January 27, 2009
I miss it!!

I'm not going to lie to you... I miss it! I thought that when it was out of my life, I would never think about it again. At the very least, not miss it like I do. This is ridiculous. I miss you like crazy!!

Absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder! After watching The Pursuit of Happyness (The Will Smith movie with his son Jaden), the only good thing to come out of it was the scenes involving a rubik's cube. It seems like a silly thing, but I used to be the master of the cube. Remember back in school where you had specialists in all different categories at school? There was the master skate boarder, the kid that likely had a future in motorcross based on the way they handled their bicycle, not to mention the athlete that was good at everything, the brainiac (definitely not me) etc.

One day, years ago, at Towers department store I saw a Rubiks cube on the shelf for $1.99, and I found my new love. I spent every last second with that multi coloured square... and enjoyed every second of it. Back in my day, there was no internet to go source out the pattern to solve it, so we relied on classroom chatter. All you do is 5 turns to the right, followed by 3 spins up, one left, another right and so on, and so on. Remember how happy people were when they could do one side? High fives filled the hallways of every public school... but not ours. It was the day the school changed forever when I solved all 6 sides. From that day on, I got all the ladies! LOL I brought it to school one day after a long night at home twisting and turning, sweat pouring from my brow as I wanted to impress the two hotties at the time, Tara and Judy.

I had a flashlight under my covers with me, so not to give away what I was doing into the wee hours of the morning. My parents would have killed me!! Then at about 5 that morning, I DID IT!! I solved the whole thing, and couldn't wait to show it off to my classmates. This was unbelievable, and unchartered territory for Fairfield Public School in Burlington. There was no way I could sleep then, so the 4 hours before school started was the longest wait of my life. For once.. I wanted to go to school!

The kids at school didn't believe me. Soooo, I had to do it again. The pressure was on. Could I do it again? God, I hope so. This is my ticket to popularity and... the ladies! Not only did I do it, but I did it in about 20 minutes after school. Sighs everywhere, followed by some loud "Whatever's" from some of the Rat Pack.

A few years later I brought a few cubes to St. Lucia to be used as currency. You could get whatever you want with little gems like these. What did I trade it for? Great big chunks of sugar cane. I was 15 at the time, and looking for a little rush. God was that good! You just sunk your teeth into it a little bit and got the juices. You couldn't eat it, as it had the consistency of cardboard or bamboo.

But now to make a long story even longer... I miss my rubik's cube. I'm not sure I could even find one again, but I will be on the look out.

What do you miss?

Mookie



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