This was my friend Johnny. Always called me cap'n kirka since we were little kids. Some friendships never end they just get put on pause. Johnny was the kinda guy that would bust your balls one second and the next drop everything on a job to run outside and help an elderly woman cross the street.
One year he "borrowed a traffic light"'and rigged it up (with a hand controller) on a pole on rt 9 in front of his house. The next day was a big police escorted charity cancer ride for kids (thousands of bikes) and in variably some yuppie in a car would cut into the ride cause their time was more important than raising money for kids with cancer.
Johnny would flip the rigged stop light from green to yellow to red (all in about half a millisecond) just to FUCK with the cars hahaha
One year for Halloween Johnny made a huge paper-mache dick (costume) balls and all from head to knees (painted very life like) we fuckin died laughing need less to say we busted his balls (literally) hahaha
Another year tripping bad Johnny became convinced his friend Marky (while in markys room upstairs) was a really a vampire and was gonna kill him.
The more marky tries to shut him up (so Johnny don't wake up his parents) the more terrified Johnny gets and he's screaming hysterically "Don't Kill Me" hahahahaha what a trip.
One winter night Johnny rolled his bike into the house to work on it put and his birds outside. Got really fucked up and passed out while it was running. They found him the next morning.
Our buddy jack grabbed Johnnys bike spent the night getting it running right cause...
I put a run together in his honor it was last minute it was during Laconia and still
look at the big turn out (just his friends from just our town) everyone loved Johnny.
This Tee shirt I save and every year I wear it at Laconia Rendezvous and any big cancer run cause Johnny's not gone he's right there with me and he always will be. I absolutely guarantee you one day we're all gonna be smoking a big fat dooba and be riding together.
Don't be sad cause hey thats life..
No one gets out alive so enjoy the ride and live life to it's fullest...
And no one's ever really gone if they're loved and remembered