It’s 22 degrees celsius, breezy with some clouds. I’m sitting at Mozart’s coffeehouse writing some papers due tomorrow for school but it comforts me to know that my classmates are suffering through 2 degree weather in London.
Then, as I was working outdoors by the lake on my wireless laptop, a bird shat on me. Left shoulder. Not too big but it stained my white Club M shirt. My thought was, “well at least it wasn’t my laptop.”
Hm. I have interesting priorities.
I’ll bet that if you had faster reaction time (like Spiderman), you would have ripped your shirt off and wrapped your laptop with it. Or you could have executed a marvelous high kick to rebound the doody back up at the offending winged bomber. Or you could have flung your laptop in the air to safety, taken the hit on your shirt, and dove to safely cradle your airborne tablet.
Or you could have just dodged the dropping with a sidestep.
Posted by Ben on 11 March 2004 @ 10pm
On priorities: I’d take bird shit for a day of heat and sun.
Posted by Joshua Kaufman on 12 March 2004 @ 11am
Hmmm… I wonder about that. Taking bird sh.t for a day of heat and sun. If it were a guaranteed thing, such as considering being sh.t on as a toll to get into the good weather, I don’t know if I would appreciate it. Then, for 3 days of sun, you’d have 3 days of stains. And then it depends on how early or late in the day the assault occurs. Would you want to go from 11am to 5pm with a blob on your shoulder?
Posted by Kevin on 16 March 2004 @ 8pm
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