Chiming back in…
I got a lot of trophies from BITD and well…this first year and 1/2 back I took them at the races cause I wanted to get that old time feel again…After turning X it sorta faded but anyway the point…
On my computer desk resides 2 trophies.
The first is the first one I ever earned a second at the Millville goat path track and strangely enough the other is another one I got the same day.
My mom and pop were feeling a little bummed that I had been racing for like almost a year and still never got “in the money”, 1-3rd, while my buds were busting out left and right, lol….so they had bought a trophy for me and were going to give it to me that day to try and lift the spirits up.
On the trip home while I was all 13 and wide eyed looking at the little piece of 2nd place plastic I had in my hand, mom turns around and gives me that trophy with my name on it, and says “We were gonna give this to ya because we know how much this stuff all means to you, we’re real proud that you earned that second today”.
At 13 you feel good that the parental units saw that you were trying hard to do something, at 40 you realize the incredible love that they have for ya and how it is important to uphold the ideals they saw in you at that young age.
So the next time you ask why “Brittles” is so hot or fired up about something, you’ll know why. I understand completely and totally the meaning of “it comes from the heart”.
I am now fully prepared for my verbal reaming by my peers, lol!