I like adventures, especially the sort that start off due to a wager or perhaps having a glass of brandy too many. People don't bet each other enough if you ask me. When was the last time you bet something? I mean not in the mechanical process of gambling in a casino, but actually wagered someone that they couldn't eat two dozen eggs or that you could lift them above your head?
I mention this because my new mechanical pocket watch is making me want to take up all sorts of bets. Sadly getting around the world in 80 days is well a bit easy these days, but I'm sure some other sort of suitable challenge can be found. Something with just the right amount of danger and top hats.
I doubt I'll discover it this weekend. I still don't have my replacement bank cards, in typical bank style they delivered them while I was in Spain and now they are somewhere in the mystical void. Still, nothing like a bit of hardship to focus the mind, or at least focus the mind on how much you really don't like the girl who 'borrowed' your coat for an hour with out asking so she could have a cigarette and caused all these issues.
I don't know if I'd even forgive Audrey Tautou for that.
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>but actually wagered someone that they couldn't eat two dozen eggs or that you could lift them above your head?
I'm quite confident I can lift two dozen eggs over my head, Louche. Bet is on! Loser has to beg or coerce the first bucket of fuel for the rally...
I'm still trying to work out how one asks for a bucket of fat from a shop owner.
(psst, Amanda -- better make sure that he's allowing you to use a container to lift those eggs. I think it might be a bit dicey if you just have to hold all two dozen in two hands as you lift....)
I dated someone rather ridiculously wealthy and since I had the opportunity, I bet him a million dollars, since he was the only person I knew who could actually make good on the bet. Sadly, I lost and handed over my one dollar. Feh.
Shhh Bigbouquet I was hoping she wouldn't notice.
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