(Author’s note: The song doesn’t match, but I couldn’t find one for “You died of dysentery”. Otherwise, Enjoy!)
© Danny Bowman
I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight
by Miles H. Rost
“This is not fun.”
“Oh, come on, Dave. This is the adventure of a lifetime! To really live and breathe as your ancestors did all those years ago.”
“All my ancestors died of dysentery, Rachel. Only one line was able to make it.”
“But, your family did make it to Oregon didn’t it?”
“Yeah, but most of them died of dysentery!”
“I get that…I really do. But that doesn’t matter because you’re here now. And you’re living as they did.”
“When I said I wanted to play Oregon Trail, it was the computer game.”
“Oh…Uh… Check supplies again?”
Music and Fiction 
Dear Miles,
I’m glad you couldn’t find a song called “You died of Dysentery.” I can only imagine…
Shalom,
Rochelle
“It’s the Oregon Trail…and you just died of dysentery. You made to South Pass, but your death was scary…”
Put it to a swing beat, and you may have something.
That’s what happens when you team up with a nerd 🙂
Or when she hijacks you and takes you somewhere you don’t wanna go.
Living in Idaho, I’m fairly close to some portions of the Oregon Trail including the Three Island Crossing re-enactment at Glenn’s Ferry as well as a number of other nearby sites in western Idaho and eastern Oregon. You don’t really have to live it out to experience the history.
Yeah, but tell that to Rachel. ^_-
The past wasn’t as romantic as some make it out to be. I love the humour although I doubt a dysentery song would have become a chart hit.
Metallica might have been able to pull it off. (HA!)
😀
Funny, funny! This made me think of the Oregon Trail too. I would much rather play the game 😉
That is exactly where I was going with this!
Haha! This was good fun. Thanks for the laughs, Miles.
Well, when you see distant mountains and a wagon trail, and you were a child of the 80s, there’s only one conclusion: Oregon Trail!
I enjoyed the humor in your story! Good one!
Thanks! I love the humor that I sometimes am able to bring!
I can’t help wondering whether Dave and Rachel are really suited for each other! 😉
Makes you wonder…^_-
ha ha! 🙂
Thanks for stopping by!
Oh dear! This is so funny.
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Thank you! ^_^
lol Yep, you can’t die of dysentery while playing a computer game (or let’s hope anyway).
Oh you very well could, it’s just rarer than normal. 🙂
Good thing they weren’t try to go through the Donner pass in winter. Nice funny take on the prompt.
If that was the scenario, I would have used “Timothy” by The Buoys.
Haha! Loved it. No one wants to die of dysentery out in the middle of nowhere. Hmmm….I suppose no one wants to die of dysentery period. :o)
It’s a pretty crappy disease. XD
Yes… very glad you could not find a song about dying from dysentery! And this was a hoot. No wonder I stay away from computer game nerds…
Hey! 😛
😂
This is wonderfully funny. Dysentery is no joke, of course, but this story made me laugh.
If you played the Oregon Trail as a child in the 1980s, it would be. XD
Well, in the 1980’s I was in my mid-30’s, but I do remember the early version of that game. Pretty tame compared to the things that are available now.
I loved this and had a real laugh at the last line. Miles, this was great.
xx Rowena
It’s the most useless tool in the menu, and the one that gets the most laughs.
I was born in ’85, and remember the game in the mid-90’s (and a little in 2002-2003). I don’t remember dying of dysentery, but do remember trying to take a shortcut and not making it. (I read that they use the term “Oregon Trail Gemeration” to refer to older Millennials and the youngest of Gen X.)
You probably broke an arm, or got cholera. I was hoping there would be better ones, but eh…XD
Ha! Not so romantic ‘I died of dysentry tonight’. Nice crossed wires dialogue there
Shows just where a person’s true heart lies. In a wagon train. By an old fort. On the Oregon Trail.
🙂
If you played the Oregon Trail as a child in the 1980s, it would be.