Something is Always In The Way of A Man's Job

Great blog post for you all. Especially if you like stories that are based on a true story. Some detail may have been changed.

So it was one fine warm middle-of-the-summer day, when all of a sudden the trees started to loose their leaves, just like they would do in fall. This wasn't the start of the freakyness, mind you. So, being the good young men that my brothers and me are, we go and clean the yard up.

So we're raking it all up outside at this point, and I was even using the mower, when we discovered insane amounts of dog poop. Now don't get disgusted by me making mention of that, our dog just has a high metabolism. It's going along fine too, when I decided stop for a small break and lean on the mower for a minute or two. I gazed out to the west at the Oquirr Mountains, but they weren't there. What I saw was a huge freak storm headed our way. Being the brave and slightly stupid, though strapping young men that we were, decided to push on with the job.

Needless to say, this was not the best idea any of us had ever had. We ended up fighting the storm for "yard supremacy", a feat still not attained by any man in the world to date. The battle continued. We had to fight the storm or else we wouldn't ever be able to get the leaves up. But as we persevered, we completed the task in the nick of time. Some of us had what we had dubbed, "Everest Finger Condition", where your fingers get so numb that you can't feel them. It can even get to the point where they might get frostbite. But that didn't happen. Mother Nature was no match for us. In the fashion of a braindead teanager who insults everybody, we too insulted that storm.

We don't know now, looking back on it, whether that storm is holding a grudge against us. It might just be. Mother Nature has been known to be vindictive that way. But I tell you now, so that you all can learn a lesson, don't mess with storms. I have nightmares and flashbacks like it were yesterday, even though all this happened today, and it isn't pleasant. So know this you young people, learn my our mistake, and just take it easy when a storm roles through....