How Carmen sprained her ankle. By Natalie
Upon arriving back at our hostel, on the last night we realized that power had been lost on the entire block. It was pitch black in the hostel and we had to get to our room on the second floor. We successfully navigated but Courtney, Carmen and I decided it would be in our best interest to take a bottle of wine to the beach and drink out of plastic cups like we were distinguished socialites on vacation. So we head out of our dark room into the more dark hallway. Down the corridor, I’m leading the pack (still unclear how I got that job). I pull open the door to the stairs and there is a man standing there with his cell phone light flashing in my face. I yelp, Carmen screams and 5 seconds later Courtney reacts. We nervously laugh for a moment, but then actually laugh because the man seems nice and it was funny that Courtney has such a startlingly slow reaction time. The man holds his light for us as we go down the stairs and all of a sudden Carmen makes a noise like she’s about to laugh and then tumbles down the stairs.
Nat: “Oh my goodness! Are you okay?”
Carmen: “Ow”
Nat: “We need ice”
Courtney: “There’s no ice in Italy! We’ll have to get Gelato”
Nat: “But Carmen will eat it!”
Courtney: “Good point. Carmen, how did you fall? Did you trip?”
Carmen: “I just lost focus because I was thinking about how funny it would be, since we’re in an old hospital and all, that when Natalie opened the door, and saw that guy, she should have yelled ‘DIE ZOMBIE DIE’!!!!!....... And I thought that was really funny. And I was laughing in my head so hard that I fell.”
Only slightly paraphrased conversation.
We still went to the water…. But we drank wine on a bench and it’s like 3 weeks later and Carmen is still limping. Moral of the story, always yell “Die Zombie Die!”……
Story #2: Would would buy this?
And.... do YOU notice anything funny about this sign? The Train system is called "Trenitalia".
