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“You know that there are three types of fun,” Peter said, bushwacking onward.
“Hey, bear!” I responded. We were trying to return to his sailboat—home to a cooler of cold beers.
Peter kept going, and described the Fun Scale.
And fun is incredibly subjective:
Into which category a given experience falls, of course, is highly subjective and highly subject to shifts (particularly from III to II) born of the rosy reflections afforded us by the passage of time.
Type 1 Fun
This is just good-old-fashion fun.
Type 2 Fun
Type 2 fun is miserable while it’s happening, but fun in retrospect. It usually begins with the best intentions, and then things get carried away. Riding your bicycle across the country. Doing an ultramarathon. Working out till you puke, and, usually, ice and alpine climbing. Also surely familiar to mothers, at least during childbirth and the dreaded teenage years.
Related: Losing is fun!
Type 3 Fun
"What in the hell was I doing?" types of fun.