to find one of those emergency phones. While they were walking, some lady pulls over and offers to give them a ride to a gas station, so they tell me to stay with the car. So I stay with the car and after a while, Tyler shows up. Luckily, he tells me he’ll wait with me until they show up with the gas. Now, I’m assuming that this lady is bringing them back. But then Natalya calls me and says, “The lady just dropped us off.” She pulled up to some random gas station and told them to get out and drove off. So now they’re stuck at some gas station that we don’t even know where it is, and I’m stuck with my car—this wasn’t even a rental car—and I’m stuck there with Tyler Reks and the guys riding with him. So I jump in their car to go get some gas in a jerry can, drive back to my car to fill it up, and by this time it’s already after ten thirty. Now I’m filling up the car and gas is spilling out all over the place. Natalya had just bought me a pair of brand-new Puma shoes for my birthday, and when I get to the hotel at eleven thirty at night, I realize that my shoes are completely ruined from the gasoline. All because I tried to drive with no gas. It was a long, long, long, long drive to Miami that night. Then I went on to wrestle Cryme Tyme twice the next night, and that’s even worse than the drive.
The Bicker Twins
Nikki Bella
One time Brie and I were driving through Reno, and we love to sing and dance in the car, and we were blasting songs from the eighties. I had an open water bottle and some of it got on Brie while I was dancing, so she turned around and poured her whole water bottle on me. All of a sudden, I’m dumping the rest of my water bottle on her, and we got into this full-on water fight while we were driving. By the time we made it to the gas station to fill up, we were both dripping wet and it was freezing cold. We were already in our Diva outfits, lace and heels, so we had people staring at us. Here we are, twin Divas walking up to the gas station attendant dripping wet on a cold night. He was just staring at us, like, “What the hell is happening?”
But Brie and I always fight when we’re on the road. We’re like husband and wife the way we bicker the entire time. That’s why people like The Miz like to travel with us. I remember this one time I had the GPS in my hand and Brie was driving. So she asked me, “What am I going to make?” And I told her, “Make a right.” Two seconds later, she’s like, “Wait, what am I going to make?” And I tell her again, “You’re going to make a right.” Two seconds later, I swear, she asks me again, so I start yelling, “YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE A RIGHT!” And what does she do? She makes a freakin’ left! I was like, “Bri-anna!” and I just started yelling. So now The Miz, all the time he walks up to us with this voice that he does and says, “Bri-anna! No way! Just shut up, just shut up.” He does all these impressions of us all the time, and it’s all because Brie doesn’t know her rights from her lefts.
Living “The Life”
Cody Rhodes
Three in the morning, can’t sleep, sometimes you have those long, three-hundred-mile drives and you’re on the road at all hours of the night. One game we like to play is with the iPod receivers inside the car. We call it “The Life” game, where you turn the radio all the way down and one person shuffles the iPod until someone shouts stop. When someone says stop, you turn the radio up and whatever song that is playing, that is the song that describes your life for that day. It’s always funny. The last time for me, I turned it down and as I cranked it up, the song was “You Belong with Me,” by Taylor Swift. So it had no actual reference to my life, but it was my Life song for the day.
This is a game that Ted DiBiase, Randy Orton, Beth Phoenix, Santino Marella, and I like to play. I think the best of the best is when Randy got an instrumental once. We were all like,
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