Weekly 98 - Book of excuses

The book of excuses, what an idea. It struck me that some riders amongst us always have some excuse for their lowsy performance on track. For some reason they are embarassed by it... I don't really understand why, why make up an excuse? Is it your ego that crashed in the process? Or is it that you're full of crap anyway?

Well I dunno, the only thing I know is that I'm always quite mad at myself for stacking up! Yes, I know it is only a game, but still the bets are high! It's all or nothing for me realy. In dutch we'd like to call that "Death or flowers" bit freely translated... So why do we grown men put so much effort in this game. For that we've got to go back to our childhood!

Birth is a little bit too far back in life, I'd say we start around puberty, 12 years of age. You start to get interest in girls, cars and bikes, beer, clothing... It takes half an hour to create your hairdue which will be blown away by the wind on you way to school anyway... But that doesn't matter! You have proven to yourself you're a lean mean whatever machine! During the week you're all busy with trying to be the man at school, but once every fourthnight it's your weekend! MotoGP is on tele!

Well this is where the problem starts, your life has already gone wrong, you're going to school every day of the week. In reality something in your head tells you: "I shud be on a bike at some exotic track every day of the week". Well That's why you watch the real men on track 2000miles away on your couch with potatoe chips in ur lap and a cold Coca Cola (yes, Cola, remember you are only 12) in your hand. You get excited about 20 men racing on the most expensive and technologically advanced bikes in the world and the only thing you can do is watch them having fun.  And you're not getting a single piece of it.

We've tackled most of the problem now! The next thing is how to asnwer your urges of being as close to this world of fancy bikes and women. Well this can't be too hard for any clear thinking mind. You study hard at school and become an engineer in one of the teams! It's as simple as that, or isn't it? The answer is NO! There is another way... but this isn't the best way for your further life. I'll explain it. The next best thing is to buy a game for instance GP500, and play this every day, day in day out, the time you spend on this game has to come from some place one way or another. So the best solution is to sacrifice the time you'd normally spend on your homework.

Anyway I am gonna have to wrap it up! The time you shud have spend on you homework is wasted, you got low grades in school, and now you're working as a cleaner at McDonalds... And all because you want to be a Grand Prix Racer!