Now if you have spent some time with Glenn you know that when he downs a bottle of wine he gets two things:
1. Purple teeth and lips
2. Really shitty ideas
As our departure grew nearer Glenn convinced himself that it would be beneficial for us to try to sneak onto a different ferry line that was going to a different destination. He vehemently spewed the wonders of this plan, he insisted that if worst came to worst we would pretend like we had made an honest mistake and wait for our real ferry. Also, the different destination, St. Malo, was apparently really nice and closer to Paris than Le Havre.
I was the main detractor from this plan and I struggled to shoot it down as he slowly gained the half-assed support of the others. It really sounded like they were going to commit to that shit. Once again, he had the wine in him so he kept saying things like "St. Malo is closer to France" which Adam paraphrased well as "France is closer to France than France".
For some reason he eventually gave up the idea and it seemed that things were going to go as they were supposed to. I picked up Joel's gigantic map of Europe to check just how far away Le Havre was from Paris. I also checked out where Glenn's fantasy destination, St. Malo was.
Just look at the fucking map.
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I'd blame the wine. It makes everything seem... better. Maybe that's a good reason not to blame the wine...
No.. Glenn is the fucking daddy of directions. Or should I say Christopher Columbus.
i definitely would have trusted glenn. plus... st. malo is close to paris in a vertical comparison. that has to mean something somehow. by the way all of you...i was at a party a few nights ago and they played ante up....some kid flailed his hands everywhere and sang it....mirror image of glenn
Fucking LesRumRight
Haha, I told you guys about the time that Robert and Glenn called me last year asking for directions to Garfield Bay right?
Okay, I know it sounds a little ridiculous but here are my reasons for this plan, yes there was wine involved but I developed this plan at least 3 hours after I drank the wine which had little effect to begin with..
Reasons for plan:
1. We would be taking a different ferry out of portsmouth. The ferry we were scheduled to take was from the LD lines (british) and the ferry we would be stowaways on was a Brittany ferry (french). This doesn't sound like a big deal but I have ridden on both of these in the past and the difference is astonishing. On the Brittany ferry, the food is better, there is live music and dancing, and a place to sleep for the night. LD lines.. Pictures provided:
Brittany Ferry:
http://www.frenchentree.com/france-brittany/images/mv_bretagne.jpg
http://static.hospitalityline.co.uk/images/originals/brittany-ferry-inside-604.jpg
http://static.hospitalityline.co.uk/images/originals/brittany-ferry-berth-606.jpg
LD Lines.. We were given two choices of sleeping accomodations; chair or floor.
We chose floor.
2. If this plan did not work, we would be back in the ferry terminal sitting exactly how we were three hours before our actual ferry left. Not a big deal.
3. St. Malo Vs. Le Havre
Look at the fucking map?
Le Havre:
http://www.challenge-int.fr/images/images_fr/lhport.jpg
St. Malo:
http://www.saintmalofrance.com/saint-malo.jpg
http://www.brittanyferries.ie/media/gallery_images/h/q/L_St%20Malo%20Bretagne.jpg
http://www.sloley.net/1988/121_020.jpg
Brendan, look at the fucking pictures..
Oh, one more thing.. Speaking of "direction daddy" Robert is the king of going to division street no matter where the hell we going to in sandpoint.
This is an actual situation.
Robert and I and some other people decided to go to a movie at the sandpoint cinima before it was closed. I was riding with robert and he fucking drives all the way to division from my house only to go back through downtown nearly the same we left it. Keep up the good work :)
Lets not be unfair to Le Havre.. here is another, perhaps more accurate picture.
http://www.mjausson.com/2004/img/may2004Normandie/06lehavre.jpg
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