April 18, 2013

  • Learning to Fly


    They saw a big raven
    It glided down the sky
    She touched it
    Ohh...

    I try to be good, but I want to be a bird so I pretend that I can fly.  I try to follow the rules, but the world feels in slow motion and all my thoughts can catch up to me and why should it matter if they do.  There is nothing like taking hills and curves at 80, 85, 100 mph.  If I could, I would open the windows and listen to the wind blowing.  Let my arm hang out so I can feel the breeze.  However, I want to live and since my body thinks pollen is more dangerous to my body than inflammation, I breathe recycled air, I cannot.  I want to be a bird, just like the falcons and eagles that circled the sky above me.  I want to fly so arrived at my destination an hour and forty minutes early despite the fact I left later.  A bird, that's what I am and I can fly.

    Yes, sir I heard you revving your engine at me in your big truck with the Auburn vanity plates.  Don't think you intimidated me in the least.  Had I not been in a V4, I would have revved mine, too.  Had I not been in Auburn Country for civilized business, I would have smiled, flashed you, and left you in the dust.  I did leave you in the dust.  In a car with a V4 engine and if you were heading my way, I would have continued to leave you in the dust, in my V4 engine.  I may be a little bird, but I can still fly.  And oh, yes.  ROLL TIDE.

    Then there were many, many thoughts about people, places, and things I wish I could leave behind so I can't do the speed limit; not when there are hills and curves to conquer at flying speeds.

Comments (17)

  • @SlickRick297 - I'll take your word for it.

  • @Erika_Steele - Gravity has a way of helping you out with landing. 

  • @SlickRick297 - ROFL.  I knew where this story was heading.  I had a little brother who was convinced he could fly.  I would love to fly a plane, but my depth perception is screwed.  Landing would freak me out, but then I suppose you get used to it.

  • I tried flying like I was Superman when I was 4. Got dressed up in my Superman costume and got ready to go at the top of the stairs leading to the basement floor.

     As I lay face down in a puddle of blood and spit on the basement floor, absent of two front teeth I had assigned to my mouth only seconds before, I decided that I might want to become a pilot for my next attempt at flying.

  • @LadyboyRevolution - I can't find you. Add Me.

  • Add Me on Facebook sister!

  • @Grannys_Place -I just think it has to be the most awesome feeling in the world.  I've been dreaming of being a bird and I love it.  I definitely want to be a bird of prey, although cardinals are pretty fabulous, too.

    @bonmots - I never initiate it...anymore.  You don't want to flirt with people in cars.  It can get "scary". Lot's lip licking and rude gestures.  If I am in a traffic jam, it's fun to play dumb.  I act like I think they mean I have something on my lips....I need a camera for those times.

  • i'm deathly scared of heights

    i have often wondered what it would be like to flirt with someone in another car. probably not a good idea

  • I want to be an eagle, big and strong and in control of the sky.  I want to live about the clouds in the sunshine and away from human life.

  • @Erika_Steele - True. You'd definitely throw them off for a good head start. bahaha.

  • @hellokristenn - Engine revving at stop lights always means, "wanna race?"  and as long as my son isn't with me, I'm usually going to race....flashing is more distracting than giving dirty looks.  It gets a WTF? reaction 

  • @Erika_Steele - Fail. I pictured him revving his engine in the most asshole-like fashion possible. My reading comprehension level obviously sucks. and EW I wouldn't want to eat raw bird personally. The fast speed would be fantastic though.

  • @hellokristenn - and if I were a falcon, I could catch another bird at 100 mph.  I'd like that more than steak on any given day.

  • @laytexduckie - I was thinking of Tom Petty. I picked the Sugarcubes video b/c it was one of the songs I listened to on the way and it describes how I felt today.

  • @hellokristenn - Road rage???? This wasn't road rage, this was war and maybe flirting, too.  I had to show that War Eagle how the Tide rolls...even in a car with a wussy V4 engine.  That, and I had to beat him like a girl in a dress.

    No, road rage is reserved for those who pull in front of me and drive slow or that woman that was drunk or something and almost ran this person off the road 30 seconds before almost slamming her car into mine.  I am so glad there was no one in the lane I pulled into.

  • I thought of the Foo Fighters when I read the title.

  • I wouldn't want to be a bird. I don't think they get to eat steak very often. I like steak way too much. Flying would be cool though.

    Flashing someone when there's road rage involved?? What an interesting solution. Much more creative than flipping them off... I like it.

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