Friday, November 9, 2012

The Fiscal Cliff Explained so a cyclist can understand it.

Three people are in a car about to drive off the fiscal cliff. The driver and the co-pilot are sitting in front and the cyclist is sitting in back along for the ride.

Driver: OMG we are about to drive off a fiscal Cliff!!!!!

Co-Pilot: Quick Turn the wheel and get us back on the road!!!!

Driver:  No can do, this road is clearly too dangerous to be driving on.

Cyclist: Why am I in a car,  I hate cars.

Co-Pilot:  Just follow this road a little further, I'm sure we can find another way down.

Cyclist:  But the signs the whole way up have said "Warning: Dead end and Fall hazard"

C-pilot:  I don't think they really meant that, they were just trying to scare you, lets go a little higher.

Driver: Besides I am pretty sure that if we floor it, tilt our heads to the left, close one eye and hope really hard,  a bunch of pink sparkly faeries will catch us and set us back on the ground.

Co-Pilot:  That's Crazy

Driver:  Just because you are a bigot and don't think faeries are as good as the rest of us doesn't mean they aren't real and won't help us.  In fact, the only way my plan can fail is if you don't hope for the faeries hard enough.  So if we total the car and sustain serious bodily harm after I drive this car off the cliff, it will actually be your fault because you are a racist.

Co-Pilot: I'm not racist, in fact my daughter has a binder with faeries all over it, and I help her with the math homework that she keeps in it.  Why just the other day I was having lunch with my friend Larry,  and I brought up the topic of her binder full of faeries and was saying how great it was that she would share it with me and if she lets me I am going to bring it with me to work next week.  So don't tell me I don't like Faeries because....

Cyclist:  Um.. guys we are still driving towards a cliff.  Couldn't we just turn around?

Co-Pilot:  Not anymore,  I just paid a friend of mine at the DOT 5 million dollars to move the bottom half mile of the road to the top of the mountain to buy us some  more time,  but bozo here is intent on driving off this cliff here instead of the one we just put in on the top. 

Cyclist:  I think I just saw some sweet singletrack, let me grab my bike off the top of the car. 

Driver:  Not just now I need to get up some speed if we are to break through the guardrail

Co-pilot:  Couldn't we just drive the rest of the way up with two wheels over the edge and two on the road.

Driver:  Nope your plan won't work,  it's my way or nothing. 

Co- pilot:  Ok,  but if it doesn't work,  I blame you.

Driver:  I'm Flying!!!!!!

Co-pilot:  No this is free fall,  where are the faeries?

Driver: You are not hoping hard enough!  we are going to crash

Diver and Co-pilot together:  This is your fault!!!!

Co-pilot:  Hey where did spandex boy go?

 (2  miles away heading for some sweet singletrack)
Cyclist:  mmm Singletrack......