Day 17 – Boulder, Colorado

Joe

It was early afternoon by the time we managed to crawl out of bed and see Boulder in day light. We experienced great joy at finding some excellent coffee at a small café on a side street. Our joy soon changed to disappointment once we got talking to Joe, or should we say, once he got talking to us. Here are some points from his painful three hour monologue:

-       His highly decorated marine son led the war in Iraq and while doing so courageously spared the life of an Iraqi gang leader.

-       This great act of mercy apparently caused him to have ‘2000 pissed off marines’ on his hands.

-       All America’s leading meteorologists live in Boulder and 80% of the residents have Masters Degrees.

-       Oh, and the US has all the world’s bombs and according to Joe they should go ahead and blow up whoever they like.

Know the Denis Leary song Asshole? It was written about this guy.

Surely if not for our hangovers someone would have thought of a way outta there. At least Jon had his wits about him enough to decline Joe’s offer to take us on a drive to see some house that looked like a spaceship, yikes! We were eventually saved when our parking ticket expired and we had to mosey on home, day wasted!