Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 22:17:56 GMT -5
*Rumpke takes a moment to reach to a table that sits to the right of him. On this table is many bottles of "Wild Irish Rose". A cheap yet stout bottle of wine that has been dubbed the drink of the day. He grabs one of these full bottles before pulling it to his body. He sits there, slightly rocking back and forth with a slight smile on his face as he looks out at to the trees that is slightly showing life. These tree's, they are still bare but the buds on many of the limbs (depending on the trees) are already starting to crack open to show that spring might be here upon southern Indiana. Spring, it brings mushrooms, fishing, farming and blacktop.. Each one of these things has Rumpke ecstatic. He's missed each and every one of these character developmental activities.. The Drunken Brawler cracks the op of the bottle before chugging the bottle of Wild Irish Rose.. Once empty, that bottle finds itself on the way into his yard before he grabs another to drink. This goes on for a few bottles as Rumpke does what he can to get enough alcohol in his system to the point where he is feeling normal..*
Blacktop and farming are not only hard work but the atmosphere can beat you down. It'll challenge you're fortitude around ever corner. Never will you ever know what to expect from either of these occupations. Blacktop is a little more predictable than farming but it'll still beat you down just from the heat radiating from the 1000 degree extruder that you've got to work your ass off shoveling mix while standing a couple feet from this machine that does it's best to resemble a living hell. One that'll challenge your fortitude every minute of each day while it's in season. It's an occupation that has to be planned around the rain, even more so than concrete and farming... Concrete don't like heavy drops because you'll have to stick around to watch and fix each and every drop that splatters on your concrete but that type of mix; it takes a longer time to set when it's cool outside. Rain makes the land cools. So yeah, it might be annoying in the sense that you've got to sit there, and fix it while watching the rain come down but you don't have that luxury with blacktop. That is a hot mix that requires heat. It's not a chemical mix that can be slowed down by cooler temperature. The rain will fuck your day up royally if you're laying a mix that requires heat during a cool shower. It won't wait for you to work it. Each rain drop that lands and sizzles on the hot mix is further increasing the hell that you've got to endure. You can't give in even if your tired of shoveling/throwing mix. You've got to have the endurance to keep on going.. There is no stopping when it comes to this.. Wait too long and the hot mix will grow cold. Once that does, there's no changing the form of it.. The only thing you can do to change the outcome if you didn't work fast enough to set the blacktop correctly before it lost it's heat is use machines to break up that mix. Jackhammers, and excavators will have to rip that hardened mix into pieces that can be loaded onto a dump truck only to be hauled off to the dump. One dump truck full of mix is a thousand dollars roughly. If you figured 4000 dollars (That's four tri axle loads of mix, an average here in Daviess, Martin, Greene and Lawrence Counties). So you're royally fucking yourself when you fuck up. Congratulations, making that mistake just cost you 4000 dollars.. You gave all of those materials away for free and now you've got to pay your help double what you anticipated, the fuel cost of your machines.. Yep, they double as well. All because of weather.. It's a tough business.
Then you've got farming. I tend to get into produce and orchards. That's where I've put my money into at least. Rain won't ruin your chances of getting a crop but it could greatly hinder your yield. Let's take a look at the orchard business first shall we? Rain creates fungus (Good for MORELS but that's bad for farming...) Fungus will make the fruit look awful, meaning you've got to cut your price. You've got to sell the deformed fruit for half of the price.
Then there is always the fruit tree's that want to flower early, take the japanesse plums. They like to start flowering early traditionally. In Japan that must be fine but here in Southern Indiana when the last frost date is usually around May the first.. That's not a good tree to have around. Yet when there is a warm year, and they are able to produce. The sales of the purely sweet fruit overcome the traditional European plums that fit this area that I live in (By Far)..There's nothing that I can do about the weather. I'm not god, even though Emerson states that I'm the god and the devil.. I don't control the weather but I do take the gamble. I gamble a lot, sometimes it pays off, other times it doesn't.
Even though people want to think of me as weak for the fact that I rely on medications and booze. A majority of people that step up to me want to try to preach at me for my addictions. Seems to me like they believe they can get under my skin by trying to bring this up to me.. It's as if they expect to derail me on this topic that has came at me ever since I started in wrestling/fighting (depending on where you stand). I almost think that they believe their being original with their comments when in reality their just copycats digging for some kind of foothold that they'll never get..
So let me tell all of you watching this.. The fact that I subject myself to addictions doesn't make me weak. They'd like to tell me that I'm not strong because I rely on these substances but I could quit if I truly wanted to (Fact is, I don't want to). Sounds like an addict doesn't it? HELLO, I am an addict. I've always been one. That's me, that is my reality. I am who I say I am and it doesn't matter how many of you want to challenge that aspect of me. You're setting yourself up for failure..
I don't need alcohol or opium based pills despite the fact that I'm sick in the head. I could convert to Kratom and be just fine. For those of you that don't know what Kratom is. It's a tropical plant (Much like Coffee and even related to Coffee) This plant stimulates the senses much like opium based products and it is illegal in very few states in the U.S. Indiana is one of them states, figures because we have big pharmaceutical companies that don't want it to hurt their bottom line but that doesn't stop me. I've been finding ways to dodge their reach for a lifetime. Yet, as hard as it may be for all of you to fathom.. You know, each of you that want to talk shit about my addictions.. I could even do without that and everything else but the question is; Do I want to? No, I don't, and I won't so save your breath. Don't seek to derail me with your beliefs that I'm weak because I succumb to my addictions. I'm not weak, I can do whatever I want with them but the cold hard fact is that I love to hate these effects that I experience. I'm sure that is the obvious. When all of you talk about Rumpke, that name has always been associated with drugs and that isn't because I want it that way. I'd love to be more notable for other causes but my big thing on this target is that I won't change despite the fact that any of you wan't to put me down because of it. I don't give a shit what any of you have to say about my beliefs, just accept that we were born with different opinions.. Sounds like I'm from the left and that you must accept my opinion or your a hater.. No, the fact doesn't make you a hater, I'm not going to go on the screen at the news and say that people are hating on me. You'll never hear me openly come out and say that I fear society because of who I am. Fact is, society should fear me just as much as they do the men that want to call themselves women so they can enter women's bathrooms. This left and right winged centered country, they should plaster me on every single bulletin board because I'm the true enemy(Right?) I'm the addict that teaches your children (Including your's Emerson.) That it's okay to drink your life away. I'm the man that tells each and every person that hears my message that they don't have to fear persecution for being an Addict. Here I am, slipping through between both the left and right's morals..Some would say that I am a Leftist but I'm not. I go through the cracks..Either way, I'm both of their enemies given what I stand for (Even though I couldn't give a shit, I'd help either side as long as I felt they were right and if I don't feel as if they are speaking for me. I'll decline to stand by them. That doesn't make me a hater.. This doesn't mean that I support children being shot at school but I'm sure some in the world would disagree with me and that's okay.. If any of you are one of them, challenge me next time and we can get into that!) I could get all into abortion, gun violence and other topics but I'll stop it right here and spare all of you the potential political objectives..
This is the moment where I start turning the tides (If I didn't before this..) Emerson, I've not seen you around since you wanted to challenge me. And I'm not talking about the moment our names were aligned in that versus state. I'm talking about the moment where you talked about how all of you here in SFT could never seem to shut me up. You had said that because of my silence. I even think you might of felt a false sense of security with that comment. The timing told me that you assumed you had the lead. Perhaps I couldn't catch up?
Now I'm going to get back to that soon but first I want to show some people what I was telling them about last Titans. I had a couple of people that I was personally trying to coach up. Jamo and Andrew, yes both have just felt my wrath but at the same time. I was doing what I could to help them rise above the challenge that had presented itself in their wake. I kept telling them that just because they were behind; None of that meant anything. They could rise above the attempts to shut them down if they only had heart to push themselves harder than the others that sought to beat them down with a "fury"(If we'd call it that? Seemed feeble to me but regardless..) I thought they were having trouble with recovering and I've spent alot of time perfecting my craft recovering from blows that have been delivered to me. I use to follow those statements that my opponents lead with but I eventually figured out that I didn't have to follow you. I was capable of cutting the leaders off.. I did what I could to help both Jamo and Andrew. Apparently my message resonated. Didn't it? Well, Jamo still lost but he kept his title.. Andrew gained the Intercontinental title. So technically there was no loss there.. Yet, I don't deserve any thanks there. I presented the idea that they could recover from the 2 to 0 odds on the promos and did what I could to help them. Yet, I'm no hero. Those that would think that of me couldn't be further from the truth. I've always been a piece of shit. That's a fact people: I'm arrogant, selfish, will beat women if they step out of line, to cheaply sum this up instead of making a very long list.. I'll do a lot of things that classify me as scum. But that's who I am Emerson. I'm the shit that hangs out waiting for a reason to give someone a bad day.. But anyways, back to another point. I may of been waiting patiently to give you your moment Emerson and when I did just that.. What did I find? I watched you squander that moment being completely happy with what you've done but it wasn't enough despite the fact that I gave you a handicap. There were a couple reasons that you got your handicapt. One was the fact that I was busy.. I knew that I had shit to do. I wanted to go mushroom hunting. I didn't give a shit what you brought to the table because I knew that you couldn't go further than your one minute promo without me. While I honestly don't need to feed off of you Emerson. I'm perfectly capable of planning my own attacks and that feeds into what I said earlier that I know you had progressed since you and I faced the last time but I knew that you weren't ready for me. You try to lead people a little here and there but you can't fully lead. You've got to wait for something to feed you and this past twelve days; You've shown me exactly that. Never once did you show me that you were fully capable of leading someone. The only thing you done mirrored exactly what you told Jamo that he could do initially and that was hope that you had enough to get you over the hump. Never once did you come at me relentlessly and that's why I'm going to use you (A former World Champion) as an example.. I took what you had to throw, deflected it pretty much effortlessly and came at you with 95% of my own shoot. The other 5% was me feeding on your pathetic attempt to nail the target.. That's mainly why you are behind me despite progressing. You've still got to fully break out of your shell Emerson.. That's something you've been trying to do but haven't done yet. Maybe, in time when it presents it's self. We'll once again try this whole Rumpke vs. Emerson thing (or vice versa) and see where both of us stand but for now; I'd recommend that you work harder on becoming a leader.
Jamo, and Andrew; If you're watching right now. This is exactly what I was talking about when I said that both of you could overcome the challenges that both of you were facing: if you A.) had the heart to do so and B.) Came out with something to turn the tides. Record what has happened here and pay attention closely
Now that all of that is over with. I'd like to give Emerson a cheer for doing what he could. The man, tried to lead me and did what he knew. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough thus far. Yet he still has until deadline to do something more. He still has the opportunity to rise above the new found odds that has been set tonight (if not the other night..) I know I seem harsh when I talk to Emerson but that's who I am. I'm a mean son of a gun that's always ready to go off.. Yet, despite that, I will say that Emerson has some sort of respect from me because of his heart to keep going. This man has been here more consistently than I have. There's no doubt about it in my mind. He's been keeping on with a good fight and that single fact alone brings my applause his way. Yet, don't make the mistake that I'm blindly kissing your ass because once the bell rings. I'm going to show you that I do indeed have the edge here in this fight and that experience of mine in this type of arena will undoubtedly push me to another victory here in SFT. If any of you doubt me, then join a betting ring so I can cause you to lose some of your money just like I've done to many others.
*Suddenly, Rumpke's phone begins ringing. He sets the bottle in his lap before quickly grabbing and answering the phone.*
Rumpke: Hello? What are you doing Tabitha?
*A moment of pause is observed before Rumpke briefly smiles and says.*
Rumpke: Sure, I'd be happy to watch my nieces while you take care of that.. See you soon..
*Rumpke hangs the phone up*
It seems as if it is that moment where I must leave all of you. I hope all of you have a great evening.
*The scene suddenly cuts to a commercial that advertises Rumpke's own Kentucky Cornshine.*
