Escapades of a Soda Bottle

I'm gonna go ahead and tell you about the most embarrassing experience a guy can have.

You just finished up your soda, and you're walking down the sidewalk. Up ahead of you, you see a trashcan fast approaching. As you pass by it, you nonchalantly give the required 1.5 foot toss of your trash into the receptacle. Seems simple, no?

Your projectile, inspired to some mischief, hits the rim of the trashcan and bounces back out. And it always lands five feet from you in the middle of a crowded sidewalk.

It's one thing if this was a Styrofoam cup, or even a crunched up aluminum can. No, this is full-on soda bottle, so it starts bouncing down the sidewalk, making the doink doink noises so everybody knows what just happened. Not only that, but those bottles don't have a uniform shape, making it bounce rogue all over the place. So you're jumping around the sidewalk trying to grab this demon-bottle, cause you don't want people to think, 'Oh, not only is he a bad shot, he's a litter bug, too.'

Well finally you catch the damn thing. You're not near the can anymore. People are giving you side-long glances. Your reputation on this turf has been severely shattered. You know there's only one shot at redemption. You have to turn the most embarrassing experience a guy can have into the most spectacular experience a guy can have.

You line up your shot. Twenty feet to the can. You have to take the wind into account because PET is a very light plastic. You set your feet, cock back...and let it fly. People pause. A single breath stretches for a lifetime. Little drops of soda start scattering from the spinning bottle, but the spectators don't care because they're part of history now.

Could it be.....?

Yes, nailed it!!!

Your work is done. Time to move on.

BYAH!

Rob