The Birth Of Cool
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Dan won VIP tickets to the Sun Cruz Casino ship so with his birthday just around the corner we all took a trip! If you are not familiar with this cruise it is basically a ship full of money, alcohol, and degenerates who want to partake in these vices. I have provided an example here:
But this is really a story about one man, Brian Probus, who has been on vacation for the last three years. We seem to always run into Brian on our various trips, maybe it is by accident, maybe it is divine intervention. Regardless of what brings us together we always find ourselves consumed and left to our own devices to handle him.
Brian was in town from Nebraska where he was visiting family for the Christmas/Hanukkah holiday. Brian was on the ship to enjoy the Florida sunshine and try his hand at roulette out to sea. “Four miles out, there’s no doubt!” Brian told us a few times. Supposedly the term came from a strip club on a barge that Brian once visited in the same area. The name escapes me now but the basic idea is that they did whatever they wanted in international waters. We kept telling him that it was actually only three miles out at which you could gamble (among other things) but he swore it was four miles due to his experience in nautical law.
We witnessed some very interesting sea gulls on the ship. Most of the gulls carried their heads high but one kept his low and looked very mean/tough because of it. Below the Brian also explains the mating rituals of birds he once witnessed in Detroit:
On the left a normal bird, on the right a bird not giving a sh**.
Brian explains the mating rituals of birds he once witnessed in Detroit.
Since we took the day trip our ship returned to port by 4 PM. We all headed back to Dan’s house to eat birthday cake and watch three different football games. I fell asleep halfway into the first one since I was dead tired from driving all the way back from Orlando super early in the morning, losing money, eating, and drinking all day. We invited Brian to come back to the house to eat cake but he said parents weren’t really his thing and he had some prior engagements at The Readhead, a classy cocktail joint at the port. As we parted ways I stopped to think about what exactly Brian means in all our lives. Sometimes it seems we all get caught up with work, school, and the like. It’s kind of like he is a martyr for the working man, but opposite. Dick.
