Desperate TimesStranded in a hotel in an African war zone with no internet access for two weeks, I was forced to resort to desperate measures. Possessing only my passport and the clothes I stood up in; and the warning "You can catch it shaking hands with a vicar out there" ringing in my ears, I had to draw my own porn in order to preserve my sanity.
Alas, it all came out looking like Coronation Street's Audrey Roberts, but, as they say, any port in a storm.
What have you done in times of great desperation?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Nov 2007, 10:10)
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Not me but.............while at this year's excellent Latitude Festival I witnessed something which most certainly fits the question theme.
After a fun first night of drinking and watching Hitchcock with a live orchestra the next morning me and my mates trotted to the bogs to divest the contents of our bowels and bladders. Now to save me the trouble of describing these toilets someone (not me by christ!) helpfully took a video and posted it on You Tube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqrihaHEJ80
Pretty grim eh?!!
Anyway back to the story. I was getting down to business when I heard an unmistakenly high pitched scream coming from a girl in the same toilet block as myself. What prompted this anguish? Had the girl opened one of the toilet doors to find some spotty indie kid in mid-bowel evacuation? Nope, as she told her friend/compatriot/complete stranger in the next cubicle "i've fuckin' dropped my ticket down the loo!". At Latitude you could get into the campsite with your ticket but had to exchange this for a wristband to get into the festival arena.
"Gutted" think I and upon leaving the toilets stroll back to meet my mates. They too had heard the girl's lamentations and we all had a good chuckle.
What topped the story though happened a couple of minutes later when we saw the same girl run past us, mop in hand, presumably to fish her ticket out of the stinky mire.
Click "I like this" if you think this was a pretty desperate act for her to commit.
(, Sat 17 Nov 2007, 17:33, 2 replies)
grim?the portaloos so full to the brim that one guy searching for a decent one described one as looking 'like bangers and mash', those were grim.
(, Sun 18 Nov 2007, 15:38, closed)
Okay......work with me here. The toilets at Latitude certainly were not the worst I've ever seen but I'm sure as hell wouldn't have wanted to fish my ticket out of the pool of piss, shit, sick and bleach that lied beneath. I also reckon the girl could have got a wristband regardless if she'd explained her predicament to one of the staff. I mean, who'd have wanted to accept the ticket anyway after where it had been?
(, Wed 21 Nov 2007, 14:47, closed)
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