A Monster Good Time
by on January 19th, 2010
filed under Undecided
Sometimes you get the opportunity to do something you never dreamed you’d actually want to do.
Last Saturday night I took Monkey Boy to Monster Jam at Angel Stadium. What’s Monster Jam, you ask?
That’s okay, I asked the same thing the night before paying $12 to park my car, scurrying past drunken tailgaters, hiking up 4 stories of ramps and peering down on an crudely elaborate dirt track.
Monster Jam is a monster truck race and freestyle event. You might have heard of Grave Digger, heck even I’d heard of that monster truck driven by Chad Tingler.
I wasn’t sure what to expect, but as I looked around at the sea of monster truck fans I realized this sport attracts a lot of families, from grandparent to toddlers. Monkey Boy was so excited he kept saying, “I’m so turned on right now!” I swear I have no idea where he heard that, but I was grateful for the ear splitting blast of the mufflerless nitro engines that drowned him out. After a brief talk about how he’d used the wrong word to express himself without having to explain why it was wrong, we settled down to enjoy the show.
I have no idea how they scored it, but Blue Thunder won the race and Grave Digger won the Freestyle (which apparently involves lots of crushing cars, flying off dirt ramps, doing donuts and generally putting your life at risk.)
One truck flipped twice, Madusa (not a misspell- she’s mad & wears old red, white & blue) flashed her distended red white & blue bikini top 3 times, 3 trucks popped a tire including Grave Digger during his winning freestyle run and Monkey Boy begged for $10 pizza 3 times, $5 cotton candy twice and $7 ice cream once.
In the end he got a $20 Grave Digger t-shirt (What can I say? He wore me down.). And we both left the stadium wishing we could be driving home in a monster truck.
