Thursday, October 15, 2009

Tourists, and foreign holiday resorts...

While exchanging our comments about the sights in foreign climes, Monsieur Beep  reminds me that all is not always as it seems. This got me thinking about a little book written by a retired newspaperman from our east coast, who spent his winters for years down in Florida. The book's title is 'Add Ten Years to Your Life' - A Canadian Humorist Looks At Florida, by Stuart Trueman.

It's all a collection of little short stories, just a page or two each, and most are quite amusing. In one of those, he describes admiring from behind this cute little thing with tight pedal-pushers accenting her attractive posterior, a brief little top, and long blonde hair falling gracefully down her back. Then, she stops at a bus stop in front of the mall, and he gets a good look at her front. She's obviously seventy-something, with a face like a train wreck!

This is why I don't take cruises and foreign vacations to exotic destinations - I don't want to pay hundreds of dollars just to sleep in a strange bed and look at the same kinds of wrinkled old prunes that I can see at home for no extra charge. 



And just for fun, I'm including my favourite 'Got Milk?' poster, for your viewing pleasure.
It's an oldie now, but still a goodie.


2 comments:

  1. There's a point in what you're saying, Ray. Some people seem indeed to travel to far-away countries just to sit by the pool all day, even families with babies.
    And thanks for brightening up Monieur's day with the picture of the beautiful lady.

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  2. The beautiful lady is Rebecca Romijn
    the famous supermodel of S.I.'s Swimsuit Edition and elsewhere.
    She just gave birth to twin girls this past January, according to the news. If they grow up looking like her, their futures are assured.

    Getting back to our remarks about the tourists and the locals, I don't doubt that the local girls of G.C. are gorgeous, and I can easily believe that a lot of the tourist gals have seen more lunches than lunch-times, with resulting effects on their figures.

    Unfortunately, it's not usually the young & horny & desperate who can afford to take those tropical vacations. It's usually people who have worked for quite a few years to get into the right situation to do all that. And by then, the sands of time have shifted a little, perhaps. :)

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