In 2003 I started to keep a list on my travelogue of the accumulated, hard-won kernels of knowledge that I’d collected while on the road. I abandoned the list in 2004 for reasons that I don’t immediately recall, but it probably had something to do with girls.
I’ve decided to re-start the list here, recycling old entries and adding new ones, in the form of sporadic posts when I feel like it.
Feel free to add your own in the comments sections.
• Do not skip rocks into the sea, while holding a plastic cup of wine.
• Do not sneeze, while holding a plastic cup of wine.
• Do not pee, while holding a plastic cup of wine (ladies excluded).
• Do not run, while holding a plastic cup of wine.
• Do not watch the movie “The Ring,” while holding a plastic cup of wine.
• Do not jump for joy, while holding a plastic cup of wine.
• Do not jump for thrown keys, while holding a plastic cup of wine.
• Do not jump for more wine, while holding a plastic cup of wine.
• Do not walk backwards, at night, on uneven beach, while holding a plastic cup of wine.
• Do not pan cook, with extra grease, shirtless, while holding a plastic cup of wine (once again, obviously, ladies excluded).
• Do not wear the same light blue shirt that you spill wine on, without fail, every single time you wear it, for eight months straight, while holding a plastic cup of wine.
do not read Leif’s blog while holding a plastic cup of wine
Dude, chanced across your writings on a kinabalu website and well, not to exaggerate but you really rock! ok, time to turn in now. be back for more helpings soon.
cheers~
Sounds like someone needs to get you one of my patented plastic-wine-cup holders for xmas this year. Problem solved.
I sense a serious lack of committment to DRINKING the wine here…How did the precious drops come to be left defenseless and alone under such perilous circumstances in the first place? Por favor, bottoms up.
Lucas – good one.
Amelia – Thanks. I’m glad that Kinabalu story is getting a good showing. I suffered extravagantly for that story.
Becky – How about New Years gift? Looks like my NYC visit will happen early in ’08. Very early. Like two or three days. Otherwise there’s always Oakland two weeks after that, assuming we’ve both been invited.
Nora – Valid points. But when you’re sharing the wine with a group of people, you can’t just retreat to a corner and cradle the bottle like I usually do and thus the plastic cup dilemma.