Okay so Josh tagged me in this photo post thingamajig. And while I don’t usually do the whole tagged post thing I’m desperate for posts I find Josh’s charms irresistible! So here are the rules:
1. Go to your first photo file and pick the 10th photo in it.
2. Tell the story behind the photo.
3. Tag 5 other people to do likewise.
And here is my picture:
This is from the trip to Vermont I went on with my friends Robin, Jenn, and Aaron. We rented a cottage on the water and they had this raft that wasn’t inflated so we took it to a store to get it inflated and this is how we got it home. There’s even a video of us getting it home, the ending of which I will spoil after the video below, so don’t read on if you want to see the video first.
So yeah, the raft had a big hole in it, so it was pretty much deflated when we got back to the cottage. Sad trombone.
Now time for me to tag people!
Chris from Perspectologist
M. Nico from Under the Rosebush
Jake from Hm, What’s That?
David from Limerent Lad
S from Human Nature
I stalked you when I first joined the Punta crew (cuz like myself, you are all so IRRESISTABLE [feat. Jessica "EvErYoNe Is bEaUtIfuL" Simpson]) and I remember rewinding the “That’ll be us” part at the end a MILLION TIMES. HAHAHAH. FUNNY. GOOD JERB!
That was a cute little adventure. Did you patch the raft and try again? Or just drink…
Is this your not-so-subtle way of telling me I need to post more often? :-p
Cute. How come everyone as cute vacation pics except me? Not that mine wasn’t … ummm, interesting (and PG-13 now thanks to photoshop) but certainly no cute story to tell. Sigh. Oh well.
I just checked my 10th photo. Bad and bittersweet memories from the past. Would rather not go there.
M Nico: You and Chris both!!! Mwa ha ha ha!
I remember that video. Funny and sad all at once.
craiggers- i LOVED watching that video again! i remember how much my arm hurt after holding that lame ass raft!
miss you!
I remember this vid so well! Had me cracking up all over. Just seemed like something that would happen to me and my friends, that’s why it was so funny.
Plus, if I recall, it was this same trip that lead to the infamous neon green innertube, beer drinking in the water, shirtless photo.
HUGS…
Anything that ends up with a video like that can’t be all sad trombone.
Poltsky – yep, that would *definitely* appear to be the innertube trip. The original blog post itself has *several* shirtless pix in fact, though sadly you can’t click on any one of them to make it bigger. Sadder trombone
Yes, Ryan, I can see you about to type something filthy about “making it bigger”
Craig, where did you get the background music for your video? Hilarious video. And I’ve been involved in similar cookiness. I had to help a guy move a mattress in much the same way, once. This is the sort of thing one does in one’s 20s.
I’m looking forward to seeing everybody else’s offerings. I’m hoping everybody finds Josh’s (and your) charms as irresistible
When my friend and I were moving mattresses in a car, we didn’t need to put them on top of the car because they were thin twins. It was the final stroke in a prank between us and our third roommate. We took his mattresses to a friend’s apartment. He was too proud to ask where they were, so after a few days, we felt bad and told him.
What happens at 3:26, a contact from the spirit world?
I started working on my tag post. I did the photo thing, and that got me thinking about some aspects of my life at the time of the photo. Leave it to me to turn something simple in to something deep and detailed. Ug. I should be able to finish it in the next few days.
Justin: I believe there is a high(ish) resolution shirtless photo of Craig on Polt’s blog. It was a post from some time ago, and it featured a number of hot shirtless guys, and featured among them was our very own Craig. It is a nice photo, but my favorite shirtless photo of Craig was his post-workout photo from Twitter. His lower abs in that photo looked quite cut, and it showed off his treasure trail nicely. Hot!
Chris — haha, yeah, I noticed the same thing at 3:26
And Chris, Chris, Chris — why EVER would you say “ug” about your penchant for turning things into “something deep and detailed”? I can honestly say that’s one of the things many of us love most about you.
Yes, I remember not only that twitter photo — it made an impression on me when he first tweeted it — but I also remember your previous comments on it and even the comments on his treasure-trail.
I don’t know why I find it so amusing. 
As for you remembering Polt’s post, dare I say that *you* have the “knack”, too? 
Ryan. What can I say. “after a few days”? “a FEW”? I mean, how many are we talking? One night of the schmo sleeping on … what? the floor? the couch? his box-spring? … is pretty damn funny!! Two nights: even more hilarious in a way but already verging on cruel and unusual punishment. Three nights? What constitutes “a few”? LOL Don’t get me wrong: I’m *ALL* for college pranks — I have quite a laundry list myself (both as perpetrator and victim) — but I find myself curious how long this went on before you “felt bad and told him”
(Note also — while in college somebody might come across as “too proud to ask”, a few years older and one begins to think more along the lines of “suffers from severe Aspergers and doesn’t have the social skills” 
But far be it for me to turn the memory of a good college prank into a moment of soul-searching. 
(I’m disappointed, by the way, that you didn’t pick up on my crack about you typing something “filthy” — in particular given that I had very little in the way of non-filthy excuses for clicking on Craig’s — and his surprisingly-good-looking friend Aaron’s — pictures to make them bigger in the first place…)
BTW — did anybody notice that Craig’s voice in the car comes across kind of like a (somewhat faggy) version of Barack Obama? (Or rather, as a (somewhat faggy) version of Fred Amison’s impression of Obama?)
Justin: I believe it was two.
That round started with me realizing that our water heater had a shut off valve while he was in the shower. Apparently, when he came down to turn it back on, he saw our roommate’s laundry and deduced that he was the culprit.
It’s less fun when you set things up like T-ball.
Call me when you get “Tapped”……..Yo!
Yeah, you knew I would go there.
Mark: I did not give into temptation and make that reference myself. I am glad, however, that someone did.
HUGS…
Luv Me Some Polt!
Polt — my sentiments exactly. Though I’m just surprised that it wasn’t Ryan … His capacity for filth appears to be slipping … *sigh*
So, Ryan, are you going to let us in on the intervening rounds between your initial hot-water prank and the mattress prank? And now I get the “too proud” part. Your third roommate wasn’t just too socially inept to inquire why his mattresses were missing: he knew it was in retaliation for intervening pranks.
It *sounds* from your latest post that YOU pranked roommate A, but roommate A blamed roommate B and pranked him. Which one was your friend? Roommate B? (Why do I care? Shouldn’t I be working?)
I turned off hot water on Y, who concluded that D did it and retaliated by replacing D’s desktop with a screen shot of D’s desktop and hiding all the icons. I can’t remember the intervening steps before D and I hiding Y’s mattresses, but one was probably Y shutting down the wireless router followed by me disconnecting the DSL modem from the telephone outlet (which was in my room). We had arrived to an internet stalemate on at least two occasions. In an earlier prank war, Y filled my shared folder with copies of Debbie Does Dallas.