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Top Ten Reasons to Wrap Up a Field Trip and Head Home

Last Updated: 19th Nov 2007

By Paul Gilmore

Top Ten List of Signs that it’s Probably Time to Wrap Up a Field Trip and Head Home:

10. Collecting partner is speaking in strange tongues.

9. Blizzard.

8. Have forgotten your children’s names.

7. Have broken more than two fingers on one hand, or five from both.

6. Can no longer elude search-and-rescue helicopters.

5. Heart attack.

4. Somebody mentions the word "beer".

3. Getting married in less than three hours.

2. Partner’s legs, protruding from large pocket, are no longer moving.

1. Debate on which of the Seven Dwarves was the best miner is leading to blows.






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