Seidel MaxSupport Tan Roughout
Right before I got these boots I started work on building a room in an unfinished barn garage for me to live in and got in a motorcycle wreck— the wreck wasn’t my fault and I still haven’t figured out if that makes it better or worse. So, my arm got broke, my bike got totalled, and work got a lot harder. I had a little issue with my boots that the nice folks at Nick’s took care of so I could still do the contest. And when I talked to them on the phone in the parking lot of the doctors office when I went to get my cast I managed to avoid telling them, dramatically, that this boots deal was the only thing I still had going for me right then. And time passed, my arm started to heal, I bought a new motorcycle with my insurance cash the day I got my cast off, I got my brother to help me build my room, it got cold and snowy and now less cold and muddy, and I wore these boots near every day in that time. I would work for the better part of the day, take my dog on a walk through the woods, and come back to my makeshift gym in the cold part of the garage and try my best to do what I could to keep my bad arm from shriveling. I could go on, but now I got a place to live that I built myself, it’s getting warm enough to ride again, and I’m feeling strong again—and these boots carried me through all of it.
Written on April 6, 2023
2022-2023 Work Thunderdome, April submission