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Sunday, August 30, 2015
Thinning The Herd #4 ... And Counting
So. Today I was noodling my way up the Spars. As I turn to summit MP 305 I see a collection of vehicles and people standing around on the side of the road.
Honestly, how do people manage to crash into the side of a mountain when going uphill?!
Today's lucky winner is a fellow who said, when I asked how did it happen: "I dunno. It just turned on it's own into the dirt."
On it's own. His motorcycle "turned on it's own."
Is that a hallucination? Something to do with God on Sunday? Evil spirits? Bad joo-joo?
Reminds me of when I was changing one of my son's diapers years ago. "Ooh. Who pooped in your pants?" "Uhhh. I dunno?"
So. I asked the (surviving) motorcyclist: "Your head is bleeding. Did the EMT's look at that?"
HIM: "Nah. `m'alright."
ME: "Did your helmet take the brunt of the hit?"
HIM: "What helmet?"
Several miles later I come across another motorcyclist on the side of the road. His motorcycle is half on and half off the road. He sees me and walks my way so I stop. He's wearing what looks like a Gucci `Outlaw Biker' leather vest and a faux dirty headband. The vest doesn't quite cover his drooping belly in his "Harley Davidson" $75 t-shirt.
ME: "You o.k.?"
HIM: "Oh yah. I'm fine."
ME: "Can I help?"
HIM: "You got some gas?" "Ha." "Ha."
ME: (Pregnant extended silence as I stare at him) "Gas?"
HIM: "Yah. I just run outta gas."
ME: (A certain incredulous look on my face). "Umm. Uh. No. But I got half a Power Bar. You want that?" (Get it? Power bar?)
HIM: (Ignoring my offer). "How you ride that thing? Looks real uncomfortable."
ME: (Still incredulous look) "Umm. I'm o.k."
A motorcycle.
He's out of gas.
On a hill.
I know I shouldn't have said this but ....
ME: (Attempting to be humorous): "For the right money I'll give you a pull."
HIM: "Ha."
With a string of cases like this one must conclude that staying alive is insanely easy in today's world. We lack meaningful predators, there hasn't been a good plague in decades (centuries really), and wars have been relegated to armored ballets design more to burn off hardware to create demand to feed the military industrial complex than to actually accomplish anything.
ReplyDeleteWinston Churchill once said that the loudest argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
So did the Harley Dude pay you for the Powerbar?