eat red meat

and enjoy the compete

Do you commute? If so, how?

Me?

I’ve had to go to a part of the world where parking is both limited and expensive. Traffic in the morning is anything but terrific despite how similar these words look to me on the screen.

So lately, I’ve begun every day by riding my bike to work.

It’s been pretty swell starting the day by doing something that I love in order to do something else that I love.

But on the way, I’m playing a bit of a game.

You see, whenever I get on my bike and am riding in traffic, I’m in a race.

I’m racing with every other person out there on a bike. No matter where, who or when, if I see someone in front of me, I feel a huge desire to reel them in.

I could be going on two hours of sleep and no food, if I see someone in ahead of me, I drop the hammer and do everything in my power to pass the motherfucker.

Zeke says that I’m a Class 5 racer - meaning I’m not in a race but attempting to race everyone else without them even having an inkling that I’m competing with them.

But most of the stories in our head around any goals or games of status are just this - class five races.

We’re all out there attempting to reel in and surpass the dick ahead of us in one way or another and they likely don’t even know it.

For some, it’s a bike.

For others, it’s with money.

These days there a whole lotta people who like to do it with virtue, progressiveness or a sense of nobility of action or purity of purpose.

And ya know what?

Whenever I pass someone who doesn’t know that I’m racing them on a bike, I yelp, cheer and let them know that I just kicked their arse in the greatest bike race that they didn’t even know they were in.

Wouldn’t it be lovely if we all took the time to gloat more and be explicit about the bullshit status games that we play and win with other people who aren’t there in the race with us?

That would be fun.

Almost as much fun as it would be to take those we vanquish and stick them in a catapult and launch them into oblivion.

Dare to dream eh?

Eat red meat and enjoy the compete.

Big, but tender

or

Big butt tender.

(giggity)