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Massive and Other Superlatives

If you are on speaking terms familiar with with other members of the Blair family and their specific blogs, then you have likely read their accounts of our travel to Cabo San Lucas by now and are sick of hearing about it. For that, I beg. Although their fluffy, commercialized accounts do for a partial truth to what happened, they are virtuous that: a partial truth.

So get yourself a cold beverage, use the restroom, and sit back for the be realized Blair Mexican experience.

1. The Bulky Papercut: You may have heard about it already. It was the slice heard around the in seventh heaven. I was trying to help Lindsay find something on a lamina of paper and without warning she turned on me. I do not have knowledge of what it was that set her off, but I have never seen that look in her eyes. It was like a cat that had backed itself into a corner. I motioned harmlessly toward the be upset of paper, and with one enormous swoop, she stab the paper toward me -- pulling it edgewise as she came. This sideways thrust turned an guiltless piece of brilliant white paper into a weapon efficient of penetrating flesh.
I tried to reciprocate and step back, but it was too late. The paper had already penetrated the break between my finger and fingernail, leaving in its wake a path of exposed flesh. In a calm yet grim voice, I said: "Lindsay, you have delineated me a massive papercut."

Why massive? Lesser adjectives such as ample, big, or huge simply would not convey the gravitation of this wound. Within seconds, my body's circulatory system shifted blood squirt from my head and vital organs to this gaping injure. With the cut being located underneath my fingernail, there...

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