better than beer

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So, midnight rolls around and I’m just about to go to bed when I get a call from my roommate.
"Get ready, we’re about to pick you up." (that was him talking)
(then I ask) "But for what?"
"We’re going swimming!" (him again)
"Really? Nice!" (that there was me responding)

Keep in mind that I live in Vermont, and being early November the temperature outside is varying from 37*F down to about 25*F. Also realize that I know exactly where we’re headed (a little place called Joe’s Pond, about an hour’s drive away – this summer we did some late-night swimming runs and never with a suit). He picks me up with two of our closest friends and we start driving. When we get there around 2am, there is no mist on the water (a good sign that the water is the same temperature as the air: 34*F by the car’s computer) and we all start laughing like scared little boys. None of us at this point think that this is a good idea, but we all agree it’s a fun one.

We park by the beach and picnic tables, strip down and walk to the water’s edge in just our towels. Then we drop the towels and stand a couple feet from the water, nervously laughing and hopping up and down to try to keep warm. None of us really wants to give the signal but pretty soon my roommate shouts “1” and we join in for a “2, 3, GO!”. We all race into the water, dive under, and struggle to stand and sprint back to our towels. It hurt. It hurt good.

Once we dried off we all thought the air felt much warmer…so we booked it back to the idling, heated car, knowing it was a bad sign that we’d all stopped shivering. We got in, drank some of our Dunkin’ Donuts coffee and started the drive home. On the way home we pulled to the side of the long country road to put our clothes back on but first enjoyed ten naked minutes in the middle of the road in the crisp, moonlit night air. Nothin’ better, man. Makes you feel so alive. It’s nice to know we can have such an incredible time without getting drunk.

[sub]I tried to post this last night when we returned but the board was down for administrative maintenance.[/sub]

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I think that I’ll stick to drinking, thank you very much.

SHIVER!!!

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Have you tried switching brands?

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I really think that sex is the only thing that can claim to be better than beer. For sure either of those is better than getting into near freezing water.

Please tell me that your skinny dipping crew was co-ed.

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Can somebody please call Peter Coors and let him know just what his expensive beer commercials featuring cold mountain streams are actually selling?

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BETTER THAN BEER?

you, sir, are INCORRECT! there is nothing, repeat- NOTHING BETTER THAN BEER!!

does sound kinda fun, if the naked parties are female and kinda frisky…

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Nakedness rules, man. I haven’t often gotten naked with my friends. Last time I tried it was over ten years ago, and it really freaked the one guy out. I haven’t been naked outside for too long. I’ve never gone around in mixed company in naked groups, but that would be fine, too. Group nakedness is great, and not necessarily sexual. (I guess I should just join a nudist colony already, but I just can’t do it. It’s so… orderly.

Oh, and beer’s great, too. And I like swimming.