"The more foolish, illogical, or surreal one's actions were perceived to be (and mine surely fell into one of these categories), the wider the arms of hospitality were opened in salutation."
Tony Hawks knows how to make you laugh, even when you don't want to. I've earned my fair share of strange looks after I burst out with a chuckle at this book. In the first pages of recounting how the sordid wager to travel around Ireland with fridge in tow came about, Hawks paints a picture of the bizarre. Once revisited by the end of the journey, though, it seems remarkably less so. One starts to wonder why the rest of the world can't be like the quaint places that Hawks visited, where absurdity, pointlessness, and doing things for the heck of it are things to be admired and welcomed.
Tony Hawks knows how to make you laugh, even when you don't want to. I've earned my fair share of strange looks after I burst out with a chuckle at this book. In the first pages of recounting how the sordid wager to travel around Ireland with fridge in tow came about, Hawks paints a picture of the bizarre. Once revisited by the end of the journey, though, it seems remarkably less so. One starts to wonder why the rest of the world can't be like the quaint places that Hawks visited, where absurdity, pointlessness, and doing things for the heck of it are things to be admired and welcomed.
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