A Friendly Visitation
A longtime friend dropped by this afternoon, a fellow who lives not all that far away but whom I rarely see, and we reminisced about some old adventures. The memories of one in particular will stay with both of us, I suspect, until there's nothing left to remember and no point to remembering anyway. It's been twenty years, and a re-reading of the account reminds me that it might just be the funniest thing I've ever written. If you don't agree, I won't hold it against you; the phrase "you had to be there" most assuredly applies.
But, if you've got ten minutes or so to spare, feel free to jump over and read about how "Chet" and "Natalie" talked us right into a near death experience (or so we thought at the time). We're forever in their debt.
The baby squirrels were in the trees we couldn't bring ourselves to climb, and had we had fitted sheets, we would have made ourselves funeral shrouds.
Like I said, you just had to be there...
Posted by: Eric at December 20, 2005 09:23 PMI can almost say I was there. My Dad and I once flew off to Ireland with our bikes, thinking ourselves to be "cyclists." Training is everything. Our 15-20 mile jaunts had not prepared us for the hills, wind, rain, and 50-70 mile days in Ireland (decked out in lycra and padded bike seats, yes, but we were the odd ones when the locals were riding about in their finest tweeds....caps, knickers, blazers, you get the picture). Your story was very funny...and painful too (I could actually feel your pain...and that DANG WIND...nothing spells defeat quite like the wind)!!
Posted by: Gwynne at December 21, 2005 04:44 PMCycling in Ireland. Color me jealous.
Well, except for the rain. We hate riding in the rain.
I can't remember the last time we had to walk a hill...but the wind can be just as demoralizing today as it was 20 years ago. We try to rationalize it as our hill training, since we have no elevation gain around here (unless you count overpasses on the interstate), but that really never works.
Posted by: Eric at December 21, 2005 08:05 PMi really needed a good belly laugh this morning !
Pride - as i say frequently, this too shall pass, just hopefully not like a kidney stone !
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That is funny, I freely admit but where are the baby squirrels and fitted sheets?
Oh, and the passsing reference to kidney stones significantly mitigated the humor factor. Ouch!
Posted by: Jim at December 20, 2005 09:18 PM