Vroom, Vroom, Vroom!

kirby-dirby is finally back on the road. it took awhile. a long long while. i was even starting to be a bit suspect of the intentions of the said crap car driver. so much excuses in such a long period of time does numb one to the fact that it is possible, quite possible that one got stiffed big time. what can i say? not much point in getting police assistance really. their only concern is IF there is loss of life or grievous bodily harm. so a small dent with scrapped paint across the door hardly constitutes a national emergency. no chance to see the local S.W.A.T team swarm into my crap neighbours place to pepper him in a spray of hot projectile. it got to the point where i myself, a known and muched loved optimist, began to question the very foundation of the faith in mankind as a whole.

now i don't claim to see the world through rose tinted glasses. there will always be people with bad and ugly intentions, that we cannot deny or ignore, truth be told i am probably one of the few in the world who can truly say that, i wholely believe in the goodness of the common man. but after a long period of staring at my damage car sitting outside the house, i concluded that i would have to bear the cost of getting my ride fixed myself. visions of me crashing through his front glass door in a hail of glass shrapnel with my war-mace to bludgeon him to death in his semi-sleep state plagued me.

i could have just taken my baseball bat in my backseat to dent his car back, but that would have been way too passe for me. unless he actually saw me doing it, the whole point of denting his car would have been missed. i would have dented every panel of his car, riddled his hood with screw driver punctures, slashed his tyres, poured oil-based paint all over before taking a dump on his roof. i would have considered that to be a statement from me and not a mindless act of retaliation.

but it turned out, he made good a promise made. long it may be. but it was kept. kirby-dirby returned from the panel-beater spotless and dent free. all good.

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high.