This has been buried into the deep recesses of my brain. It is the one story I still cringe about when I speak of. Last summer I was working at a Marina, and I had to drive a customer to the public launch on the other side of the lake. All of our trucks alwways had the keys sitting in them. Well, I pick the nice truck to take the guy in, keys are in there of course, and we have a jolly good time driving to the launch and back. When I get back a dude that sells us parts is looking about ready to kick the shit out of some poor teenager. I realized at that moment, that it was not in fact my Marina's truck, but this guy's. I get out ready to have my arse beaten to a pulp, and it very nearly happened. I've rarely been so scared for my life. Apparently the thing was his baby (as in cleaned it every two days).
The moral of the story? If there is a stoner who works at the Marina you park at, take the keys with you.
"She loved snow...That was the simple objective, being airborne, up longer, higher, more casually and with more fuckoff elegance than anyone else...Such endeavours require a kind of egotism, a near autistic narrowness. Everything conspires against you, the habits of physics, the impulse to flee and you're weighted down by every dollop of commonsense ever dished up. Everyone will tell you your goal is impossible, pointless, stupid, wasteful. This idiot resolve is all you have."
-Tim Winton
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