I've Gotta Cut Loose! A 100% True Story:

[PHO2GR4]

Lehi: Gateway to American Fork!

I visited the town of Lehi today, and it was a very interesting place. It sort of reminded me of an 80's movie...I forget the name right now.

Anyhow, the town was so quaint that I actually daydreamed about packing up and moving there! That is, until I heard about the city ordinance forbidding dancing of any kind. And you know me...always feeling a little, oh, what's the word...footloose.

No dancing! That sort of riled me up. I just HAD to dance! But where could I indulge this illegal urge? I decided to break into a local grain mill:

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It was a dark, cool, empty warehouse where I was able to cut loose...Footloose!...and kick off my Sunday shoes. I danced so hard it was almost like a gymnastics routine...swinging from conveniently-placed bars and such. I cranked up my VX's stereo and danced until I was dripping with sweat!

I'd thought I was alone in this abandoned mill, but I was being watched by a girl who turned out to be the local preacher's daughter. (You wouldn't know it from her rebellious attitude! Talk about repressed sexuality...) I drove her to the local high school parking lot (with that grain mill in the background):

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But her redneck boyfriend got angry when he caught her flirting with me. He challenged me to a dangerous game of "Chicken" out in a nearby field...him in a bulldozer, me in my trusty Vehicross. It was a life-or-death situation! I couldn't back out with the preacher's daughter watching me! But that damn bulldozer was so BIG! When I tried to bail out of my VX a split-second before the explosive collision, my shoelace got snagged on my gas pedal! I was doomed! Thankfully, the redneck boyfriend chickened out, swerved off the road and crashed that bulldozer over a ravine. Someone took this shot right before be rolled down the incline:

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He wasn't injured, but now his girlfriend was REALLY hot for me. This enraged him even more, and he actually smacked her in the face, under the bleachers at this rodeo arena:

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This was getting out of hand. Some of us cool kids were hanging out at the local drive-in, listening to our car stereos just a BIT too loudly, and some squaresville adults told us to turn it down! So we drove to the Lehi Recreation Center, which as you can see is the coolest place in town, Daddy-O:

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What a day! It was all too much drama for me, so I took my dogs and had coffee at this cool coffee house:

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Everything turned out okay in the end. I somehow convinced the town council that dancing didn't always lead to sex, unless you wanted it to...so they overturned that pesky "no dancing" ordinance. We held the prom at some other grain mill across the county line, I think. I was drunk, so I don't remember. I DO remember teaching Sean Penn's chunky brother how to dance, out on some football field. That was weird. The preacher's daughter is now my girlfriend, and the preacher ended up being an alien visitor to this third rock from the sun. His wife ended up adopting Edward Scissorhands. It's all true; look it up.

And by the way, "Footloose" WAS filmed in Lehi, Utah. Well, parts of the movie, anyway...

Nobody was arrested during the creation of this post:

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[PHO2GR4]

BTW, in response to a couple of questions:

1) Even though the title of the thread says "100% true", you have to understand that, well, okay, none of it was true. Except for the stop at the coffee shop. That really happened.

2) And yes, the friendly forest ranger really did just want to talk about photography. I don't know why I always get nervous when a police car pulls up near me.

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[biju]

Entertaining!~~~~

See you soon, man.

-bij

[Techy-D]

BTW, in response to a couple of questions:

1) Even though the title of the thread says "100% true", you have to understand that, well, okay, none of it was true. Except for the stop at the coffee shop. That really happened.

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Ha, you beat me to it.
I was going to ask where the decimal point went in that "100%".

Fun story, Great Pictures,... In a strange way, I kinda feel like I'm going on vacation! Wow, I kinda like this, I might have to try it for real some day! :p

[PHO2GR4]

The thing is, when I was younger, I LOVED the movie "Footloose", and even enjoyed some of the music.

But then I saw it again as an adult, and realized how dreadfully awful it was.

Oh well, times change...people change..........hairstyles change......

(Bonus points for the first person to name THAT movie quote.)

[WyrreJ]

Interest rates fluctuate.

[PHO2GR4]

You got it! I would have just said the name of the movie myself, but it was top secret...

[kpaske]

Wow, if all the time and creativity you put into that post is any indication of how exciting the town of Lehi, UT truly is, I'll be sure that I never, ever go anywhere near that place!

Too funny!!! ;Db;