Because it was our
"opening" night at the Rio I had some friends in town. We
all went to lunch and had a good time at the MedCaf. I got
a call from my assistant that Colin had had a 60' Genie
Lift delivered to the house. He wanted to go up to above
the height of the roof and see what the views would be if I
were to build an addition to the Slammer. Well, we rushed
right home and before Colin got there, Scotty and I were
already driving this huge piece of machinery around. It
says all over it not to run it if you don't know what
you're doing and that to Scotty and me is just another way
to write "fun." It took us a long time but we got it
started and we drove it around like freaks and swung
ourselves around in the bucket. We then took it up higher
than the house and took pictures and made jokes. It was
great.
Colin arrived and Scotty and I told him that the controls
had stopped working and we were stuck up there and it was
showtime soon. It was a great joke. Colin believed us and
opened up the bottom part and tried to control it from
there. Then he figured that maybe our controls WERE on and
we were monkeying with him. So . . . he turned our
controls off and we were stuck up there. We begged and
apologized and he gave us control again. We came down and
I went up again with Colin and we took the pictures and
then everyone took turns driving it around and going up and
down.
Here's my point. It cost 200 dollars for this big thing
for 24 hours and it was delivered and picked up. Two
hundred dollars. That means if a bunch of friends were
going to go out to eat at a nice place, they could stay
home, get pizza and rent some big machinery and come in
cheaper and have more fun. I think the biggest fun is
the chance of killing yourself in a really stupid way and
getting the report of it passed around on the Internet. Oh,
it was fun.
Maybe I'll have some people over and rent a bulldozer. How
much fun would that be? Thanks to Colin, we have found new
entertainment. With large machinery and honey badger
documentaries on TiVo we have all we need. It's no longer
a crust of bread, a jug of wine and thou, it's now honey
badger footage, a Genie Lift and well, thou sure ain't
going to miss it.
