Friday, November 20, 2009

He With The Most Lug Nuts Wins

Another Furlough Friday down Franklin Blvd. this afternoon, a day that couldn't have been better for bike riding. I made a mental note of the average gasoline price today ($2.87) and then thought about all that effort to ride back and forth to work...and it only saved me one gallon of gasoline. I saved three fucking dollars.

Less than three bucks a day...against a $50/hour salary...No wonder all my co-workers are driving Sequoias and Yukons...it's dirt cheap to operate them and you don't have to break a sweat. You are also supposedly safer -- he with the most lug nuts wins in an accident. My bicycle has no lug nuts....I won't ever win.

Nonetheless, today I rode by the newest self storage facility on Franklin Blvd., Extra Space Storage, and for the last two weeks they've had a wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube man outside in its newest advertising campaign. If your eye catches it just right you can see the sign the wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube man is holding -- 'first month rent is free.'

FREE?

Wa-hey!

"Honey, let's once and for all clean up the garage and off load some of that stuff into an off-site storage locker. Our skiing gear? We can load it up in the spring, and spring it out in the fall. Your late mother's hideously ugly beautiful electric mixing bowl collection? I know you don't want to get rid of all sixty seven of them, so how about we preserve those precious memories of her by storing them properly? My bum knee will someday get better, so I'll store my tennis racket in there, too. How about that extra computer printer we know we'll someday need when the current printer fritzes out? Yes, into the locker it goes. All our camping gear, the table saw I never seem to have time for using anymore, Aunt Martha's lamp...oh, and Aunt Martha's ashes..., my Foosball table, your old breast pump, my AMC Gremlin that I can't decide to restore or part out..."

And the wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube man will be our silent sentinel, providing 24/7 security for our precious stuff.

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