Dilemma’s, two possibilities but which do you choose?
My buddy Collette and I decided to escape to the sun. It was October and rainy London wasn’t very appealing so off we went to Rhodes for a girlie holiday. A holiday with a friend can test your relationship but not for me and Collette, 20 years on and we are still friends.
Our apartment was on a steep hill next to an army base (this is what happens when you book a last minute cheap deal) so we decided to hire a scooter to get us to the beach. The man we hired it from was dodgy to say the least and didn’t look the type to be messed with. He may have been the Don of the island for all we knew and was probably known as ‘The Papa’ to anyone who feared him.
To cut a long story short, we crashed! We reached the top of that god forsaken hill and lost our balance. If this where a romance novel the soldiers from the barracks would be jumping over the fence to come and rescue the damsels in distress; but it’s not, so there we were broken scooter and bloody knees…I still have the scars on my knee to this day.
Now we were faced with a dilemma; take the scooter back to ‘The Papa’, explain what happened and accept our fate or leave the scooter outside his shop in the middle of the night? (this covert operation would take some planning) After weighing everything up we dumped it outside his shop…dishonest maybe but we were two girls in a foreign land and scared very scared!
The next day we sat in the local bar and a girl rode up in a scooter that had a crack on the front…it was our scooter and was now in the hands of someone else. I can’t even begin to explain the relief we felt at that moment…this called for a bottle of Ouzo! We duped the ‘The Papa’! There was no contest when faced with not one but two women with a brain!
Funny, we wanted to escape the British weather and ended up trying to escape from the sunshine of a Greek Island…go figure!
It seems to me that when faced with a dilemma, trying to figure out which choice is the right one means that neither would be right at all. What if there is another option that you just can’t see because you have been blinded by panic, fear even love?
As for me, I would rather be where the sun shines. Metaphorically speaking, that could be anywhere.
© Michelle Sotiriou 2012
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