I’m grateful for:
A female friend so cool that when we all crash a campsite at the last minute because the campsite of our choice was full for the night, and the new site is tended by a pretty, friendly park ranger, my friend will say “I bet she gets lonely out here in the park by herself,” thus proving that she thinks more like a man than the men she’s with (who were too busy giving thanks that we found a campsite to consider porn movie scenarios).
The ability to crash a campsite at the last minute because it’s only for Hewlett Packard employees and one of our traveling companions works for HP. It’s a great site, but HP logos plastered everywhere constantly remind the inhabitants of the hand that feeds them. In five years, I believe that visitors to the site will be greeted by a giant hologram of Carla Fiorini that solemnly intones: “Welcome to your campsite. Checkout is by Sunday at noon or we release the hounds. Dell sucks.”
A narrow escape from the Blair Witch. When we came back to the beginning of our starting point for a hike, we saw a deserted, run-down shack--which we could have sworn wasn’t there before. I forced us to backtrack and make sure we hadn’t accidentally taken the wrong trail, and when we came back the shack was still there. I’m pretty sure we were just in a hairsbreadth of having dark powers wreak vengeance upon us.
Overconscientious friends, so that everyone brings too much food and wine and beer and a lot of it is still unconsumed by two in the morning when everyone is still awake and talking and the campfire is a furious mass of orange embers and red coals.
A shower at the end of two days of not showering. A twig flaked off my head, and a chunk of dirt, and a raccoon, and a large shrubbery. And at the end of the shower I put on deodorant and cologne, even though I wasn’t going anywhere that evening, because my body had to learn: “It was all well and good for the weekend since you stunk so bad that you scared off the bears, but you may have to talk to people in a normal setting this week.”
Posted by Greg at 05:24 PM on 09/07/03
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