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So bored we went hillwalking
One of my friends "back in the day" and myself made a point of trying to do something interesting and exciting every Sunday. Sadly, this Sunday was different. The world was boring. We were boring. We ended up driving about in the hills aimlessly, until we found a signpost that pointed to some tourist monument, up a hill.

Being exceedingly bored, we stopped and began walking up it. As we walked up, the hill got steeper on either side of the path... there were rocks sitting there so we started rolling them off the edge. We got up to boulders about a foot in diameter, pushing them off, hearing them go bouncing down the hill and the odd splash as they hit water. Again, I can only stress how bored out of our skull we were that this was a highlight of the day.

In the distance was the holy grail... a HUGE rock that looked about 2 feet wide! It was just begging to be pushed... so we did. Off it went... *THUMP*... *THUMP*... *THUMP*...

then - "BAAAAAA!" *THUMPTHUMP* and two loud splashes. We still don't know what it hit, or if it survived, but on hindsight, that HUGE boulder was maybe one too far.
(Sun 12th Nov 2006, 3:54, More)