I mentioned "Selling Out" as my favorite challenge a few posts above, so I'll divert and tell you about my least favorite. It was a warm autumn afternoon. Life was good. Tribes were merging and we were looking forward to our first individual challenge. I had no idea the worst hour of my life was ahead of me.Hippielishus @ Jan 6 2008, 05:43 PM wrote: What was your favorite challenge and why?
"Al has been feeling a little under the weather lately. Suzanne believes he might have a bug of some sort. Dr. U62, its up to you to diagnose Al! You shall use Zoomify to help you find the evil bug."
Evil bug. Ok, no problem. Get out the handy dandy Zoomify magnifying glass and give it a shot. Is there an alien in his nostril? A spider in his hair? Ladybugs in his eyebrows? Nope, not as far as I could see.
Keep trying. I'd never stared at any man this long before in my life. After about 60 minutes going over every pixel of this picture in various magnification levels, I started to lose my mind. Al's menacing glare seemed to mock me from within my computer screen. My eyes strained. My hand locked up in a quasi-death grip on my mouse. Wife, kids and pets were sent away so I could finish this task. After all, what's more important than WOWAY Survivor Challenge? And this one was being timed!
AAAAAACCCKKK!!! Why me?? What kind of evil madman came up with this test? What should I do? And what's the deal with egg nog? Why does my grocery store only sell it for two months a year? Should I keep going on this? Or throw in the towel before medical attention is needed? Hold on a minute...... it says "stinky cheese" on Al's pinky finger.... YES! YES! And it only took me 88 minutes to notice it.
So that's the pretty-much-true story of my least favorite competition of this season of Survivor. The sad part is I can't even look at my Straight Outta Lynwood CD case without having flashbacks of it all. (Thanks a lot, Stephen.)
Kudos to Rob and Meli for finishing that challenge in quick time. In fact, Meli finished the task in 10 minutes. Had she been in the final with me now, I would be conceding to her on that basis alone.
Thank you.
U62