[at-l] What a lame-ass idea

[Josh Wilkins" <jtwilkins@mediaone.net (Josh Wilkins)]

*clap* *clap* *clap*
Something like this deserves some pat on the back.
JTW
----- Original Message -----
From: <KellyGoVols@aol.com>
To: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:40 PM
Subject: [at-l] What a lame-ass idea


> First, this IS intended for the list, and second IT IS TRAIL RELATED!  I'm
> standing at the clerk's office and I'm banging my head against the wall
> because if the clerk's moved slower, they'd be moving backwards, but lets
not
> get me started.  Anyway, two Attorney's we're talking amongst themselves
(no,
> this is not a sad attorney joke) and they were talking of a colleague who
> decided to close up shop, gave his employees four months notice, is
locking
> up his doors, and is headed out to the Appalachian Trial (trial!!! TRAIL!)
> for six months to "find himself".  This was said in such a sarcastic
manner
> that I stopped banging my head against the wall to join in the
conversation,
> stating that I had planned to do the same thing this year, had to cancel
but
> am planning for 2003.  They looked at me as if I were from Mars.  People
> around me starting asking questions about what you did for food, how you
> bathed, all the normal questions, I had fun (for once, at the clerk's
office)
> answering the questions of everyone, until one of the attorney's said,
"Well,
> I think it's just a lame-assed idea. For the love of God, who would do
> something so stupid?"  Well, we all know MY big mouth, so I said to him,
"Who
> would spend $100,000.00 to go to school for 8 years, become a lawyer and
work
> his ass off defending client's who are, nine times out of ten,  GUILTY,
just
> so they can live in a 600 square foot condo on the beach in the smog
filled,
> traffic infested, crime ridden, big city and drive a dick-mobile Corvette
and
> take strippers to  nice restaurants once a week?
>
> For the first time in the history of man, an attorney had absolutely
NOTHING
> to say.  It was a wonderful day, folks.  I managed to argue an attorney
into
> silence, defend a thru-hike, AND have fun at the clerk's office.  It was a
> wonderful day indeed.
>
> The only thing, I sooooo wish I would have gotten the name of the attorney
> who's doing a thru this year….
>
> Kelly
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