My friend Bryan is a Yankee...bless his heart. I've known him for years and give him hell like only a good friend can. He is going out of town this weekend for a wedding and asked me to run his truck in the pre-season mud bog. Just a local thing, not a big deal. He's making some changes to the gear ratio, adding a programmer and swapping out tires. His truck "Yank This" has never placed top ten. Something else I give him hell for. How you can have a perfectly good truck 2500 diesel and not place, must be the driver and not the truck kinda hell. Yeah, the shit talk is real! He said if I run her, he will pay the entry fee and we will split the purse if I win. Sounds good, sign me up.
He just called and said there have been some "changes". Changes? What changes? Since this is pre-season opener, they are changing things up a bit. They will be only two classes- guys and girls and which did I want to run in? OK, wait a minute. So there are no classes? WTH? They are running street class against super modified? Yep. That's severely messed up.
I ask him how I have a choice? I mean, last time I checked, yep-still all girl. He said that was another change. Since I have placed in my division, I can "step up" to the guys division if I want to. They are going by driver, not truck. (Who the hell had this idea?) Now, word has gotten out that I am driving Yank This and my friends are having a field day. Is the girl gonna get Yank This her first place? And better yet, is she gonna suck it up and run with the boys? Damn It. I would not worry about running with the guys if there were classes! But with a street legal truck that has never placed up against who knows what??? I'm screwed! I can run her in the ladies division and probably place (less competition) and catch hell if I do place for not running against the guys....or run with the guys in a truck I have never driven, that has never placed against who knows what? These boys will bring anything that runs and put it in the mud!
Byran is screwed regardless...which I am having fun pointing out. If I place with the ladies, it's still a win for Yank This...but if I place with the guys...lifetime bragging rights are mine.
No backing out now...just a question of which division.