Hardbooting in powder
Contributed by kjl. December 2007.
Ken wrote me a letter:
A few of us here have been talking, and we really think you have a problem, and that you need to admit it so that you can get help. We're here for you, as your friends, but we need you to make serious life changes to get your life back on track, to be a full, healthy human being again, so that you can be happy, instead of just pretending to be happy when really we know you're hurting inside.
Hardbooting in powder is just unhealthy, and it really hurts us spiritually and emotionally to see you just engaging in self-destructive bahavior like that. It hurts like when I see white people drenching their rice in soy sauce, or what French people must feel when I don't drink wine with my French Fries, or what you must feel when I eat kielbasa with ketchup instead of, uh, Polish mustard or whatever that horseradish stuff is called.
If you don't get some softboots on that powstick and ride it the next time you get dumped on, I can't honestly say that I know where we'll stand as friends next season. I mean, it hurts to say, but I just can't stand to see you on this downward spiral, and in addition, this hardbooting in powder thing is just, you know, and I hate to say it, morally reprehensible to me.
Heh, just kidding, except for what I wrote in the last 3 paragraphs.
Seriously, you've got the wrong tool for the job in the powder; you could be riding a magic floating carpet that surfs you to where you want to go or you could be struggling to move all those long lever joints all over the place and concentrating on unweighting and crap like that.
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Scott on the Prior 4WD