A Cactus in the City

I mentioned earlier that I got a free inflatable cactus at work. I had no use for it, but who would pass up a free inflatable cactus? Nobody I'd associate with.

For the past few months, it had been sitting in my closet, unused. Then a few days ago I decided I'd give it a face, and I drew the cactus a personality complete with a nametag reading simply "a cactus." It then became a strange (awesome) decoration in my bedroom.

A couple friends and I were pretty bored today. We were roaming around with nothing in particular to do. We hung out at my house briefly, not really accomplishing anything interesting or entertaining. Then we had the idea to take the cactus out for the night. Basically, we just brought the cactus around and took a bunch of pictures of him in random places. We got a few stares (always a sign that you're having fun); and a short, round woman at Borders informed us that cacti are not allowed in the premises when accompanied by a camera. (There were a few good shots in Borders which we were subsequentially not able to make.)

This was an idea that I really liked (although I'm aware it has been done before in various forms). I want to do this again when the weather is warmer. It was so piss-freezingly cold outside that we weren't able to capture each photo perfectly at our leisure, and we definitely couldn't have stayed out taking more pictures for much longer unless we decided we didn't need our extremities anymore.

Anyway, on to the pictures...

This is the story of a cactus's first night in town.

The cactus had a fun time. He will definitely be going on another outing when the weather gets a little warmer.

I decided to check out what other sorts of inflatable tom foolery I could get myself into using my 20% employee discount. I found the following items that would be fairly awesome when used in the same way as this gentlemanly cactus:

A monkey!
A shark!
A chili pepper!
A parrot!

More will come in the near future.