This Summer we’ve teamed up with Vodafone to put together a series of guides, some Summer Instructables, if you will. Keeping with the summer theme of, you know, warmth and being outside we have put together a list of activities for the sunburn months. Not just any activities, mind you; these are all things that you either can’t do alone, are a total bummer to go solo on or would just be double the fun as a double.
At the moment Vodafone have a $30 prepaid cap which gives you double the data that you would normally get – with that extra 500MB bringing you up to 1GB – and gives us the perfect excuse to provide an alternative to this batty list of ‘things never to do alone’ which we found on oprah.com (which we read, for the articles)((and for Oprah<3)):
wot? NO I WON’T.
Now, for our list, grab a partner…It’s time to begin – now count it in…5, 6, 7, 8!
Summer Fling
Solo Summer Lovin’ is decidedly not a blast. You’ve got to get a someone, just for the summer. They’ll be summery. They’ll have hair. They’ll have summery friends who know how to be outside. They’ll play tennis and wear dresses and have bare feet, and in the autumn, you’ll ditch them, because they’re your summer fling!
BBQ
To be clear, ‘BBQ’ as it refers to the social barbecue gathering and not just ‘BBQ Food’, because you can definitely BBQ some food on up and eat it alone. The Aussie BBQ however, much like backyard cricket, is a team sport; otherwise who would you sit around with / tell a few yarns to / have a cold beer with?
Still w8ing.
Frisbee
Sure, throwing around a frisbee is not the worst thing for you to do by yourself, it would mostly just be hard for anyone else to watch you do alone 🙁
Outdoor Cinema
Not unlike the ‘indoor cinema’, the ‘outdoor cinema’ is all about viewing movies and can certainly be attended alone but ridin’ solo does mean you have no one to debrief with afterwards. Also, in an outdoor setting, who will mind your beanbag when you go to the bar? Those things are val.u.a.ble. Phone a friend to go with.
Karaoke Duets
Considering there is no ‘i’ in Nelly and Kelly you would have quite the Dilemma should you want to sing a heartfelt duet all by your lonesome. On the upside you do get to really test your vocal ability and reach as an actor (chance to play multiple roles) but on the downside there’s no one there to make cutesy faces @ while you bash it out on the mic.
Baby vamos viajar.
Water Bomb Fight
Without other people you’re just a person who is filling up small coloured rubber sacks with water, only to then try and throw them at/on yourself, ending with you wet and alone for absolutely no reason at all.
Skydiving
‘Unless you are a trained Professor of Skydiving you cannot go alone, you must go in tandem, or else you will probably forget to pull the thing on the backpack and then you will go squish’ – every Skydiving Handbook ever.
Board Games
Especially Monopoly, you can’t destroy your family and/or friendship groups all alone.
Road Trip
Would you just look at how much early-90s fun you could be having as a denim-clad, convertible-riding twosome:
Can you?
Even?
For more on Vodafone’s sweet deals during this, the silliest of seasons, head here.
