Lakeland was asleep in the back seat, and I had a few treasured moments of time to be alone with my thoughts, which I used contemplating the boundless beauty of the earth. I had gratitude just pouring from my being.
During this unhurried drive west**, I had one reoccurring thought; one question that's been nagging me for, if I'm really honest, years. It was something I had never shared with another soul, something that I had wanted to work out on my own, eventually.
But after so much time had passed, and I'd found myself unable to navigate this irksome desire to understand to a place that felt resolved, I called the one person I usually talk to about these deep, unanswered quandaries; someone who can always render a new point of view, or calm my questions, or put things right in my world.
Here's the conversation:
Ring, ring...ring, ring...
Seth: Hey, babe.
Me: Hey. You got a minute?
Seth: Sure, what's up?
Me: Well, I'm driving, and thinking, and I have a question for you.
Seth: OK.
Me: So like, when MC Hammer said that he was "Too legit, too legit to quit", what exactly did he mean by that? Did he want to quit? Or did he not want to quit? I just cannot seem to get a grip on this. What did he MEAN BY THAT?
Seth (so completely unfazed by my asking about a wholly obsolete rapper who hasn't been in the peripheral of any one person's thoughts for at least two decades, who responded as if my question were anticipatory, who might as well have just been thinking about MC Hammer himself, answered definitively and without a moment's hesitation): Yeah. He meant, like, "Oh, what's up fools? You want me to quit this gig? Well, guess what? I'm not going to! What I'm gonna do is make millions of dollars, and then I'm gonna flaunt it all over the place." And then, you know, I'm going to lose the whole wad. Only he didn't say that last part out loud. Does that help?
Me: Yeah! Well...kind of. So if I said that I was too legit to, say, do the dishes, would that mean that I had to do the dishes? Or that I didn't really have to do the dishes? Or...?
Seth: It means that you wouldn't have to do the dishes, but you'd still do the dishes, and then be like "Damn right, I did the dishes. I do what I want."
I believe that this exact type of conversation, and the many we have had, and will have in the future, is one of the reasons we got married. Because he never knows what thoughts are rolling around in my head and because I have no doubt that he has the answers.
**Yeah...I don't actually know what direction I was driving. I'm assuming west, because we didn't end up in the ocean, which I believe is east of where I live, and it didn't seem to be colder, so probably not north, and when we arrived at our destination, everything was not covered in gravy, so maybe not south.
