Mercutio
11th January 2005, 12:35 PM
This was the front page story today. (http://www.fosters.com/January2005/01.11.05/news/mn_y0111c.asp) The big headline: Tsunami near miss
YORK, Maine — Thanks to a mixture of a lucky bottle, timing and concrete, Steve and Michael Golden, 38, and 32, respectively, survived the devastation of the tsunami in South Asia on Dec. 26. "Survived" as in it completely missed the hotel where they were staying. The "lucky bottle" was sambuca, compliments of the owner of a restaurant at which they had eaten. They drank it, which led to their decision to sleep off a hangover rather than visit Raja Island (which was destroyed).
I do think the phrase "lucky bottle" was the staff writer's choice. The brothers' own explanation:"In the end for us, it was just dumb luck, a bad hangover and chance timing that kept us out of harm’s way," Steve said.
But why attribute something to dumb luck, when you can attribute it to something cool like a lucky bottle of sambuca?
YORK, Maine — Thanks to a mixture of a lucky bottle, timing and concrete, Steve and Michael Golden, 38, and 32, respectively, survived the devastation of the tsunami in South Asia on Dec. 26. "Survived" as in it completely missed the hotel where they were staying. The "lucky bottle" was sambuca, compliments of the owner of a restaurant at which they had eaten. They drank it, which led to their decision to sleep off a hangover rather than visit Raja Island (which was destroyed).
I do think the phrase "lucky bottle" was the staff writer's choice. The brothers' own explanation:"In the end for us, it was just dumb luck, a bad hangover and chance timing that kept us out of harm’s way," Steve said.
But why attribute something to dumb luck, when you can attribute it to something cool like a lucky bottle of sambuca?