I gotta tell my story of meeting David and his TMAXXX. Monster Jam world finals was happening in Las Vegas in 2017 and it just happened to fall on my birthday. My dad has a friend with little kids who had purchased VIP front row seat packages. I can’t remember why they couldn’t go but we got 5 vip packages for $1,000 bucks. I think those tickets were like $1200 bucks each.
So we take vacation and go do the whole thing for the whole week. Who is we? My parents myself my little sister and my BIL. One of the days they park like 100 monster trucks all over the stadium and let people walk around, look at them, meet drivers. My dad and I are the only ones interested in doing that part, just walking around and checking stuff out for 1/2 a day. As we’re walking around I see a giant a-arm with two shocks sticking through it and knew exactly what it was because my brothers had traxxas Tmaxx’s when we were kids. I dragged dad over to it and I’m walking circles around it pointing stuff out to dad and talking about all the one off parts. David is there so he comes over to talk to us. I introduced myself and my dad to him. I think I asked questions for about an hour. Dad didn’t get to say probably 3 words the whole time and I just yacked away like a 12 year old.
We finally walked away to let other people have a turn and later that that night it hit me. Told everyone “I bet that guy thinks I’m retarded”. It was my 37th birthday and my 57 year old dad was walking me around a monster truck show like a little kid. I fanned out so hard on it being a giant RC truck from my childhood. There’s no way I didn’t walk away without leaving D-T with the impression that I was at least autistic and my dad still having to care for me
I don’t think I’m mentally challenged but I love monster trucks an awful lot for someone my age.
