Wednesday, September 03, 2008

R.I.P Snowman

I'll miss him.

I will never forget one time, many years ago when I was driving a pickup truck loaded with one of my siblings personal belongings across New Mexico and Texas. Because of the load I couldn't do an overnight stay along the way. I was about three hours away from my destination of Austin and was suffering from fatigue and (probably) low blood sugar.

My remedy? Pop in my "Smokey and the Bandit" soundtrack cassette. In just a couple of minutes I was humming along with a very improved mood the words to "East Bound and Down." It was like mental adrenaline. After a few more minutes I was styling myself as a Walter Mitty-esque long-haul trucker. Much like Cledus "Snowman" Snow in the movie.

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