driving to my parents' house, i pass by three fire trucks and an ambulance at the local library, helping some guy on the bus stop. i was stopped at a red light right next to the scene and i couldn't help but tear my eyes away from the poor old man and instead look over to the people who were watching the whole thing go down. what were they looking at? what were they looking FOR?? this scene of heroic firemen coming together to help this old man who needed saving. something out of the ordinary!!
you go to work, you go to school, you eat a little, you sleep a little, you watch some intense movies that allow you to pretend for an hour and a half that you are someone else doing something else. you have to watch other people doing things that you'd probably never dare do in reality. so you put a down payment on a 42" flat panel display with full HD and hope, HOPE, that you can be transcended into this fake world and become a ninja, a beauty queen, a riches to rags story, ANYTHING other than how your life is turning out now...
other than movies, i guess in the sack is another place you can really become a part of your fantasy... so i guess, you make love a little too so you can get out of the gross funk that is your life
so those firemen... saving, heroic!! in actuality, 3 firetrucks were probably NOT needed, but it's lakewood... what else do they have to do at 2 in the afternoon on a thursday? but they were there, and i watched so many people drive by and rubber neck it for a quick glance at something out of the ordinary.. out of their reality of a pathetic, 9-5, family-bound life...
thank you firemen: you saved a life and entertained a crowd.
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