Big Wheels

When I have an idea that makes sense in my head, you can guarantee I’m going to follow through with it. Some ideas take longer than others, but eventually I try to make it happen. Sometimes the ideas don’t quite turn out the way I plan them too, but no hurt in trying, right? I remember one such idea a long time ago.

In Arimo, two of the main roads merge into the highway that leads out to the high school. The people of the town call it the Y. From my house all the way around the Y is about two miles. There were a few ladies in the town when I was younger that would walk around the Y for exercise, my mom being one of them on occasion. One day I was with a few kids in the town, my memory escapes me as to who exactly was a part of this adventure, but there were about 4 or 5 of us. I remember we all had big wheels.

Big wheels are the tricycle looking things with of course a large wheel in the front made out of hard plastic. On sidewalk they would drive along quite smoothly, but if you were to try and drive on lose gravel or even the road it became a difficult ordeal. I’m not a hundred percent sure on the exact people who were involved in this and maybe someone can pipe in and help fill in the details, but I believe Quinn, Lisa, and the brothers Scotty and Stevie. I could be wrong. Anyways, I remember coming up with this fabulous idea to take a trip around the Y on these big wheels. It was a long journey, we were way too young to embark on it, but we found ourselves determined to make it.

So there we were pedaling our little hearts out in our little gang of big wheelers. We made it to Bonnie and Modell’s house and then we were stopped. Bonnie came outside and started getting after us for being so far away from home. It was about a mile away from where I lived and almost half way around the Y, but for a kid that was a heck of a lot of pedaling. Our moms were called and all my friends were grounded from me and probably each other. Except for Scotty and Stevie, I don’t think they ever were grounded for anything, they were always around town causing all kinds of mischief or driving their grandpa’s golf cart. Way too young for that as well.

This story reminds me of the quote The Journey on my facebook page. I won’t quote the whole thing on here but I’ll give you a piece of it. Just because we think that we have great ideas, doesn’t mean they always turn out the way we think they should. But don’t be afraid to make mistakes, to stumble and fall, because most of the time, the greatest rewards come from doing things that scare us the most. We can always pick ourselves back up from all our failures and eventually, we’ll get it right. With that said, I think one of these days I’m going to finish the Y on the big wheel. So Bonnie if you see me coming, just let me go.