Weight loss motivators- Boy do I have a good one!
There are many tricks and mental shenanigans one might think of in order to give themselves strength in overcoming adversity. Sports psychologists are probably experts at this, and I often look to coaches for advice on how to rid my body of all this human fat. Evidence A: I subjected myself to a year long documentary about myself and all my ills.
Many women tend to use a particular article of clothing as a talisman in their weight loss quest- something they can reward themselves with once their target weight loss is complete. I have taken a hybrid approach to this sports/clothing methodology. I have found that mighty talisman which I think will enable me to achieve my weight loss dreams: The little black dress hanging on the wall of my closet is actually the ball-turret gun on a B-17 bomber- something which I am positive I couldn't currently fit into, but am using the dream of squeezing into one as inspiration.
My little black dress
There are many things about the ball-turret gun position that are just plain cool. You've got the two 50 caliber machine guns at your disposal. I'm not sure if you've ever heard a .50 caliber machine gun fired, but I can tell you- it's loud as crap (I recorded a whole bunch of machine gun fire for the awful movie "Jackal"). You've got pedal-powered rotation, and by pedal-powered I mean, you press a pedal and it spins. I'm sure you'd know which plane I was in if you were a civilian spotter- I'd be the one spinning around wildly with no enemy aircraft in sight.
There's the Millennium Falcon homage, Luke and Han climb into the top and bottom of the Millennium Falcon in what is totally the coolest part of all Star Wars movies- a ball-turret style laser piece. And there was even an obscure episode of Steven Speilberg's "Amazing Stories" where a ball-turret gunner was stuck in shot-up turret and the landing gear on the plane wasn't working either.
Other than being the guy who drives the back part of one of those long hook and ladder trucks, I can't think of any job that is cooler for guys than the ball-turret position. But, my body type being what it currently is, not only would I not be able to squeeze into the tiny glass dome, I wouldn't be allowed on a flight unless I could prove I would be willing to explode on impact after being dropped through the bomb bay doors.
Now I'm not normally one for over the top political correctness, but if someone in the Senate were to pass a bill mandating larger ball-turrets, I'd probably hear about it. But I don't think that would actually ever happen, so I'm left to joyless trips to the local Air Show where I run my fingers along the turret's glass and think of what life without Sundrop would be like.
Forrest Maready
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Reminds me of one of my favorite (albeit morbid) poems of all time:
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
-- Randall Jarrell
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