Lollipops and bubblewrap

What more could you want for a 21st birthday? Apart from alcohol, but that's ok because we had that in plentious volumes.

For all your immediate bubblewrap needs, go here. No-one actually sells bubblewrap, you just have to find someone who's chucking it out after installing a new shelving unit. As for the lollipops, find a fifty-odd blonde from eastern Europe, there are plenty around. She will be happy to give you anything in her shop.

So there was great imbibage of hard drinks, before dawn threatened to appear and a general decision was made to sleep. Following the discovery of a significant mattress-per-person deficit, and that no-one wanted to get in a bed with David, your intrepid blogger ended up sharing the lounge floor with the birthday girl while Olly nicked the sofa.

I want this.

Over the last 5 years, I have (as any self-respecting early 20s person should do) passed many a spectacularly uncomfortable night, whether it be borrowing other people's floors, or sharing beds that really weren't designed for so many people, or one particularly memorably aching occasion where we found upon arrival that all the inns of Montpellier were booked up, and slept instead in the luggage rack of an overnight train to Italy. Also not recommended are: night flights in economy class on Nigeria Airways, and aisle seats on packed cross-channel coach trips. But at the same time, beds are overrated. Beds lull you into a comfort zone where you think you can just turn up and you will go to sleep. Floors, coach seats, and the like, make you work at it, and are hence far more efficient.

Last night, or let's be precise, this morning, was what I have realised is Just About Right. Carpeted floors are comfortable enough to get to sleep on, but uncomfortable enough that you wake up after a sensible sort of time and don't feel particuarly like kipping again. Sharing aforementioned floor does not make it any more comfortable in a purely materialistic sense, but mutual participation in the experience makes it infinitely more life-affirming, convivial, and uplifting in a raw and instinctive caveman manner. And that can only be A Good Thing.

Do these things occasionally, but not too often, and you shall feel fulfilled:
* Share a sleeping space.
* Go on a journey with friends.
* Pop bubblewrap.
* Fry bacon in the morning.

However, always buy shampoo, ketchup, and other liquid produce of similar viscosity, in bottles that can be stood upside down on their lid. This will save you immeasurable squeezing time when it comes to the business end of the bottle.