But it was a beautiful Sunday morning in this cosmopolitan playground so I took off for a thirst-inducing walk.
My mother had bought Murphy for me during a semester that I took off from college and lived at home in Alabama.
So at the gun, I took off like a scalded dog and hit the mile in 4: 50, about 50 yards out front.
The youth tournament was only in its third year when I took off for a summer adventure with the Antrim Town U14 team in 1985.
So I took off my shirt and wrapped it around my head to help me breathe and it worked, but my eyes were stinging real bad.
There are no cars allowed on beach so they looked after my luggage as the driver and I took off to look for the hotel on foot.
Since it was almost deserted I took off my clothes and swam for ages, tasting the sweet water of the Thames on my lips and watching the bugs skitter over the surface.
As I was trying to catch my breath, I took off my shirt, looked in the mirror and tried to convince myself that I was still that fit guy I had always thought I was.
And, financially, having a child later in life, I reasoned, would allow me to build my earning potential more than if I took time off when I was younger (of course, I also ran the risk of increased costs in the event I needed fertility treatments).
"Finally (when I) knew that I won, I just took off my mask with a facial expression that my friend said looked like I had just woken up because I was still concentrating!"
And here's the biggest surprise of the Evoque: not its off-road chops fact is, I never took it off-road, so I'm like 99% of potential buyers but its handling in spirited driving.
Our initial reconnaissance hadn't been very fruitful on the water, so I just took off.
My brothers and I took time off work for medical appointments and hospice care.
Then the new med they put me on had a very bad reaction so I took myself off it.
"For lack of a better plan I just took off and ran for my life and crossed the finish line, " she said.
Next day was Christmas Day itself and I took myself off to Cholon, Saigon's Chinatown, to chill out away from all the commercialism.
To avoid nausea, I took myself off to the nearby Sagano restaurant on Le Thanh Ton Street in the little Japan area and ordered a Maguro Shoga.
And finally -- yeah, I got -- you, fanning, you see, I took my sweater off. (Laughter.) Finally, I want to thank all of you for taking the time to be here with us today.
"I took my mother off it, " says David Brown, head of cardiology at SUNY Stony Brook Medical Center.
"I took my eye off the ball, " said Mr Hosker.
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Halfway through the year I took a week off and flew to Turkey on my first press trip to see if I would actually like travelling full-time and traipsing around a new destination every day.
"I never took the hand off the trigger, " he said during the taped confession.
Certainly on weekends I did a lot of writing, and I took some vacation time off and did writing.
"I filled up the gas can, I have water, I have peanut butter, and I took the rocking chairs off the front porch, " she said.
So I took a little time off, went to the Rolling Stones concert Wednesday night and flew out here Sunday morning for the new member orientation.
"So I went back to where I played it from, but I went two yards further back and I took, tried to take two yards off the shot of what I felt I hit, " Woods told reporters Friday.
Fifteen minutes later, the plane took off and I glanced back to see why it was so quiet.
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