The Worst Journey in the WorldAspley Cherry Garrard was the youngest member of the Scott Polar Expedition when he and two others lost their tent to the winds of a night-time snowstorm. They spent hours in temperatures below -70°F stumbling about the ice floes hoping they'd bump into it as it was their only hope of survival.
OK, so that was bad, but we reckon you've had worse. We know how hard you lot are.
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chthonic, Thu 7 Sep 2006, 12:40)
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I have just been reminded of..It was a flight back from Chicago to London. I was flying alone, and as is my usual way, I checked in at the last minute, thus having no choice of seat. Of course, I was flting economy.
As I walked down the aisle, I saw with mounting horror that I will be sharing a row of economy torture with the fattest man I had ever seen. He was *enormous*. You know the seat-belt extensions they give to pregnant women? This feller must have used three of those bad boys in serial! He was easily 30 stone.
Trip highlights:
When the food came along, I had to eat with my right elbow pointed straight up, in order to avoid touching manflesh, but this didn't matter, because after the food was finished, he lifted the armrest that was between us, and about a cubic foot of gut landed on my lap. Ugh.
In his defence, he seemed like a nice chap, and was clearly considerably less comfortable than me. I really felt for his wife though - she was about 8 stone, and must have had reinfoced ribs!
(, Wed 13 Sep 2006, 14:31, Reply)
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