I went to Paeroa on scoot, went with the Mt Eden MC shop guys (loads of newish jap crotch rockets) - this guy turns up, looked a bit rough, on a shit hot late 70's, early eighties oil boiler. A few people looked at him like he wasn't cool enough - got talking to him, he turned out to be a frigging good guy to yarn to. And unlike more than a few of the well heeled lot, he could actually ride in a straight line and through the bendy bits...
I don't have parents, but my informally adopted Dad type is a rank looking old fella with a shaggy beard with a SoCal accent. People look at him like he's a bit odd - but he's actually a qualified no shit rocket scientist who used to work on cool shit like ICBM's and the space programme. Point is, don't judge a book etc... The rough old buggers are the ones with the best stories. Plus, anyone who lived through the 60's and 70's got laid and took more drugs than all us young people combined.
Rant over.
Its diametrically opposed to the sanitised existence of the Lemmings around me in the Dilbert Cartoon hell I live in; its life at full volume, perfect colour with high resolution and 10,000 watts of amplification.
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