Good Morning Cold Blast of Water to the FACE!!!

So…first blog post (not introduction), gotta make it big. Needs to be that type of blog post that all of you followers can’t help but read.

Sadly though this is not going to blow your socks off or grab your attention like the fender bender on the side of the road we can’t help but slow down to look at. You know the ones where the guy is kicking the front of his car screaming obscenities about how it wasn’t his fault when clearly he rear-ended the person in front of him ala:

Anyways…so I had one of those slow down moments today on the way into work. If I’m 100% honest the morning didn’t start out that great. I got the motorcycle out of the garage to the hum of a bobcat running concrete back and forth to our backyard (getting a nice concrete patio put in). The thing is going to be great…but that bobcat has left a path of destruction through the yard from the driveway and back around to the backyard! Not cool, but whatever we knew it would happen.

Hop on the bike get about 100 yards down the street and I’m greeted with the cold blast of a sprinkler system that decided to come on just as I drove by! I mutter to myself, “Man this day is going to be great…”

However, as I’ve said it is when we slow down and take in the world around us that we have the chance to see the silver linings all around us. I drove on a little further until up ahead I noticed a pickup with its flashers on and the hood up. I left a little earlier than normal so having a few spare moments I pull in behind the truck and walk up to a frustrated man under the hood.

Upon asking if he needed help he replied with, “Nope I’m good, actually a mechanic for a living and know exactly what’s wrong. Thanks though, nice to know people still out there willing to help, you’re actually number 4 to stop already.”

How awesome is that, 4!

This nation is so messed up economically, we argue more than anything, crime rate is increasing, you can’t ride in the back of a pick-up but the government can spend money they don’t have, we keep rewarding those who hardly work with the money from those who work hard…but for that moment this morning the world seemed a little better; made me feel just slightly better about the human race as I finished my ride into work.

I could have just driven on by (like we all do too often) and missed that chance, but look what I would have missed…chalk up another one for slowing down…

ALSO GOT A SURPISE VISIT FROM THIS LITTLE BOOGER IN THE MIDDLE AT WORK TODAY!

Keep on keepin' on folks.