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March 23, 2007
The Boat
I'm out on the lake and Marty tells me to take the wheel but I don't know how to drive a boat. A boat is a funny thing. It doesn't have brakes and there's no lines painted on the river or the lake. No passing lanes and no shoulders. So it's not like driving a car. Not at all, really. And I slide down into this seat in the cockpit and there's this little windshield in front of me and it slopes back and when I shove the throttle down all the way the nose of the boat rises like Icarus to touch the sun and I can't see anything. I'm accelerating down the river blindly, praying theres nothing in front of the boat and pretending like I know what I'm doing. I can't see anything and I'm sweating like a whore in church and I fiddle with the engine trim and gradually the nose comes down but even now, I still can't see much. Imagine trying to drive a Greyhound bus down the interstate from...oh say about... row number six.
For the rest of the story, buy my book "Killing Strangers".
Posted by Rob Kiser on March 23, 2007 at 8:58 PM
Comments
You are a wise man, my friend...
Posted by: Uzi on March 27, 2007 at 9:20 AM