Thursday, October 14, 2010

Warp Speed

I remember this one time where my friend Alex and I were walking to Target at Polaris. It
was a cold winter day, where the winds were so icy that they were like whips whenever they
hit. Alex and I at the time were not able to drive, but we knew we wanted to go to Target! Anyways, this memory refers to an event that occurred along the way that I will hopefully never forget.
As we almost arrived at our destination, we came across a snow mound in the parking lot in front of the Lowe’s store. The snow mound had been at least seven feet high, and was probably 12 or so feet in diameter. Think of a mini mountain and that what this mound was. Both of us looked at the mound and I decided, “I got an idea“. Some idea this turned out to be. My idea was to try sliding down the more gradual side. So I climbed the up and got on top of the mound. I was thinking how cool it would be if I actually successfully had been able to slide down the side. Well, actually I fell on my butt at the start and experienced something like no other! The rush! It was incredible. The sheer, speed at which the sliding had happened… it was instantaneous.
I imagine it was a lot like traveling through space, you know, how cartoons portray travel in outer space as warp or something like that. Alex was just kind of watching these whole four or five seconds. In that time he declared to himself that I was lame and that he had to show as he put it, “Let me show you how it’s done.” And then he decided to try it and he too fell on his butt. When he reached the bottom, where I had been sitting, he said, “wow.” And then we looked at each other for a few seconds and then we broke out like hyenas in laughter. “That was awesome man!” I said. “It was, man that was good!” And then we were on our way.

5 comments:

  1. I like this story. It simple and enjoyable. I like your metaphor about the mound.

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  2. Oh my gosh! You are crazy for walking to target! I would never be able to do that, especially in the winter! I liked how your writing flows from paragraph to paragraph.

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  3. This sounds like sooooo much fun!!!
    I really like the sentence with the analogy to the cartoon space travel. It really gives me a mental picture of how this would be.

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  4. This is an awesome story. That's something me and my friends would have done. I like your first paragraph when your talking about walking to Target in the winter. It's almost like your there!

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  5. Pebs!!!! This story was awesome! It sounds like somethig me and my friens hwould do! I love how you descirbe teh snow and the wind, it created a great picture in my head!

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