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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What haven't I done is a better question...I've been homeless twice. When I escaped from the wife I moved into a tiny pickup camper with just electricity. I had to bicycle 10km each way to work. I lived for 5 years without running water in a rundown trailer so I could afford to go to university.
In the army I lived 10km from the barracks off post and had no car. I became quite fit that summer bicycling 10k before I got to the bay to do morning PT.
I have lived off of a little ramen and soup for days. and nasty peanut butter and jelly sammiches.
I have driven on extremely low levels of sleep when required and have done this repeatedly.
I ventured 3300 miles across the US in a car I just bolted together 6 hours before leaving twice. Once for a bad clutch. Once for a bad tranny.
I have worked in the fast food industry. I've been a security guard armed and unarmed once in an animal research facility operated by Alcon. They had monkeys, mice and rabbits there. The animals ate better than I did with a minimum wage job. I've delivered telephone books, set up stores, worked on assembly lines, worked in the army and worked in concrete precasting place year round outside where I had to get in the concrete mixer at the end of the night and chip it out with an airhammer.(If the safety interlocks failed it would have been me stew).
I have ducked creditors and dodged paying things when I got behind. I have even had a car repossessed.
I have dug myself out of most holes except for my college debt, car and house.
My car is fairly new, I have a fresh graduate degree I can make money in... MBA and I have a house with a big two car garage, living room and two bedrooms to myself.
What am I most proud of that I have done in desperation? Leave my cheating wife 2 days before our 2nd anniversary.
(, Tue 20 Nov 2007, 2:50, 3 replies)
But like the Guiness (or is it Murphy's)...?
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If you're going to drive more than 3000 miles in a rustbucketyou could at least have done it for a tranny that was a little less obvious.
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Shegetz Chris Kamara's comedy moustache, Wed 21 Nov 2007, 1:42,
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Shegetznice...
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