I don't believe I've made it through a whole dang month in the last 45 years that some wise soul hasn't accosted me with the un-asked for burden of their denigrating wisdom.
It's not just a motorcycle thing... it's about just 'bout every piece and part of living.
Where does that sort of arrogance come from?
Now let me say right here, I say a lot here 'bout what I think is good, and what I think is bad... and the ways and trails I've found in my search to find more of the good and less of the bad... FOR ME!
BUT... I figure if a body came here... they were lookin' for my ramblings... my Oh-pin-yun about something or other.
... and I didn't rope 'em off the street and force 'em to listen neither! ... I'm not grabbin' 'em by the arm and squealin' about what weak brained droolers they are... just sayin'.
Now... if I
ASK a person what they think of this... or what they think of that... I can't complain 'bout the answers I get... and generally I get enough of a variety of responses that I can sift out the sensible answer I'm lookin' for.
It's all those towering intellects, with their sou-peer-ee-ore brain functions, that stink of pomposity, self appointing themselves to dump their un-soh-lisss-i-ted advisements on me like a tsunami of bovine fertilizer; that I did this wrong or I'm screwin' up that ... that frosts my spleen and kinks my bean in a knot.
Where in the hell do folks find the arrogance to even think that
THEY KNOW BETTER what pleases
ANYBODY? They know what pleases their own selves. They know what works for them... and they know what they don't like... and that's all they know.
They ain't got the sliver of the shadow of a clue what motivates me... what I need and what I want... unless I tell 'em. It tickles my liver to a rolling boil when they come back at me...
after I've filled 'em in with a few of those lil' tidbits about ME... that; "No you're wrong! That's Not true!"...
Seriously? I'm what? Too
STUPID to know what makes me smile and what makes my liver flip?
I ride to
FEEL the wind, the rain, the cold, the heat, the dust, the scent of the pines... I want to experience life... not get
Told what it feels like by those who had the cajones to hang it in the wind and know it first hand.
"No" they say
. "You need this and that and the other to protect and isolate you from all those things..."
Thanks... I guess I was too damn stupid to know what I want...
NO... I don't
NEED those things you say I do...
YOU do.
If windshields and fairings... and grip heaters... and electric underwear... and abs brakes and computer operated instant inflation airbag vests and all such accoutrements twist your throttle, I am as happy for you as a furloughed sailor with a full months pay in his pocket finding a discount whore house.
But please,
STOP trying to convince me, by way of self inflation and
ad hominem assaults (didn't know I knew any of those educated words did ya?) that ya'll know better what I like, what appeals to me... and what is better for me... Than I do.
Guess what? I stop listening juuuuuust 'bout the time you fire off the phrase, or something like it; "You HAVE TO"... or ... "You NEED TO"... or "You'd be BETTER OFF if"... arrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh...
JEEEEESUS Cuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrimmmmmineeeeeeeeee! I got juuuuust a few active neurons still zingin' around in the Ol' Brain pan. I've kept myself on top of the grass through things that would kill a heavy percentage of the ones claimin' brighter bulbs than mine... and bailed their types out far more than the opposite... SO... I do believe I'm qualified to choose what I wear... and what I sit behind when I'm splittin' the wind on a scooter... and how I live the whole of my life for that matter.
If I ask for an opinion about this or that, or for a soliloquy about your experience with such or the other... by all means pipe up... but if ya'll just want to bestow on such feeble minded as me the precious jewels of your infallible wisdom about how I ain't got the sense to pee in a bucket...
... Bite your tongue...and Give that sucker a freakin' Rest!
Grab Your Handles and Ride
Brian
