{"id":966,"date":"2004-08-19T22:31:56","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T05:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gwynunlimited.com\/blog2\/?p=8"},"modified":"2004-08-19T22:31:56","modified_gmt":"2004-08-20T05:31:56","slug":"i-had-my-reservations-from-the-get-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/i-had-my-reservations-from-the-get-go\/","title":{"rendered":"I had my reservations from the get-go"},"content":{"rendered":"

So our neighbours, Ricardo and Christine, roped me into recording for posterity a practical joke they were going to play on their friends involving water balloons, a 50ft high bridge and joggers. Ricardo was to drop the balloons off the bridge and I’d film the runners being soaked. Sita pointed out beforehand, that people getting attacked with water by anonymous strangers was likely to invite their rage. Christine assured her of the collective “wacky” sense of humour of the runners and they’d laugh along as R. pelted them with water. Anyroad, once again, Sita nailed it. The first bloke stopped running, looked up, started his macho posturing and teamed up with his mate to cut off Ricardo’s escape route and sort him out, “come down here and try that you bastard”, and stuff. I just kept taking (blurry, underexposed) photos and resolved not to mention this again. So anyway, I’ll work out a way to get the photo on here to relive the crazy madcap student madness<\/a>… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So our neighbours, Ricardo and Christine, roped me into recording for posterity a practical joke they were going to play on their friends involving water balloons, a 50ft high bridge and joggers. Ricardo was to drop the balloons off the bridge and I’d film the runners being soaked. 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