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09 March 2014

big black grasshopper

little did we know as we set off from yosemite that the big black grasshopper was waiting for us to put the nbc sports news on. little did we know that he was being kept in the dark in 90 degree heat in solitary confinement with no way of knowing whether pete sampras had won his 5th wimbledon men’s singles championship to equal bjorn borgs record of the 80’s …or was it the 70’s. he probably didn’t even know that a spirited tim henman had lost the semi to pete in 4 sets.

we left curry camp which strangely enough only the night before had smelt of curry. only the very efficient and smart park rangers would probably know why……. and if i’d asked them, they would probably be all too eager to point out that they knew why.

after death valley we arrived at bishop and pulled into the second motel. nice old lady, nice old motel room. it was still blisteringly hot so we collapsed onto the bed and put the tv on. the air conditioning suddenly made much more excited noises. jo pointed out that it wasn’t the air conditioning but some living thing behind the bedside cabinet. we looked down the back of the cabinet to see an enormous black thing making noises like………like a grasshopper. we phoned reception to make sure it was a grasshopper – they said it was although we thought they might take a look – perhaps i had a sort of ‘yikes that’s a big black grasshopper’ sound to my voice down the phone ….!! i tried to pick up the cabinet to get it out of the door but i couldn’t budge it. was it a body building grasshopper – no the radio alarm was pinned to the cabinet and in turn cabled to the wall. with a tactical use of an ashtray and an information sheet jo motioned how i might remove the black body building beast. little did we know that his commotion was only because he was so pleased to hear the tv on and wanting me to switch over to nbc sports, after all…. the sports round up was just about to start. i put him out of the door onto the balcony came back in and switched over to nbc………..bloody hell…………pistol pete beat goran ivanisevic in 5 to take the title again. poor old goran i’d like to have seen him win, drrrrt prrrrt prrrrt prrrrt

– vonovitch

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