Out of this stupid premise, a ridiculously amusing book was born. For years, he was wont to tell the tale during late-night drinking matches, and after one particularly heavy-duty night of partying, he awoke to find a bet scrawled pillow-side: a friend wagered 100 pounds that Hawks wouldn't travel Ireland for a month with a refrigerator at his side. On his only prior visit to Ireland, songwriter/comic Tony Hawks had seen a man hitchhiking with a refrigerator.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The people he meets, the difficulties, the triumphs, The Fridge. This book is the story of Tony's adventures through that incredible month. 'I hereby bet Tony Hawks the sum of One Hundred Pounds that he cannot hitch around the circumference of Ireland with a fridge within one calendar month. The next morning there is a note by his bed. It is, he insists, 'a magical place', so magical in fact, that a man could even get a lift with a fridge. Until one night, heavy with drink, he finds himself arguing about Ireland with a friend. but the fridge incident haunts our author. 'I had clearly arrived in a country', writes Tony, 'where the qualification for 'eccentric' involved a great deal more than that to which I had become used'.
This seemed amazingly optimistic - his Irish friends, however, thought nothing of it at all. Whilst in Ireland for an International Song Competition, Tony Hawks was amazed to see a hitch-hiker trying to thumb a lift, but with a fridge.
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