00:00What if you bring a Dodge Demon to a 1950s drag race?
00:03Hour 1, you arrive at sun-baked 1950s drag strip.
00:07Air smells like ego and burnt rubber.
00:09Everyone is polishing chrome and talking smack over cigarettes.
00:13Then you pull up in your Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170.
00:17Mechanics swarm your car like they just saw Hitler in bikini.
00:21Another stares at the hood scoop and asks,
00:22Where's the carburetor, son?
00:24You say, I buried it in 1955 where it belongs.
00:28He didn't like it.
00:29Hour 2, you turn on your demon.
00:31It roars like Batman just cleared his throat after a long nap.
00:35One driver closes his toolbox and walks away to become a farmer.
00:38Another just pushes his Ford home in embarrassment.
00:41Hour 3, they line you up against a local legend in his chopped 55 Chevy.
00:46He gives you death stare like he's main character.
00:48Flag drops.
00:49Your car hits 60 miles per hour in 1.6 seconds.
00:53You're already at the finish line while he's still on his second gear.
00:56Crowd can't believe what they have just witnessed.
00:59You destroy the record so hard the timers throw their stopwatches in the trash.
01:04Hour 4, officials hands you every trophy they have.
01:07While Chevy driver is still crying next to his engine block.
01:10An old man taps you on your shoulder.
01:12You look behind.
01:13It's fucking Socrates.
01:15Wrong time.
01:16Wrong century.
01:16He looks directly into your eyes and asks,
01:19If speed has no limit, then what are you chasing?
01:22You say,
01:22The guy in second who is still crying on his Chevy.
01:25The whole strip explodes laughing.
01:27You didn't only humiliate the Chevy guy.
01:29Socrates got cooked as well.
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