Big And Bad (248 hits)
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Submitted by runninginplace (View user info) at 2004-10-11 23:58:13 EDT
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Did you ever want anything so bad, you couldn't sleep? Did you ever stay awake obsessing about some item? I did. Ever since I knew how to drive, I wanted this one pick-up. My dream vehicle was a Ford F-150. I wanted eight cylinders with four-wheel drive. It was going to be big, bad, and one hundred percent kick-ass.
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The pick-up wasn't the first thing I obsessed over. The first thing I can remember wanting so badly I could actually feel it, was a He-Man outfit. When I say outfit, I really mean shirt and underwear. Hey, screw you, I was five and the commercial tricked me. The kid on TV put the underwear and shirt on and magically transformed into He-Man. My entire existence from the moment I saw that commercial was devoted to obtaining that outfit. I begged my parents for it for weeks. When I finally got it for Christmas, I was ecstatic. My glee turned to tears quite quickly. I discovered, much to my dismay that I wasn't going to turn into He-Man. My dreams shattered, my mother explained commercials to me.
I really didn't learn my lesson. My next great fixation was Crossfire. That game was so cool. Actually, after another Christmas, I discovered it was only cool on TV. In real life it more or less blew. Not only was the game boring, but it was unfair. One side had an advantage: only one gun shot straight. It also turned out that after assembly you couldn't take it apart to store it. The damn thing is still on the top shelf in my old bedroom closet.
As the years went by I gathered various things I "just had to have." There were cheaper things like knives or the crossbow. Then there were things like my $200 rollerblades, $700 dollar camera, and my $3000 bowflex. I saved and worked for everything I bought, but what a waste.
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Of course my greatest fixation was the truck. Unfortunately I ended up with a Chevy Custom Deluxe instead. Half of the horses that were in were had been put down. The others were foundered. Oh well, I can still dream of my big, bad pickup.
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