Story Time!
This one is called.....
The Blueprints of Gaining Think Fuel with Tree Cover.
Yesterday, I received a call about going to pick up a check up in Romeoville. Cool!
At about the same time, a new guy named
@iOne pops onto the Nut! Word's were exchanged and I called him a "shithead"!
So by the end of the night I found out iOne is from right up there where I had to go. Joliet! So we managed to set a possible meet up if it worked out. Bike Rack, three o'clock kinda thing.
I pull into a gas station and buy a White Sox car adapter, with a White Sox cable, 2 cartons a Newport Hunad Box and a Cherry Fucking Coke! Dr. Pepper is a Proctologist, he belongs in the can.
I get to the Bank parking lot 6 minutes early, because punctuality counts. My foreman shows up a few minutes later yelling at my other guy, Frankie. He was going to be late, wanted my foreman to give his check to me. You see, I lent Frankie a pack of squares(fags), so I had to talk to him anyway. I was also hanging out for a while, to meet iOne.
I don't know if it's the way I look, with my beard tied in some crazy hillbilly beardy tail type thing. Maybe it was the foreman and his neck tats, in a look-at-me F-250. Somehow, I had already passed the blueprints back to my foreman, and You Know Who pulls up into the lot.
Fitty, scrilla, POPO, 6 year old Autistic child Murderers....(oh you didn't know?)
Then at that most opportune moment, Frankie shows up. In an Avalanche just old enough to be a Rammer, in gangster shades, and your general Bridgeport attire. The image you see in your head when you listen to the news about Chiraq....yeah that's Frankie! A good dude, with kids, who got his shit together, but hood. In it deep enough to see a friend buried just the other week.
We ditched the foreman and I went to Petco to text iOne, hoping that Swine left in the meantime. After a few back and forths, we decided that spot was too hot to go dealing trees in, so we arranged a new place to meet.
I finished up with Frankie and made my way out.
I met up with iOne. More youthful than I imagined, I felt kinda old! We were able to chat for a few, as I expected, my man was just geeked to have found bonsai! Crazy is he found us so quick after!
Coolest thing is I met a 1 day old NUT!
The moral of that story...
Keep the Blueprints out on the Hood of the truck!
Side note
But Ok!
Let's talk about the in person Human interaction with a 1 day old NUT, who very recently found Bonsai!
It refreshed my understanding of the Newb!
What a great feeling!
I realized that if we are truly serious about wanting this Hobby to become more youthful....
And pack it full of fresh ideas....
And have a generation to "dote on" our trees....
We really really really have to better understand, Friggin remember, what it is to have a question every 15 seconds when we first started out.
These kids type on these things so fast, the standard keyboard is dead!
And in the excitement (pause, remember)
They'll ask those questions as soon as they come up!
This IS their Library!
This is their method.
We have a huge responsibility to take care of These newcomers...
Wether they are young or not!
The Moral of this Story.
I called iOne a shithead, I don't know if he read that yet when he PMd me, but my first reply was something like, "I hope you took that 'shithead' in jest, as it was intended".
He responded along the lines of....
'you know Thats how we roll here'
Day one Newb! Thanks for helping me prove that point!
Quote from Frankie to a dude from Indiana that we work with...
"Bro, if you can't handle ball bustin from where I'm from, you're gonna have a shitty life!"
Love from .....
Here.
Sorce
I was going to Alabama and had a good excuse to visit. He was gracious to welcome me.
. And I am also member of Grimmys phone a friend program.
