You know there are times as a bloke when you think You know, I'm smarter than this
. Often these times occur on stag weekends such as this one past.
I wonder if the same thought goes through girls heads.
This particular thought occurred as I chased the stag into the wind running full tilt, trying to spray him with champagne quality aromatic sparkling wine. As exactly zero drops of sparkly hit the stag and I ran full tilt into my own spray covering myself in most all of words "pissing, wind & into" passed through my mind shortly after You know I'm smarter than this
.
I couldn't blink for the rest of the day, as every time I did, my eyelids got stuck.
Interestingly, and this has very little to do with the main thrust of the post, is that the reason I was chasing the stag with sparkly, was for acting distinctively unbloke like. I had won the final for the Honda Pilot racing we had been doing. I won, because instead of driving like a bloke (and like I normally do), I drove calmly and serenely. And won. By 0.6s but a win is a win.
The practise and first time trial I drove hell for leather and managed to spin out all the time. I got the nickname "Spinning Aimen" for the rest of the weekend. The second time trial and the finals, I just drove slow and steady and kept a constant pace. No spinning, got through all the cones, even the narrow ones and the tight ones, and my times really improved. To the point I won, and I never win these things.
Slow and steady was all it took. It was less fun, but I won.
1. graybo
I’m sure that there is a lesson there somewhere, but I read this post too quickly to realise what it was.
2. Gordon
I took my time, there wasn’t.
And I’d much rather come last at full pelt than win at granny-speed. I think that says a lot more about me than I care to admit though.
3. Destructor
The ends justifies the means! Winning is all that is important!
4. Matthew
Henceforth, Dan shall be known as ‘Granny’.
5. zed
i read that three times and the only lesson that i learnt is that adrain can’t spell ‘stuck’.
unless he’s still having trouble with his eyes, that is.
6. Adrian
Oops. Fixed. Normal lessons can resume.
7. Lori
Perhaps that’s how I should tackle karting next time I go. Slow and steady instead of fast and angry. I always lose and it’s really frustrating.
The bubbly thingy was funny though :-)
8. Bindy
So, yes, Spinning Eamon, you’re the big man on your Honda Pilot, but er, you didn’t mention how you did shooting the clays, did you?
9. Saltation
“throw caution to the wind, then piss into it.”
10. Daisy
I read zed’s comment three times and the only lesson that I learnt is that zed can’t spell ‘Adrian’ ;-)
11. zed
Daisy - it’s an ongoing joke started by the great Adrain himself ;)