Cool Story

[Z]

Just thought I would post this over here for anyone who doesn't check powmag anymore....Credit goes to Tad McCowski for this....


It's kind of funny how you can go from walking around with nothing but lint in your pocket and being totally stoked, to walking around with a pocket full of keys and being totally bummed.

It starts out simply and seductively. I'll just get this car so I can snowboard(insert skiing)more. Wrong. Anything that let's you snowboard more is a scam. It won't let you snowboard more because you ride every day and a car can't add days to the week.

"I'll just get this little night job so I can buy gas." you hear yourself saying. There's another key. Then your job starts making you miss sleep, so you can't snowboard as hard or as long as you used to do. You need stuff to wear to work. You need a place to change and store your stuff. Now you have an address, that's another key. Soon you have to get a day job because you're not making enough money at night. The keys start adding up.

Now that you have a job, girls know you're not a total loss and you end up with a girlfriend. She wants you hang with her once in awhile instead of going boarding all the time. First, she gives you the key to her heart and then the key to her apartment.. That's two more. You can't give her the key to your heart because snowboarding put a combination lock on it and only your snowboard knows the number.

Now you have a bunch of keys in your pocket. They're high maintenance items. You have to take care of them. They're weighing you down. Snowboarding is slowly slipping away and you don't even notice.

One day, cruising to your full time office job that you had to get a few years back to make payments on all your keys, you drive past a guy on the corner with his thumb out and a snowboard under his arm. While speeding by you start thinking about the guy you just passed. He looked like you used to- snowboard and nothing else. As you pull into the parking lot at work, you can't get the hitch hiker out of your head. Your mind keeps wandering back. Pulling all the keys out of your pocket and jingling them, you think about what you really want from life.

Running back to your car, you reverse out of the parking lot and squeal a Rockford in the middle of the four lane highway. You've got to get away from your keys. You begin throwing them out the window as you blow down the highway. First to go is the key to the door at work. Then you backhand your girlfriend's apartment key out the passenger window. Flick, there goes the key to the storage unit, then the key to her car. Flick, flick, flick. You feel better each time a key flies out the window and goes bouncing along the pavement at 100 MPH. You don't even slow for the toll booth, paying instead with the tossed keys to your office and the execuetive washroom. You only have two keys left. You unlock your house, run in, grab your snowboard, and dash out of the house. You leave the key to your house sitting in the lock to the front door. Whoever finds the house open can take it, and all your stuff. You don't need it anymore. You jump back to the highway where you saw the hitcher.

He's still there. You slam on the brakes. When he opens the car door, you look into his eyes. It's you. It's the life you left behind when you sold out.

To those that played hookie from the rat race today. I say get some.

[MacDaddy]

good post, kinda sounded like a spearhead song for a paragraph or two.

I'm stuck in the race today my final day of 13 out of 14 10-17 hour days

[gonzo]

awesome. and that is coming from a gerbil in a wheel.