Drive Like You Stole It

If you have ever played X Box or driving games, you probably agree that these are fun for a while.

Muscle cars, lightning reflexes, and the added benefit of relieving tension. Nothing like totaling a Ferrari to make your day complete.

You drive by smashing cars off the road, raging around your opponent, crashing with maximum amount of damage, and you even gets points for taking down other cars.

Enough about my carpooling, I'm talking Burnout Revenge Takedown.

Nothing compares to the sheer excitement of seeing parts ready to fall off your car, the hood crumpled as you total your opponent. The doors smash off or hang off their hinges. It really is a tension reliever.

The Game Cubist is 8 and we've plowed our way through so many levels. The boy is driving, smashing, raging, racing around in a Fire Engine. He asked me today if it would be cool to have a Smart Car to race with. That's about as funny as a moped on the Autobahn.

So, we raced our way to high score. Call that 30+ hours of wasted time, never to be retrieved again. But hey, it's top score, so that has to count for something, right?

Fast forward to his future in BUDS/CRT Navy military training:

"FNG!!!!? Are you the bottom of the barrel?!! THE ONLY EASY DAY WAS YESTERDAY, BOY! SECOND PLACE IS FIRST LOSER!!! MY GRANNY COULD HAVE RUN LAPS AROUND YOUR LAME ASS EXCUSE FOR A RUN....ARE YOU GOING TO RING OUT?! YOU WANNA RING OUT?! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF?!"

[insert the Master Chief's into yours]

"I CAN DO IT, MASTER CHIEF. SIR! When I was eight, my mom and I got top score IN A FIRE TRUCK ON BURNOUT REVENGE TAKEDOWN, SIR!"

"WELL THAT'S THE KIND OF PROGRESS I'M LOOKING FOR, FNG! AS YOU WERE!"

So maybe racing won't get him far in life, but I don't think he'll forget that he and his mom got down and dirty racing in his firetruck as we laughed and sped our crumpled fenders to the finish line.

~Bee will not tell you what FNG stands for. ~ehmmm~