Choose Your Own Adventure! LJ Idol Topic!

[aggienaut]

This week's LJ Idol topic is "A Traveling Travesty." Whereas last week with the topic of bupkis all I could come up with all week was bupkis (er nothing) until my friend Aaron tipped me off to the gem that is argan oil, this week I have way too many possible ideas.

It's tempting to write about how in LJI Season 6 I had the joy of LJI drama reaching me in literally a hut on the Sinai Peninsula, where I checked my email from a tiny (one slow computer) bedouin internet cafe (yeah they have those, anything to squeeze a few more bucks out of tourists), and found out I was officially banned from completing that LJI season. But it would just be silly to bring that up again. ;D

I think I've narrowed down my options this week to two ideas:

(1) A true personal story involving TSA confiscating and disassembling a gavel that had my name engraved on it (its a "hammer-like" object!), also TSA agents being racist, also being interrogated by diplomatic security agents.

(2) A historical fiction about the improbable sounding but true story of how the world's most isolated tree, the only tree within a 250 mile radius in the Sahara was destroyed ... when a drunk driver crashed into it in 1973.

Option 2 is more in keeping with the kind of entries I usually like to write for LJI, that is, informing people of interesting true stories (and random facts!) from history, but precisely to change it up I'm thinking Option 1 might be a good change of pace.

However I have a feeling there will be a lot of other TSA horror stories submitted for this topic. /:

[Poll #1803116]

Comments

[faerie-spark.livejournal.com]

you were banned from season 6? What the hell? what was that all about?

[yachiru]

I wanna know too! Did you threaten to kill kitty micheals?! Nudity? >_>

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

Yep - my question too.

[cosmolinguist]

I'm voting for the latter because, well it sounds cool, but also because I've already read a few "oh my god, the TSA" entries, and I wouldn't want you to get lost in the crowd.

[yachiru]

I voted for the second but I was interested in the first as well. I do think the second would be more universally liked.

[ryl.livejournal.com]

You have to do the second one! How can you hit the only tree in a vast wasteland?

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

A bit late, of course, but..yeah, I almost wish I'd not gone the TSA route. Ah well.

[sonarvampress.livejournal.com]

I feel like I need to know more info about the LJ idol season 6 drama. I didn't follow that season at all. I voted fro number 2 because I like what you normally write.