There are days that I just can't get over how fortunate Diane and I are to be surrounded by such incredible people. People who at a moments notice would drop everything to lend a hand when you are in need. People who will listen to you complain even when they have their own troubles in life to deal with. People who would give you the shirt off of their backs or the very bikes they ride from under their ass! They say what you put out in to the world comes back. For the longest time, we had wondered if this was true and if it was, we were patiently waiting for this to happen. Over the last few years it has happened with gestures as small as stopping by out of the blue with my favorite desert to gestures as grand as friends giving me their motorcycles to ride when my bike was down! Some of you may know that my trailer was stolen a few months back now and it really sucks. I was telling a friend this story when he told me that our mutual friend, Brother Mario, yes, Dirty Sanchez, that Mario had just had his trailer stolen from the one and only Shed in Milwaukee! I couldn't help but think to myself, why do such bad things happen to such good people? Well Mario was here this past week for a short trip to AZ before he has to head back to Amsterdam and it was incredible to get to hang out with both him and his lovely wife Pat. We all went out and had drinks and an unbelievable meal with another set of friends. We laughed until we damn near cried. Once again, as we sat there, I could not help but to think how blessed we are.
A few days later, we are on the phone and he tells me "you'll never fucking believe this, but guess what?" What? He gets a call from a mutual friend, the one and only Kevin "Teach" Baas. Teach had received an email from out of the blue telling him that if he did not remove his trailer from where it was parked, that the guy would have no choice but to have it towed. Teach said, "I don't have a trailer in Wisconsin"! Can you describe the trailer or send me a pic so I know what you are talking about he asked the guy. Sure enough, the guy emails him pics and it is Brother Mario's trailer, dumped on some back country road in Wisconsin. Now why would someone go through the trouble to steal a trailer and then just leave it somewhere? Because the trailer had this massive BAAS METALCRAFT STICKER on it and no matter how hard they tried, they could not get it off! Painting over it would not have worked and with all the stickers it was too recognizable so they just dumped it. That very sticker had Teach's website on it. So the moral of the story is, BAAS METALCRAFT stickers are good luck! So I was speaking with Teach about this the very next day and we were laughing. He told me that I was having trouble with my knuck because it didn't have a sticker on it! I told him that I was out of Baas stickers and not only that, but I was having a hell of a time trying to find the "CHANGE YOUR LUCK, RIDE A KNUCK" stickers. He said he would look to see if he had one and if he did, he would send me one when he got a chance. Today, Diane says, "are you waiting on a package from Teach?" It took me a second and then it dawned on me.... why yes, yes I am.... I was so excited! I tore in to that package like a kid at Christmas and boy oh boy was I surprised! Not only did he hook me up with new Baas stickers but.......... oh hell, I'll show ya!
Now if only this package had gotten here two days ago, maybe I would not have to pull the motor out of my 65 year old Knucklehead..... damn U.S. Postal service!!!! So not only did he send me the "Change your luck" sticker but also a Knuckleheads Forever Sticker, an old school, Evel style HD sticker, a few Baas MC stickers but he also included a Knuck Motor Patch! Something so silly as this envelope filled with a few trinkets if you will brought me so much joy and once again hammered home to me just how lucky I have it! No matter how shitty things get, no matter how broke we are at times, we will always be wealthy because we have people like the ones that I mentioned in this post in our lives! So look around you, take an inventory of your life and see what you are surrounded with. If you are surrounded by those who just take and take and take and never give from the heart, no matter what the gesture, it may be time to reevaluate, take stock and clean house! I do believe in karma, I do believe that what you put out comes back ten fold and I do believe in always doing the right thing at any cost! So cherish the ones you love, give till it hurts and always trust your gut, it's usually right!
In the next week, I'll be leaving for the one and only Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and while there, I'll be blessed with getting to spend time with people that I love from all around the world and that is the biggest part of my compensation for working the event! So if you are heading to Sturgis, make sure you come up and see me at the World Famous Broken Spoke Saloon and make my day!
Until we see each other on the road again,
Keep the wind in your face,
Tits in your back
and The Man off your ASS!
Your friend,
Jack Shit
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