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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Bacchus7 on December 20, 2008, 12:27:00 PM

Title: What Should I Do?
Post by: Bacchus7 on December 20, 2008, 12:27:00 PM: So, I'm at the Boston airport. My flight to Denver was delayed so much that my connection in Denver was impossible. There are no flights with seats available going home from Denver within the next three to four days. So I scrapped the Denver route, and am now flying to San Fran. and then home roughly twenty-four hours from now. I don't have money for a hotel, my phone's broken, I'm stuck with my two outsize bags, and I don't know anyone in Boston. The next twenty-four hours will be spent in the airport, although not in any of the gated areas as I can't go through security with my bags. There is no carpet, and I have not found any power outlets. I have 2 hours and 50 minutes of battery life remaining and 2 months and 29 days left on this 9.95 boingo account steal. What are my options? I'm still in the denial phase, so don't feel bad about the snarky or useless responses I know are coming from you guys. "If ya can't laugh at yourself...".
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: T-Short on December 20, 2008, 12:30:42 PM: your best course of action in this situation is to keep posting on forums.

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Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on December 20, 2008, 12:40:20 PM: - Use your laptop minutes sparingly
- Take some naps to kill a few hours
- Wander around the city a bit if the bags aren't too much of an inconvenience.
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: Don Flamenco on December 20, 2008, 12:46:10 PM: sell your laptop, buy some cocaine. snort the cocaine.
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: Brehvolution on December 20, 2008, 01:04:10 PM: Try to find an internet cafe. Get skype and put a few dollars on your account. Then you can call people for very cheap.
Good luck to you.
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: TVC15 on December 20, 2008, 01:13:33 PM: My condolences. Boston is one of the shittiest parts of America that isn't the south. That airport is an affront to humanity :(
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: demi on December 20, 2008, 01:14:16 PM: Jerk off in the restroom just cause that is so kinky
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: rodi on December 20, 2008, 01:44:35 PM: I missed my flight to Philadelphia, therefore missing my flight home. Now I have to wait till Monday to fly out of this SNOWY HELL HOLE!
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: DJ_Tet on December 20, 2008, 01:57:38 PM: Quote from: Kranz Fafka on December 20, 2008, 12:46:10 PM
sell your laptop, buy some cocaine. snort the cocaine.

This is definitely the right course of action, assuming you have only 24 hours to kill. If you run out of cocaine before you leave, you will want to kill yourself approximately 100x worse than you do currently.

So perhaps, surf the net until your laptop dies, then sell it for cocaine.

Win/win
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 20, 2008, 02:33:59 PM: Play flash games, or dl some roms and play those.
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: Mupepe on December 20, 2008, 03:15:12 PM: You can probably find an employee there that is sympathetic and will either direct you towards a power outlet or charge it somewhere for you. Just ask. That's about all I've got. Sucks, dude. :(
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 20, 2008, 03:29:58 PM: Look around the crowd. Shouldn't be hard to spot a depressed middle aged woman. Charm your way into her bed
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: ch1nchilla on December 20, 2008, 05:21:15 PM: I'd go into the city and camp out at a Starbucks until it closes, then head back to the airport and buy a book or something and then sleep.
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: Tieno on December 20, 2008, 05:26:05 PM: Quote from: Kosma on December 20, 2008, 02:33:47 PM
Sounds like adventure!

Buy a book and read it.
Why are you making good suggestions!

It'd be kind of romanic, stuck on an airport for 24 hours and read the best book of your life! You read and you read while every once in a while you look up and see people do whatever they do at an airport.

I wanna be stuck at an airport too! Longest I've been was 3 hours and a friendly american gave me his spare internet minutes to use at an internet station.
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: Reb on December 20, 2008, 05:30:33 PM: Buy The Great Gatsby.
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: demi on December 20, 2008, 05:45:29 PM: My flight got delayed when I was in O'Hare back during GDC... it was gay, since I had no laptop or phone on me. Had to spend the occasional dollar to send text messages via internet / email. They were filming something there, too. I got on an earlier flight though, luckily.
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: Guybrush Threepwood on December 20, 2008, 05:53:09 PM: buy atlas shrugged
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: Brehvolution on December 20, 2008, 10:11:25 PM: Any update or did you find the bar?
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: Bacchus7 on December 21, 2008, 09:24:32 AM: Update: After 7-8 hours at the airport, I gave in and threw some scrill at a cheap motel room with free shuttle service to and from the airport. I slept a few hours, then stayed up until about 7 a.m., at which point I called the front desk and scheduled a 7:50 wake-up call. From 7 to 7:50 I had the most horrific nightmare ever, waking up every five or ten minutes then falling right back asleep in continuations of the nightmare. It started with me alone in a two story house with very large rooms, very high ceilings, huge atrium, great central living room, furnished with all the taste of royalty. There was furniture and objects everywhere in every room. It was only this costumed man and I (I don't remember what he was wearing, but he was completely clothed except for his head), and he told me he wanted to demonstrate the beautiful. From this point on he was costumed entirely. He had a bottomless bag of human skulls, which he would throw at a random wall/object in a room and it would ricochet off of things about ten times until it had hit a cleaver or some other weapon which would "naturally" (laws of physics were not in this dream) travel out of one of the many open windows in the house and maim or kill a child. For some reason, I didn't intervene--I think 'cause he convinced me that it was natural or beautiful or inevitable or something. After four or five of these killings, the older children in the neighborhood caught wind of what was happening and came over/around/into the house. At this point I was trying to hide myself. Here's one point at which I woke up, and then fell back asleep. Now I was standing outside with one of the older kids pointing a gun at me. I looked back and there was a dead little girl lying face-down and a mangled boy still breathing. I went to the boy, trying to pick him up, but the older kid started shooting. I dropped the boy and ran outside to the front yard. Apparently Madman Max, as I now knew him to be (don't know how), had recruited some of the older kids to his cause, killing the rest. I waited behind some bushes in another yard for awhile then went back to the house, which was empty except for whispering rebounding and reverberating off the walls of the house through all the open rooms. I saw Max suspended in the air with his back against a wall about ten feet up. He said all children would now die, and he started throwing skull after skull after skull in quick succession. I finally realized I could stop it, and I ran to each skull and spiked it down or misdirected its course any way I could. He then started throwing them with the intent of killing me, but I swatted those down too. Then the wake-up call woke me up. This isn't a troll. I'm like still off because of that dream.

Now I'm sitting in the airport, waiting for my 11:20 flight to San Francisco. From there I'll go home.
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: Don Flamenco on December 21, 2008, 09:27:05 AM: I said buy cocaine, not LSD
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: ch1nchilla on December 21, 2008, 04:36:31 PM: Cheap hotels will do that to you. I swear every time I stay at one I have a super weird / violent dream. The only solution is to get shit hammered so as to not dream.
Title: Re: What Should I Do?
Post by: Guybrush Threepwood on December 21, 2008, 04:38:08 PM: Quote from: ch1nchilla on December 21, 2008, 04:36:31 PM
Cheap hotels will do that to you. I swear every time I stay at one I have a super weird / violent dream. The only solution is to get shit hammered so as to not dream.

I wonder if anyone has studied the effects of semen on dreams.