Day Five: Austin

Our second day on the O.S.U. campus was a much more successful venture. We took the advice from Denise and brought along a jug full of water that we gave to people if they answered a question. Luckily it was a really hot and sticky day on the oval, so we got a lot of takers for water and a lot of questions. We started off the day with a really philosophical question "If you know nothing, but you are aware that you know nothing, what do you know?" Then a couple of shirtless guys came over and asked if they could have some water, but I told them they had to answer a question first. So while Sam was responding to the very deep question, I was answering Ohio trivia (what's the state flower? how far did OSU soccer go in the playoffs two years ago? etc). Seeing the deep indepth discussion between sam and the first kid, the shirtless wonders asked what his question was and I told them. "woah dude, that's deep?" and then they walked away.

We also met two sisters who were out sun bathing. They were laying out right in front of us, one was a freshman and one was a junior. When they had their backs facing us, I noticed that the freshman had a tattoo of the globe on her back. I was a little puzzled by this choice of body art. I thought she just must get lost a lot while she's traveling, but the tattoo was on her back, which would defeat the purpose of using as a map. They had a lot of different questions and were very nice people, I just didn't understand the choice of tattoo and it bothered me, a lot.

One of my favorite moments occurred while sitting in the Oval. Another one of the many shirtless guys asked us a question that had been bothering him for quite some time apparently: "So let's say the hottest girl in the world comes up to and says she'll have sex with you, but only if you let her stick her finger up your butt. Would you go along with it?" Sam and I looked at each other, both a little bit surprised. We clarified that this was indeed the hottest girl in the world and she didn't have razor blades for fingers, and then both agreed we would both go along with it but were a little worried about what else she would want to do if that was one of the stipulations. His friends then came over and asked what question he'd asked. "Ok so the hottest girl in the world comes up to you- then his friends interrupted " Come on, not the butt hole question again. Apparently this was a popular query of his.

I never realized how much of an attraction the OSU campus was for christian solicitors. There was one guy who was there when we got there and still there when we were finished. He sat in a lawn chair, bible in hand, and with preacher like rhetoric and rhythm began to pontificate about abortion. I went over to listen to the guy, and I really didn't listen to much of the hot air he was blowing but I did find out that he came here quite often. His record was apparently 8 hours, and he always seemed to bring around a crowd. Half the time I couldn't tell if he was serious, and I still question whether he actually believed the stuff that was coming out of his mouth or he just saying stuff to get a rise out of the students who were vehemently stating their cases. We were also approached by the man Sam described in his entry who was also another christian solicitor. Sam and I had planned to go to a church, but it seems all the christians are coming to us.