Thursday, 12 February 2015

50) Half Century

I travelled the short journey north of the border to England's garden shed, Scotland, for a weekend of hardcore banter, drink and adventure in Glasgow. We consumed a decent amount of alcohol the first night and the takeaway of choice was curry. Although the following morning I was still a 4 on the Bristol stool chart, we were all producing foul aromas due to the spicy food. In fact all 5 of the people with me would be worthy guest bloggers.  Upon re-entering the living room where we had all slept, there was an extremely noticeable, repulsive change of smell which I for one was very proud of. Never the less we opened a window to air out the room. Having smelt Glasgow central station I assumed that the smells erupting from the flat would improve the smell of the city.

As the day went on, many beers and Scottish food were piled into my stomach, the killer however came later that night when it was decided that we had to sample the famous pizza crunch (this is pizza dipped in batter and deep fried) so we ordered half a pizza crunch and a deep fried Mars bar each. I enjoyed both. The pizza was good but it didn't improve on the original concept of pizza and it also doubled my cholesterol in one portion, the Mars bar was delicious. Although tasty, finishing the pizza crunch was hard work and we all felt that we had done something terrible to our insides.

The next morning I awoke before everyone  else and decided to go for a morning movement, a combination of excessive drinking and too much stodgy, greasy food made this an interesting episode. I completed the first stage of this movement with ease however I had horrible stomach cramps and as I went to stand up I knew it wasn't over yet, I settled in and just waited for the next wave to come. Wave after wave after wave came as I sat patiently regretting my decision to leave the phone by my sleeping bag. Eventually I was finished and returned to my makeshift bed. When vomiting you go through a phase where you feel absolutely great and the world could not be a better place, this is how my stomach and ring piece felt after this ferocious event. It wasn't until I consulted my chart when I got home that I realised that this was my 50th of the year, I was pleased that the occasion was marked by a memorable episode and would be memorable, I was however disappointed that I was not able to mark this milestone with a ceremony at the time.

The toilet in this flat is one that is designed for fat people as the water is further forward than a regular toilet. This means that when a regular sized person uses it, the rear toilet wall acts as a slide for your wee jobbies, it literally becomes a log flume, however in some cases it is more of a shelf. In my case the flush took care of it with ease but I have it on good authority that my friends was a bit more of a paste than mine and took several flushes to remove from the rear wall. For once it was not me who left the bathroom resembling a bombsite.

As my weekend drew to a close I have a few points I want to relay to the Scottish people
1) frying/deepfrying is not the only way to cook things
2) I will not pay for a 5p carrier bag. I cradled my beers home like a baby and as I dropped one and watched it fall in slow motion, the lack of carrier bag was almost responsible for another bowel movement right there in the street. Thankfully the bottle bounced and remained in once piece.
3) Your supermarkets stop serving alcohol at 10pm. This resulted in me buying more beers than I needed and therefore I drank more than I needed to which inevitably contributed to my excessive wind. 


1 comment: