A “deep” thought from Lost in Rooville… Let me set it up first, though. Ransom, a surfer dude, is talking to Jay, a former stock broker who until recently did mission work with orphans in the jungles of Ecuador. Jay has been summoned to a lawyer’s office and fears that he is getting sued because he can’t pay a debt he incurred when he blew up a burnt orange Jeep while stuck in the middle of the Outback. He’s recently engaged and doesn’t have much income since he’s in missions, so he’s worried about what’s going to happen. Ransom tries to calm Jay’s fears with these “profound” words of wisdom.

“Dude, picture yourself on a skateboard, on top of a steep, paved hill in a busy city, like San Francisco. And you’re flying down the hill and you’re in your tuck and the wheels are clattering on the pavement, when eighty feet below, a dumpster truck comes rolling across the street. Can you picture it?”

“I picture it.”

“Now, what do you do?”

“Skin my knee really bad?”

“No, you stay in your tuck and go straight for the rolling dumpster.”

“Down the Frisco hill and toward the dumpster…”

“Exactly. And do you know why?”

“Tell me. My knees already hurt.”

“Because by the time you get there the obstacle will have moved. Only if you try to outmaneuver the obstacle will you go splat.”