Thursday, August 02, 2007

The Vices

The Vices

A couple of people have very kindly invited me to join them at the local gym recently. Unfortunately when they did I very unkindly laughed in their faces. To one I said, "I'm devoted to ruining my body, not building it." She looked rather concerned at that, as if it were a public admission of some private pain. A cry for help.

No. I am just a passionate believer in the vices. As Hunter Thompson said, more or less, "I don't mean to advocate alcohol, drugs, insanity and violence, but they've always worked for me."

2 comments:

tom said...

Good quote. My wife talks about us joining a gym. Public physical activity just doesn't appeal to me. I'm up in the vertin watching the meter cop looking at bicycles for sale in front of a store across the road - for a minute i thougt he was going to ticket them - but i guess he was just thinking it might be easier to bike around town - as small as this town is it seems strange that we have to pay to park - not friendly to the tourists we depend on - oh,well, my parking is free behind the building -

Bruce Hodder said...

Yeah, strange you have to pay to park when you pay taxes to live there. Modern life is a mess. Needs to start all over again.