So the weekend started with paintball on saturday. It was alot of fun, although i spent alot of time sneezing from cold/hayfever. It was paid for by the boss, which is cool. I played in 4 games, then I ran out of paintballs so sat out the last one.
The first game was one team advanced to capture a flag while the other team defended. the advancing team could respawn infinitely at their respawn spot for the first five min, then they had only one life, the defending team had two lives. As attacking team we won, although I died twice in first 5 min, and got pinned fairly well for the rest of the game, I think I took out at least 4 other people. As defending team we also won. I lost one life to a paintpellet to the facemask and then I managed to take out 4-5people. It was awesome, the pellets droped off at about 20m, so if someone was on the very edge of your range, you could "drop" the pellet down on top of their hiding place. The pellet didnt travel in a very straight line, but it was fairly consistent, so you could learn to aim it easily.
The next game was a little village style thing with a commander one each team. The commander was the only one who could catch the flag, and could only die if hit in the chest or back, and everyone else could inifinitly respawn at the commander while they were still alive. First game was a draw. I got hit in the elbow, then when i raised my hand to signal i was out and going to respawn, i got hit 3 more times... After we swapped ends, my team won. I got lots of hits, but i also got a surrender/kill. Thats were you manage to sneak up close to someone (less than 3 mts) and you shout "surrender!" and if they dont imeadiately, then you shoot them point blank, hehehe... so our commander made a run at their's and we came out the victor, while i was covering the left flank, the greys were routed, so i kept moving up, and there was one sneaky grey in a building, and when i saw him turn to kill our commander, i came round the corner, ask him to surrender, then shot him in the elbow. T'was awesome.
After that we had a pretty good dinner with bar tab and a local hotel. I had some "party" shot drinks called skittles, they were pretty much a jager-bomb with contreu instead of jager.
Then when i went to get some cash out of the nearby commonwealth atm, I passed a dero who shouted out "what you looking at!" and i was like, oh damn, not this crap. Anyway he was hassling some druggy lady and I was like, should i do something? I was going to ignore it, but then he pushed her over, so I went up to them, and asked her if she was ok. Anyway, the two were having a fight over some stuff (who knows why druggies fight?) so i stood between them. All i could think was, i will feel so guilty if i dont help out, but damn i dont want to be here, and please dont hit me. But the guy was alot of talk, i kept eye contact, and tried to move between them whenever he went for her. Although i think i should have been more physical, kept him back more, cos he managed to spit at her, and to slap at her maybe 3 times after i turned up. But i didnt really know what to do. So i just kept trying to stand between them. Then i led the girl to the pub where we were drinking, just to get her away from him. But she was as helpfull as druggies always are, egging him on from the safety of behind me. Spitting and occasionally trying to slap him. Anyways, we got to the pub, and she sorta hung around with us, even after the guy was gone. I was very uncomfortable with this, I only helped her out of my own sense of guilt, then she started saying I protected her and stuff to the others, and i was extremely uncomfortable with this since i did it out of guilt, and i didnt like being ascosiated with her druggie ass. Then one of the bogan guys from work started chatting to her, and him and her dissapeared for a few minutes together, all very dodgy imho. She left behind a tablet on the table when she walked off also, super classy. When we moved on, she stayed behind, which i was glad.
I think that the druggy guy was too intimidated by me to actualy throw a punch, i was 4-5 inches taller, and I forget sometimes that i dont look small and waek anymore (and that i have done boxing before so i should be able to defend myself fair reasonably). Anyway, i kinda feel bad that i didnt help her out of alturism, and that afterwards I showed my own ego-centered-ness by feeling like i was too good to ascosiate with her. I also feel like i didnt really help her properly, I should have done more than just stand there. And i feel a little guilty that I would a liked some more acknowledgement, like i did some amazing thing.
Anyway, we went to a different place, played some barry, then i went home cos i was tired, to a very nice hotel room that was paid for by the boss.
Then on sunday we had a big breakfast, with two kinds of drink! (this is a reference to a friend who believes if you have coffee and oj with bf then it is an epic breakfast, so saying "two kinds of drink" is like saying "with all the gold trimmings") although the bf didnt actually have a huge selection of food, just bacon and eggs with toast or english muffins (which were yummy).
And we finihsed it up with some go-karts. They were some low qualitiy ones, that didnt accelerate that fast, but it was still super fun. The warning light, which meant you had to go slow kept going off, whihc was annoying, but other than that i did heaps of drifting. My best time was 27.57, nearly a whole 3 seconds slower than our overall best performer. But I blame the fact that on my run there were 8 ppl on the track, which made it near impossible to pass. whereas everyone else was doing 5-6 ppl on the track at once, since the operators changed their minds after my run. I got some epic bruises just behind my shoulders from the seat and sliding round corners, one is about 8cm in diameter accross, that light brown color of a shallow bruise.
Then we drove home. In total an awesome weekend.
1 comment:
Damn, I wish our work functions were half as cool. All we get is a night of food, drinks and bad dancing.
I think the fact that you helped her, regardless of the reason, is pretty selfless of you. You were potentially putting yourself in danger, you don't know whether that other guy had a weapon or not, he could have stabbed you!
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