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Sunday, June 04, 2006

How To Have An Adventure #47: In Los Angeles

1. Acquire a group of friends.
2. Find a free Saturday.
3. Plan the night before to go to a hip Hollywood restaurant for breakfast.
4. Set the meeting time at 10:30 a.m.
5. Proceed to stay up until 5:00 a.m.
6. Wake up at 10:00 a.m.
7. Skip the shower. You smell fresh already!
8. Arrive at your friends' house.
9. Drive towards LA.
10. Get stuck in world-famous LA traffic.
11. Get lost on world-famous LA streets.
12. Arrive at hip Hollywood restaurant in time for lunch.
13. Mock the pretentious snoblets.
14. Eat your sandwich and savor its taste.
15. Get up to go (after paying your check).
16. Go outside.
17. Notice that your car is about to be up on a tow truck.
18. Plead with the man to lower your vehicle.
19. Listen to him charge you $150 for the back-breaking task of lowering the car's front wheels back to the ground.
20. Say something about extortion as you begrudgingly pay him.
21. Get a call.
22. Learn that your house has been robbed.
23. See a pattern here.

[miffed out]
-brian

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