Exhibit A: the Mo Ho.
This motor home has seen more stories that cannot be repeated, either for lack words to describe it, or lack of memory. While this monstrosity may run on gasoline it is fueled by beer, booze, and good times. It has seen summertime block parties and IceMan Cometh frozen tailgates and everything in between. It has been left at bars and caught on fire. I've been on this bus countless times (countless because i'm not sure i want to admit to being in its presence but can't deny the fun that it brings) and every time it is around it makes an indelible mark on each person who boards her. Yes, some of my belongings have been lost to her in the name of good, clean fun. Not sure i'd want them back after that anyway. Someone claimed they put a lot of money into it this year. Yeah, i can tell (sarcastic font). Good point... the sound system i guess. But through it all this trooper on wheels brings the fun. Like the USPS but all about fun. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays this courier from the swift completion of its appointed rounds.Exhibit B: the eyes
All the people in this picture have it. While some eyes may be glassier than others, they've all got that glint of excitement in them. While we all look at the summer with fondness we embrace the shortening of the days and the coming of cold nights. This is the glint of GNAR. While the IceMan Cometh mountain bike race may be the kickoff to the winter season, it takes a different kind of person to come out and celebrate not only the mud soaked riders but the season where koozies now keep your hands warm instead of your beverage cold. Talk ranges from football games, to family, to upcoming marriages, to whiskey, to the impending snow, frozen sports, and frozen toes. Note: if you invite a girl from Orlando you should also prepare her for the weather by: A. getting her warm socks, gloves, etc or B. getting her lots of drinks. To do any less is bad form. She definitely did not have the glint of GNAR in her eye. Just perhaps the glint of disdain screaming 'get me back to 90deg weather!'Look around next time you are out and about and see the eyes. They either have it. Or they don't. The winter is coming. And the eyes have it...
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