It came to me at 2:17am while I was watching the 1974 British Open highlights on ESPN23. I was in a rut. I was bored. I needed some excitement. My job was going well, but was on autopilot for now. I wasn't dating anyone steadily, and with the cold and amount of snow outside I might as well be hibernating. I desperately needed
something.
I was about to go to bed when a blaring commercial caught my eye. There was a montage of groups of guys deep sea fishing, golfing, drinking beer, hooking up with gorgeous babes and most of all, having a blast. Shot at a luxurious, tropical vacation resort, the handsome and obviously successful pitchman, with a sexy blonde on his arm looking adoringly up at him, said, "Are you in a rut? Are you bored? Do you need some excitement? If you answered yes to any
one
of these questions you need a MANCATION!" Pointing his finger at me he continued, "And you need it NOW!"
"Yes!" I shouted and pumped my fist in the air. They repeated the phone number seven or eight times until it was seared into my brain. I called right away and the overtly sexy, yet courteous operator said the catalog and a DVD would be in my hands in a couple of days. I went to bed and dreamed of fun in the sun with the guys.
I jumped out of bed in the morning, called four of my friends and got them to agree to a mancation. I told them it would be a tropical trip, and that I'd handle the details and get back to them in a few days.
The catalog was in my mailbox when I got home from work, much later than normal as it turned out. I'd had to take care of a crisis and got home close to midnight. I changed clothes and finally sat down in my recliner with the catalog. The fire was blazing in front of me, and I was warm, maybe a little too warm, since I was already a bit drowsy. I soldiered on though, because I desperately wanted to select a destination for our mancation so I could book it tomorrow. I needed something real to look forward to.
I'd removed the awesome killer zombie DVD before I sat down and replaced it with the mancation DVD. Sitting in my chair with remote in hand, I pressed play and watched. The brief video made it seem like you were missing out on life itself if you didn't experience a mancation at least once. The video was a slick little piece and made me eager to get going.
There were mancations all over the globe, but I was set on tropical. I thumbed through the catalog. There were lots of cute vacation destination "names" like Zhi
man
tanejo, Cay
man
Islands,
Man
serrate,
Man
tinique, and
Man
tigua. But for me, the
Man
cun mancation stood out. It promised deep sea fishing, golfing, heavy drinking and best of all, hooking up with women looking to hook up with men. Yes, the libidinous Mancun mancation was paired with a lascivious Girl Getaway. I yawned once and began to read the details. It looked promising and the more I read, way more than promising.
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"Hello."
"Dude! We're booked! We're going on a Mancun mancation!" I excitedly told Bill on the other end of the line.
"Awesome! What'd they say when you called?"
"All the fishing, golfing and drinking we can stand. And get this; the guy said they tend to book a lot of middle school teachers and ER nurses for some reason, so the women on this particular Girl Getaway are
wild