Unexpected Good FortuneTravelling through Seattle a good 15 years ago, I remembered an old friend I used to blow up Action Men with. We were bored, nothing to lose , so I looked him up in the phonebook. He was the only one of that name in there. "Come and stay," goes he.
Me and my mates were living in a car at that point so a bed was a novelty. After searching for a while, we rock up to a very posh mansion on Puget Sound with its own Helipad. "Come flying," goes he.
Has your luck held out recently?
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chthonic, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 18:43)
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Always take a good book on your honeymoon.Just before I was about to leave on my (first) honeymoon, a package showed up in the mail -- the disks and manual to some BBS* software I'd ordered. I threw it in my suitcase and headed off to what turned out to be a three-week-long marriage, and my spouse's life was spared only by the good fortune of his greatly disillusioned bride having brought something interesting to read. We packed up and went our separate ways a few days after we arrived back home. Oh well.
Fortunately for me, the BBS software led to an acquaintance (albeit long-distance) with the people who wrote it, and that led to a job offer as a technical writer, which led to a fabulously delicious affair with one of the tech support guys, which led to an altogether more satisfying second wedding, honeymoon and marriage which is still looking like the most enjoyable and rewarding thing I ever did, 14 years later.
* Bulletin Board System (BBS), the forerunner of the interwebs. Click below if you remember Wildcat!
(, Sat 16 Sep 2006, 4:01, Reply)
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