Saturday 11 June 2011

From the Desk of the Sell Out Generation...

I started leaking briefly...
It wasn't intentional and, in all honesty, it wasn't surprising really...
Managing an unstructured, unscheduled operation with a fool at the helm, and a whole host of random variables being continually added to the work parameters in an environment that worships structured results over survival is something that shouldn't be undertaken ...
But being myself, that never really occurred, and like the idiots before me, I too believed I could.
It was a slippery gelatin ooze at first. Easi-wipe gunk reminiscent of a cross between Blackberry Jelly from a rabbit shaped jelly mould and that salt and vinegar silicone sealant stuff they use in bathrooms... wiping worked, but there was this nagging feeling of tacky permanence that suggested the ooze was more important than it gave itself credit for...
Like the first tiny discolouration on the suspension fork, that hint that a seal is about to go... you wipe that first glittering sparkly omen away but you know that those seals are either going to come apart under your guidance or seize and kill you at a really inconvenient juncture sometime between now and later... the import of that first trickle is there, but the mark of the organised man is that he sheds the wheels straight away and deals with it...
Unsurprisingly there are millions of us who wipe a couple more times before getting to that stage, cos wiping's easy... and less hassle than dismantling a whole suspension leg.
Then you get the maverick's who just wipe and wipe and wipe, cos wiping each time rather than dealing with the problem starts to feel like maintenance... at least that's what you tell yourself...
Then the fork seizes and you die having completely missed the point...
I'm not sure what the result is of Blackberry, Salt and Vinegar ooze... but I'm still wiping. I haven't got a consequence to use as a benchmark, nor do I have a useful scale by which to judge the shade or texture of the leaking sealant stuff....

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