Quotes from My Summer Vacation of 2003

Josh (brother), Sara (me), Sally (mom) and Harvey Lapan (dad) at the ruins of Delphi

“WC – is that Water Closet or Water Cooler?”
~ Young boy at the Acropolis

“You can get the X on her butt. You can do almost anything.”
~ Harvey talking about his video camera

“Are you ever going to stop being crazy?”
~ Josh to his girlfriend, Ariya

“Did the red underwear come with the superman pajamas?”
~ Josh

“You know it would have been worse than walking on the (rocky) beach today.”
~ Josh referring to walking on his toy-covered bedroom floor (when he was a kid)

“I bet if you could walk on water you would be fine.”
~ Josh talking about the rocky beach and water

Josh, Ariya, Sally and Sara on a boat off the coast of Santorini, Greece

“Are they talking about frisking females?”
~ Ariya – Josh and Harvey were talking about a Muslim’s woman’s case (in Florida) about covering her head for a driver’s license photo

“Blinded by religion.”
~ In Case of Need by Michael Crichton – many people in Boston have Madonnas on their front windshield and, apparently, when they get into car accidents it pokes their eye out.

“Do you know how much I feel like the guy in the relationship?”
~ Ariya – Josh was mad at her because she didn’t remember the anniversaries of their first meeting and date

“That’s definitely a have-at-it-I’m-here dress.”
~ Ariya after seeing a see-through white dress on a mannequin

“Now I’m going to walk around with my hands on my breasts just so you won’t touch me again.”
~ Ariya to Josh after he hit her breast with a heavy hotel keychain

“Patras can just mind its own damn business!”
~ Sally – a sign pointed right and left to get there but we were head to un-identified Nauplio

“I love the stuff that comes out of your mouth. It’s completely false.”
~ Ariya to Josh

The Island of Paros

“You (Ariya) can keep washing them [plastic forks] as much as you want. It’s not much work for me to just throw them away.”
~ Josh

DURING A SCRABBLE GAME . . .
Sally: “G – A – E – D. I can’t think of a word.”
Harvey: “Well you better do it quickly. You don’t want to get old.”
Sally: (with a triumphant smile) “Egad!”
*Egad apparently is a word, although Ariya and I didn't know it at the time (so . It is fittingly used as an exclamation, usually expressing surprise.

“Don’t apologize to me. Apologize to the camera.”
~ Josh to Ariya after she accidentally bumped his camera

“I hate to believe that nature is so obliging that only mussels that are safe to eat open when cooked.”
~ Harvey

Sally Lapan: “FOLLOW THOSE CARS!”
Sara: “All of them? Some are going straight, others are turning right, and still others are going left! Do we take the average?!”

“Vivez vos rêves. Desertez l’ecole.”
~ French graffiti in Aix-en-Provence (roughly “Live your dreams. Leave school.”)

“Everyone is crossing their thumbs.”
~ CNN correspondent in Hong Kong

“The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.”
~ The Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

“If a Jew and a Christian mate do they produce a unicorn?”
~ Harvey about the myth that Jews have horns

“INTERMITTENT SACRIFICES. CULTURE MUTILEE.”
~ On a building in Arles, France (your guess is as good as mine, it looked like a museum)

London Metro was experiencing “delays due to a person on the tracks.”
~ Why would there be a person on the tracks and why hadn’t they moved the person?

“You could say a delayed flight is a cancellation waiting to happen.”
~ Harvey

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