this, friends and family, is a bike wheel with a new tube inside a new tire that has been fully fixed on the rims. it is something i have not seen for a few weeks. notice the sunlight shining on the wheel, as the clouds parted while i achieved the last wedge of tire into place and the music swelled on my speakers. it was meant to finally be. god and the laws of nature were finally ready to stop mocking me every time it occurred to me that i wanted to go for a bike ride but, "ah, balls! that flat tire hasn't fixed itself!"
i can truly empathize with my nephew pax the next time i watch him attempt to build a tower of blocks.i shouldve flown him down for peer support one of the dozen times i tried to put this damn tire on. he and i would sit down with our noble causes: building a marble run block tower and fitting a fucking tire back on a goddamn wheel, respectively. we'd have tremendous confidence and be feeling good about our current attempt because "this time will be different," we'd tell each other. then his wooden tunnel block would fall out of place and my inner tube would pop out from its fitting in the rim. we'd both grumble and look at each other with near exasperation but THIS time will be different. he'd be just about done and giving the marble a test run while i'd have one last inch of tire to pop into place. then... his marble would fall off and my tire would pop off for the 42nd time. wooden blocks and bike pieces would meet against the opposite wall while we scream our respective curses and storm out of the room.
well, i can hear the faint sound of a marble running it's full course...
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