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April 2003

 

April Showers
by The Question

Spring break is over, and instead of going home to your parents to bilk a few bucks out of them, you went to (fill in your exotic spring break location here) and spent more money than you had planned. Let me summarize your trip, just in case you were too drunk to remember:

  • You forgot to pack deodorant.

  • Location was great and the night life was fun, but it was nothing like the "Girls Gone Wild" video you downloaded off the Internet and you never could quite find those hidden waterfall paradises.

  • You didn't hook up with any locals, and the one person you wanted to get with in the group hooked up with the jerk of the group. When they got into a tiff midway through the trip, you thought you had a chance, but your beloved hooked up with yet another person in the group.

  • You got to hear all about these escapades when the two of you were alone in your room, right before your love interest went out on a date with a cute local.

  • Somebody lost their digital camera.

  • "The couple" in your group made out at every public opportunity possible.

  • Don't worry. They're breaking up next week.

  • One person didn't have a lot of money, so did "alternative activities" which made other members of the group sad. This lead to a group resolution to help out by requiring everybody to pitch in. That little stunt cost you 17 bucks.

  • At one point you wished you had decided to go on “your other friends' spring break.”

  • Somewhere near the end of the trip, you suggested that the group didn't tip the wait staff very well. This prompted your liberal friends to preach about the evils of capitalism, and how the US is oppressing poor third world countries. Slave labor, sweat shops, and "luxury resorts" were synonymously through around as everybody took sides. Thankfully, the heated argument ended just as everybody wrapped up their lobster dinners.

  • The group leader suggested that people weren't really mad at each other, but that the 42 ounce pina coladas that came with the meal were to blame.

  • Everybody tipped extra, which brought the meal total to 10 dollars each person, and everybody walked away full and happy.

  • You didn't study, which made bringing all of your books with you a complete waste. You managed to read for 30 minutes on the return flight just to impress your friends, but you don't remember any of it. Read it again.

  • You regret not having the extra luggage space, since you could have cleaned up in the street market with all sorts of goodies. Your liberal friends, much more enterprising than you, did just that. They justified their purchases as an empathetic attempt to help the locals out--you know, just to hold them over--until US foreign policy changes.

  • As you had to pack up to go back to school, you thought the week wasn't long enough.

All in all, not a bad trip. Welcome back. Don't bother checking your March Madness brackets. You're already mathematically eliminated.

 
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