Wally We never tire of your stories
Mike -----Original Message----- From: CnC-List on behalf of Wally Bryant via CnC-List Sent: Thu 26/06/2014 12:02 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List getting seasick (and yes more of my drivel) Jake wrote: > Some side effects can be severe. <snip> Okay, here's a Stugeron side effect story. July of 2010 I was up at Bahia de Los Angeles (28.954N 113.548W) and I don't want to say it was rustic but the village was proud of having had electricity for four years, and getting diesel meant a two mile hike carrying jerry cans in 105F sunshine. I had invited a friend I'd known for 25 years to drive down (with a pickup load of spare parts) and go cruising the nearby islands for a week, doing some diving and snorkeling and fishing. He wasn't a sailor, but I don't need crew. He did send an email asking if he could bring a friend, and I said 'sure, but three is about all that can fit on the boat right now.' Apparently he didn't get the memo. Imagine my surprise when four guys showed up, three of which were primed for a party weekend in Cabo San Lucas. I was thinking 'this is going to be very interesting.' One guy asked 'where's the nearest t_t_y bar' and I said 'Ensenada, you drove through it about 400 miles back.' Eventually I got them on the boat (it was like herding drunken cats) and got under way. Fast forward 36 hours, after two guys decided to have a food fight in the cockpit (which I stopped by explaining that we were 100 miles from the nearest place where I could wash the boat down) and we'd swamped the dinghy (which actually *can* carry five grown men but only if you don't make any sudden moves) and two of my shot glasses were overboard. One guy admitted that he couldn't swim, which is a drag because the only way to get comfortable there in July is to jump overboard. I knew an island with a little two foot deep tidal pool, so I headed there. I explained that it was full of baby sting rays, so shuffle the feet. He didn't have a good time. I told him that uric acid would relieve the pain. He told me that he had always hated boats and the ocean, and even when he lived in a beach town never actually touched the water. I refrained from asking what he was thinking when he decided to spend time with a guy who lives on a boat on the ocean. I asked them all what they wanted to do next, and there was a universal '*I wanna go home*' with the exception of the friend that I had actually invited, who was feeling pretty bad about the situation. He knew that we could have had a great time diving, snorkeling and fishing, but he'd blown it. So we motored back to the truck. Here's the Stugeron part of the story. We're motoring in dead calm, with the sea like glass. One of the guys says 'I'm feeling seasick' and my first reaction was to laugh and say 'dude, you don't know what seasick is...' but I'd been mollycoddling those boys for long enough that I was just tired of it. So I told them where the Stugeron was, in the medicine cabinet in the head. It was like watching bait fish feed on puke. I'm serious, it was dead calm with sea like glass. After they'd passed the Stugeron around, the non-swimmer asked 'Should I take TWO?' At which point I made an executive decision and decided to mess with this guy's head. I explained that Stugeron was banned in the USA, and I had to get it through a Canadian company that exported it from Europe. (*the joke starts here..*) The reason that it was banned in the USA was because it works by constricting blood vessels in male genitalia and sending the blood to the inner ear. One pill will prevent seasickness but will also prevent the man from achieving manhood for two weeks. If one takes two pills, then the blood constriction in the genitalia will be too great, and will create a gangrenous situation that can only be resolved by surgical removal of the genitalia. So they gave me my Stugeron back, and I put it back in the medicine cabinet. Wal PS. Don't ever play Dominoes with me. I tried to tell these folks today that I just wanted to have fun, but they insisted that we play for money. I really just want to have fun, but if you want to take my money I can only smile... -- s/v Stella Blue www.wbryant.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
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