I splurged.
So, imagine being 17 years old and winning an essay competition organised by a major intellectual periodical (uh) in your country (Poland, in this case). You have a thousand crisp Polish zlotys (equivalent to roughly 250 quid I guess) in your pocket. What do you do?

Put it away to move out from the parents' home as soon as possible?

Put it away to buy some wreck of a shitty car to have sex in when you've finally gotten a driver's license and turned 18?

Or randomly realise that it's very sunny (it was in the middle of the summer), and that squinting all the time is getting on your nerves and giving you a bit of a headache and spending 700 zlotys on fucking Ray Ban Wayfarers?

The girlfriend thinks I look good in them, though.
(firestormviper!!1 approaching god through cigarettes, Tue 26 May 2009, 18:52, Reply)