No, not some weak homoerotic phrasing there.
I literally mean… we’re meant to be camping, outside, at the mercy of the elements — but… we now lack a tent.
Because we’re in the middle of ‘the worst storm this year’.
We had a tent 24 hours ago. Then, about 12 hours ago, when I went to check on it, there was no tent. There was evidence of where a tent might have once been — some pegs, some shattered rods from its exoskeleton… but not much else.
Obviously, at 4 in the morning, with driving, horizontal sleet-rain it’s fairly hard to get your bearings. So two of us ended up in the car, where I’m told it got very, very cold — and two of us slept inside, under our computer desks.
Sadly there are no photos… because I didn’t take my camera outside into the hurricane-force winds.
I currently look very dishevelled, and in the words of my cousin: ‘like some kind of 1980s sex machine’.
I’m not sure what we’re doing tonight… maybe I can just sneak into someone else’s tent and pretend I know them…
‘Alright mate! Yeah! Sorry, I’m a bit drunk… great game we had earlier eh? You totally owned those noobs. Anyway, we should get some sleep, yeah.’
Abi
Nov 14, 2009
I hope you know it is no fun without horizontal SLEET RAIN..
I feel for you, it has happened to me before. Bet your hair looks GREAT.
Rachel Cotterill
Nov 14, 2009
Having slept in the car before… I think under the desk sounds like a much better plan! Did you lose your sleeping bag with the tent?
sebastian
Nov 14, 2009
I didn’t actually… but the other 3 did… and they now have bags full of wet clothing. (Again, my clothes are OK — so I’m just under a desk — oh, and no pillow…)
Hair looks great, for a given value of ‘great’…
Sebastian's mother
Nov 15, 2009
You can always come home ya know!!!
Sara Strand
Nov 15, 2009
And then people ask me why I don’t camp. Like really? I’m convinced I was born me in a modern age for a reason. I need an actual roof, a bed, with a down comforter, no less than 3 pillows, my book, my fabulous lamp from Ikea, and my stereo. Good luck- hopefully you survive the trip!
sebastian
Nov 15, 2009
… and no little candles?
Ed Adams
Nov 15, 2009
That sucks dude. Hope you don’t catch a cold.
sebastian
Nov 15, 2009
Nah, my immune system is second to none… but my friend here is sneezing like some kind of elephant. It makes the floors reverberate.
JPP
Nov 15, 2009
I’m confused about the cousin comment. Did she call you a 1980′s sex machine. That could be sketchy.
Good luck with the lack of tent.
sebastian
Nov 15, 2009
My cousin’s a boy.
But just because he’s a boy doesn’t make it any less sketchy, I’m afraid.