How it All Began

The Problem...

It all began many years ago, on a very exhausting evening in Ohio.  My boyfriend and I were in an unfamiliar town, trying to deal with a particularly stressful family emergency.  When it was time to try and relax and settle into the hotel for the evening, my boyfriend decided he would like to kick back with some Corona.

The Search...

We headed to the liquor store and picked up some nice, cold Corona.  What goes best with Corona?  A lime!!!  The liquor store didn't have them, so we figured we'd hit the local grocery store on the way back to the hotel.  Unfortunately, the first problem in this town was that all the grocery stores seemed to close up tight at a ridiculously early hour.  We went to one, then another, but they were closed.  Then we made the rounds of the local convenience stores.  Not a lime to be found.  At this point, we had spent way too much time on this.  We were so tired and emotionally drained from events earlier in the day, that instead of getting angry over this, we both thought it was extremely funny.  Each fruitless stop on our escapade (pun intended) just seemed more and more ridiculous.  I think it provided just the comic relief that we needed that night.


The Solution...
Eventually we stopped at a gas station.  They didn't have fresh limes, but they did have lime juice in those little, lime-shaped bottles.  This was as good as we were going to get, so off to the hotel with the prized liquid.  I asked my boyfriend how it tasted with the lime juice.  His reply was "Eh, not as good as a fresh one."


Conclusion...
So now, when we have a difficult day trying to find something or somewhere, we may say "I went searching for a lime today."  Or, "I was looking for such and such today, and they were all looking a bit green."  A small inside joke that helps diffuse the frustration of the situation.  A small inside joke...that I have now shared with the world.