Posted by Mark - IN. on June 21, 2010 at 19:42:26 from (24.15.151.166):
Vern from Michigan posted about the summer solstice and sure bummed me out.
It has always been my plan that just once, just once before I die all I want to do was sit back on the longest day of the year and watch the sun go down. Just once. I'm 50 years old, and just once...watch the sun go down on the longest day of the year, and I missed it again today, tonight. Dog gone it all to heck. I missed it again. Son of a.......gun.
The closest I came was about three years ago when I remembered and planned it the whole week. It was Friday, I was working in Illinois and knew what time I had to be on the road to get home to Indiana to watch the sun go down, just me and my labradore, Lou. All was going good, got an early start on the toll road, and then it happened. Someone crashed into someone or something miles ahead and we came to a stand still and time was flashing before my eyes. I was bouncing around in the cab of my truck and yelling out my windows, "What's wrong with you people? Don't you know I have to get home to watch the sun go down? Why are you doing this to me?". I was going nuts, absolutely nuts, but finally traffic moved and I was like Mario Andretti passing and weaving through people all the way home to the middle of Indiana on the Michigan border. I raced into the house, was handed one Sam Adams, one Killians, and one Leinenkugels, all ice cold, grabbed Lou and loaded him into a trailer hooked to the back of my 4520 Deere, and took off into the middle of the bean field. I unloaded Lou, and he sat at my feet, and I stood there and opened and drank all three of those beers one by one as I watched the sun go down over the trees, disappearing into the Michigan horizon on the longest day of the year. Finally!!! It was maybe the happiest day of my life, until the following Monday.
I went to work on Monday and told this lady that I knew all about it. I was smiling from ear to ear, because I finally got to just do nothing on the longest day of the year but watch the sun go down. Woo Hoo!!! And then it happened. She pointed to the calendar at her desk and showed me that I missed it again because Friday wasn't the longest day of the year at all. The day before, Thursday was. She burst my bubble and totally deflated me. I don't know why she did that. If she didn't tell me that, I never would've known and died in peace one day. I sure wish that she hadn't...because I missed it again, and again, and again, and tonight too.
Gosh darn it to heck. Son of a gun. I am never going to get to see the sun go down on the longest day of the year. I may live to be 100, and I'm going to die without ever seeing the sun go down. Gosh darn it. 50 strikes against me.
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