» Useless advice

This may itself be useless advice - at least as far as Piers is concerned
I'm not some rich cnut, in fact i'm a very poor cnut but why not try and get the most out of every day?

I earn enough money to live on and a little bit extra but rather than saving it all for my retirement, house, car, etc I'd rather piss it up the wall doing the things I want to do...which is not working, taking drugs and travelling the world.

Who cares about the future, by the looks of things its pretty screwed anyway
(Fri 20th Oct 2006, 22:08, More)

» The Worst Journey in the World

Longest Journey
Buenos Aires to London via Sao Paulo

Took the best part of 100 hours near solid travelling, I had no money left so barely ate throughout the whole journey.

Low points:

Being told when arriving to check in for my flight that I had to pay a fee, nearly broke down at this point as they were asking for the last of my cash and I still had to navigate home from london once I got there.

Being taken away for questioning about smuggling drugs, I assume this was due to me looking so fucked from the earlier part of the journey that I fitted their profile(they didn't know at this point I'd been to Peru and Bolivia). Luckily I convinced them I wasn't smuggling drugs before they got to the body search.
(Thu 7th Sep 2006, 14:19, More)

» The Worst Journey in the World

Peruvian Buses
I think the hardest journey I've ever done was 25 hours from Cusco to Lima. The majority of the journey was spent on dirt roads; I was sat next to an overflowing toilet(which people still used throughout the journey); I had zero legroom as the seats were designed for people on average a foot shorter than me and to top it off I was unable to speak spanish so spent the whole journey near enough mute.

It could have been worse, most of it was at night so I was unable to see the massive precipices the driver was narrowly avoiding and the bus didn't get robbed by gunmen as happened occasionally on the route.
(Thu 7th Sep 2006, 14:03, More)

» Restaurants, Kitchens and Bars... Oh my!

Essex County Cricket Club
Worked as a barman here but used to sneak in to the kitchens to grab food.

The kitchen was serving the VIP guests who were paying 120£ a head for their food. The catering company relied heavily on temporary staff who because they were temps tended to have no idea how to do the job and didn't give a shit that they didn't know. The VIP's were served food that had been prepared the day before or earlier by staff with no hygiene training whih would then be eaten by staff and re-arranged so as they wouldn't notice, the cutlery also would sometimes just be wiped down rather than washed to save time at the end of the night.

Not as bad as half the stories on here but I'm bitter cause the fuckers fired me.
(Sun 23rd Jul 2006, 13:09, More)

» Pet Stories

Hamster Suicide
Had a hamster who was a master of escape, he lived in a metal wire cage with a hatch on top, he'd quickly learnt that the hatch was easily forced and would regularly escape and spend a few days chewing up the sofas.

To attempt to prevent this habit of escape my parents devised the cunning plan of putting heavy objects over the hatch so as it wouldn't open without their removal.

This hamster must've been fucking strong, came down one morning to find my hamster hanging by its neck. It had managed to lift the weighted hatch and had made a break for it, the moment it had let go to climb out the hatch came down again practically decapitating it.

Lucky me discovered it, I was 5 at the time!
(Fri 8th Jun 2007, 21:29, More)