and a go-cart for free

-view from my window-

we have a next door neighbor who is a bit eccentric. he has a really old honda crx just chillin in the backyard. bill asked him what the deal with it was. he said some jumbled chinglish about trying to install a new engine in it and went back to welding his next exhaust system on his truck. real cool dude.
we rented gran turismo 4 to celebrate getting the business' taxes done and mailed on friday. we spent the better part of friday night modifying cars and working our way up through the ranks of the game. saturday bill goes back to the kitchen to get a beverage. ace is at the back porch. henry, the eccentric chinaman neighbor has just given ace his old go-cart. say what? a go-cart for free. every adolescent boy's dream and we don't have to pay for it. sure, we're in our mid twenty's, but that doesn't mean we don't want to do time trials in the back alley behind our house.

-under my porch-

won't start. henry keeps giving pointers over the fence. "try spray on carborateur," handing a can of spray gasoline to bill. doesn't work. "sand spark plug," he says with a broken smile handing some sandpaper over. still no good. it gets dark. we put her away for the evening. go back inside and race and modify our fantasy nintendo cars. bill does research on the internet and calls his genius brother-in-law who can fix anything even if he is 1000 miles away. we go to play soccer sunday and bill stays behind to work on the cart. we come back and he's driving it through the alley. he got it a new spark plug and did a couple other little things. changed the oil. got all three of them horses running. now there's talk amongst the group about getting another engine to power the right wheel as the current one only pulls the left wheel and some other mods. i should ask bill if we can turbo charge it and get it up to like 30 horsepower. that would just be too fast and dangerous. but we're still little boys inside and that sounds like it might be perfect.

mike and jon after taking it out on clark street and "opening it up."
notice the upside down corvette body. it's supposed to go over the whole thing but i think we like the look of it just stripped down right now. we should paper mache a delorean body on it and see what happens when we push it up to 88 mph. then we'd really be the dorks of the block.
here's a few questions: which one of us will get hurt first? who will get hurt the worst? and who will get laid because we have a go-cart first?
probably ace, ace, and jon.

take it to heart,
b