or "The near pint of milk incident".
Apparently I haven't been blogging enough with any sort of shenanigans so I will try and make up for it tonight in the next couple of hours whilst I need to stay in the hostel.
So I did make it to the Big Apple and did get to experience couch surfing for two days but that's for another post...
Whilst in the HI hostel in DC, I did meet a few interesting people, one of whom was a Historian who oddly seemed to know quite a bit about Statistics (the boring kind though with rank correlation etc.). I always thought that these two fields never crossed about alas, I was proven wrong and he informed me that Historians do use quite a bit of "Statistics". (I'm going to put that in inverted columns since I can't guarantee that they'll be using it correctly at all. For all I know, that might be just applying any old method and claiming that they're doing "Statistics"). Nevertheless, I got on rather well with this guy and enjoyed his company.
This American guy was the same age as my parents, had a rather good sense of humour and wit (the gentle mocking kind) and seemed to be happily married with children the same age as me. We discussed a variety of things and I even had to explain to him the rules of cricket from my shady and limited past.
So I nearly had a sort of "pint of milk" incident with him, as had I stayed in DC over the weekend, we were going to "paint the town red". I really wished I'd stayed in DC for the weekend just for this incident.
I'll miss his presence (I doubt anyone's going to be the same in NYC or Boston or even the UK) and although we did exchange e-mail addresses, it's not going to be the same as discussing a whole variety of topics over the wet trays and bad coffee at breakfast.
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