hour drive. I have started to complain that the road was too straight. Are we ever going to make a turn or something? No luck. The road went on and on and on and on. Nong Oca said that he took us to another route coz the road was bad in the usual. i mean, the road was too straight. It was like torture. For one hour, in the dark, no lights on the road side, straight straight straight straight. Joel kept telling me to talk to him. I think I talked to him, in a drunken tortured kind of talk, I guess. At one point I just laughed. I was dreaming gali! Our watches said 10pm, we should have been there. but we were taking the longer way, altho, a better route. I was dreaming already. There was a fax machine by the stick shift. It was ringing so I turned my head. A fax message coming out so I reached out to catch it. The fax machine went POOF! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I WAS DREAMING!!! Joel was laughing coz he saw me reach out. I told him I did not coz I was just dreaming. But he said my eyes were open. DAAANNNNNNGGGGG!!! hehehehehehe. finally we did a right turn. we were there.