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Oops. Lowell Expected.
You know how it goes- you think a little, find a thought you like, fixate on it, expectations form around the thought… and then someone lights a fire under the whole thing.
I’ve been there and done that. Possibly you have too.
I saw a bear strip a ‘Lifeproof’ case off a phone once.
Cracked and peeled it like a banana with a single move.
The phone still worked after the zookeepers lured the bear to the other side of the enclosure and scooped the phone out of there.
I guess the case did its job, right?
Yay, Lifeproof!
Modifying is very important to those of us who just…can’t… keep… up with these young, fit people who insist on always being at workouts… It’s like they’re obsessed or something. I mean, if I had a strong, fit physique, I wouldn’t have to go to workouts every dang morning, now would I?
Oh, wait…
I get the sense that Mal has bought into the new role as boyfriend a little more than Shelly has bought into her new role as girlfriend.
Mal has gone from being a snivelly little shark to a simpering boy pal awfully quick. It’s almost as if he wanted that life and was waiting for it to show up.
I wonder how many of us fall into that sphere- creating our own little self-fulfilling prophesies and then being impressed that the universe finally obliged.
Shelly, on the other hand, is just doing the same dang thing she was doing at Sportsmart- jockeying for power under everyone’s radar. And she’s also hanging with Mal. That’s probably what she always felt the universe would provide.
I imagine that most epiphanies that occur in chain gyms involve upcharges and not having enough water and protein the day before. Or too much alcohol in general.
But of course, Lowell has a different mindset than all that. His mindset, unfortunately, involves big chain stores.
Paste overreaches. We know that. He’s not stupid, just enthusiastic to the point of taking everything a little far.
First he wants to ride a bike, then he wants to compete in a freestyle competition, but then he wants to zip-tie rockets to the bike and land a jump onto a stage where people can adore his abilities. A little far, you’ll agree.
First he wants to skate, then he wants to rule the skatepark, then he wants to build his own line of skate equipment that the people at the skatepark with beg for and fawn over while he skates away nonplussed. Also a little far.
Now, he wants to sell a skateboard, then he’s willing to break up the payments over time, then he’s ready to send thugs to do dirty deeds dirt cheap. Enthusiastic, you can see.
Paste may not have a been a Trainer. He was more of an Untrained, in the same sense that those in government are often referred to as the ‘Ungoverned’.
Anyhow, I’m sure plenty of you remember when Paste was ‘training’ Lowell before the first Outdoorfest?
Two heads are better than one. Kelly didn’t know how to abuse the appearance of Clem until Durnell tossed in his own notion. With the two of them talking, though, they came up with a horrific notion to turn the poor defenseless writer to a life of contrived evil…
Which makes one think… what will three heads be able to accomplish?
Heaven only knows.





















