Buy does this thread sound familiar to me. I was in Cancun a couple of years
ago and went snorkeling at Paradise Island. They made you wear these little
life vests with a strap across the middle of the back so that you wouldn't
drown. Forgot to put on the sunscreen and had a strap mark across my back that
looked way too much like a bra strap mark.....my friends still don't let me
live that one down.
Bobby
Lmacy1211@aol.com wrote:
> Don't know if I should tell this or not - but here goes. Several years
> ago we went on a camping trip up in the mountains. We were near a
> swimming pond. After indulging in some swimming and some beverages I fell
> asleep near the pond. When I awoke I found that I had slept with my arms
> crossed over my stomach. I had the DIver Down look as well. Red on the
> chest, white on the belly and an itty bitty red stripe right at the top
> of my shorts.
>
> So I can't laugh TOO much Thomas.
>
> LArry
> >>>>On 7/28/99 10:18 PM so and so (Thomas James Pokrefke, III) said. (And I
> quote:)
>
> >I just got back from visiting my sister, her husband, and my newly-born
> >nephew (my first such neice/nephew). I elected to take the MGB on the
> >3.5 hour trip to her home. I thought I would share some wisdom and/or
> >humor I gleaned from my trip:
> >
> >1. NEVER, EVER, EVER drive your MGB in a heatwave without a shirt
> >without the prior judicious application of sunblock. Typically, I would
> >advise against shirtless driving anyway, but it was hot, I was driving
> >past cotton fields, and I had already sweated through my t-shirt.
> >
> >I thought it might be cool things off if I drove minus my shirt. I
> >draped my shirt on the seat back (black vinyl seats in Mississippi?!?),
> >buckled my seat belt, and 2 hours later? Voila!
> >
> >Now I am a walking 'diver down' flag. You know what I'm talking about,
> >the white diagonal stripe on the red background.
> >
> >Yes, ladies and gentleman, I got a nice lobster-red sunburn on my chest
> >and arms, except where the seatbelt crossed my chest. My SO hasn't
> >stopped laughing yet.
> >
> >2. One day, I'm going to write a book about billboards in front of
> >churches. The one I saw today should probably get 1st place:
> >
> > "And you think it's hot here?"
> >
> >3. My trip home was better than the first leg: driving on empty
> >two-lane country back-roads in the early evening after a thunderstorm.
> >There was an almost phsychadelic (sp? - you can tell I never did drugs)
> >yellow haze over the landscape. T'was very rewarding.
> >
> >Thomas James Pokrefke, III
> >1970 MGB
> >pokrefke@netdoor.com
>
> Larry Macy
> 78 Midget
>
> Keep your top down and your chin up.
>
> Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
> macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
> System Manager/Administrator
> Neuropsychiatry Section
> Department of Psychiatry
> University of Pennsylvania
> 3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
> Philadelphia, PA 19104
>
> In a world without walls or fences, what use do we have for windows or
> gates?
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