Of Tents and Tangents...
This time tomorrow, gollum1971 and I will be pulling into Park Foot Campsite.
The last day of waiting is the hardest. I wanna be there yesterday. Which reminds me... gollum1971 spent half of last night trying to convince me that we should set off a day and a half early. The 11PM conversation went a little like this:
Can we go now?
No.
Come on, let's be spontaneous...just get up and go!
My get up and go got up and f***ed off.
Please?
Where would we sleep?
By Lake Ullswater.
Ah. So we can get arrested for pitching a tent on a National Heritage site?
Yep.
Arrested means no holiday.
Okay, we can sleep in the car.
I have 2 busted knees, and the car's too small.
Okay, you can sleep in the trailer.
Well, it's a 5' trailer, and I'm 5'4"...it could work.
If you lie diagonally, there'll be more room.
Okay, but I get the quilt and pillows. You get the car.
Okay. Can we go now?
No.
This went on for about another 20 minutes befoer he conceeded that trying to steal other campers' electric and pitching a 9-man tent in the dark was really not a good idea. Particularly with my night-blindness. I said to him, "So why spend half an hour trying to convince me?". His reply? "We don't argue enough and it's fun!"
There may be something wrong with him in the place where his brain should be.
Me, too, I suspect. :D
The last day of waiting is the hardest. I wanna be there yesterday. Which reminds me... gollum1971 spent half of last night trying to convince me that we should set off a day and a half early. The 11PM conversation went a little like this:
Can we go now?
No.
Come on, let's be spontaneous...just get up and go!
My get up and go got up and f***ed off.
Please?
Where would we sleep?
By Lake Ullswater.
Ah. So we can get arrested for pitching a tent on a National Heritage site?
Yep.
Arrested means no holiday.
Okay, we can sleep in the car.
I have 2 busted knees, and the car's too small.
Okay, you can sleep in the trailer.
Well, it's a 5' trailer, and I'm 5'4"...it could work.
If you lie diagonally, there'll be more room.
Okay, but I get the quilt and pillows. You get the car.
Okay. Can we go now?
No.
This went on for about another 20 minutes befoer he conceeded that trying to steal other campers' electric and pitching a 9-man tent in the dark was really not a good idea. Particularly with my night-blindness. I said to him, "So why spend half an hour trying to convince me?". His reply? "We don't argue enough and it's fun!"
There may be something wrong with him in the place where his brain should be.
Me, too, I suspect. :D