ETERNAL --> EPHEMERAL

Almost the hardest part of this task was finding something that's supposed to last forever... something... permanent. Well, since I'm a smart aleck and have a less-than-the-cost-of-a-sandwich budget, I found this:



It seems someone thinks this marker will be around forever. Lucky for me, I was talking with my friend the hammer and he says he had a few choice words for this person.

A showdown was about to commence



And so the two met, had a nice cup of tea, and were getting along rather nicely until the permanent marker made an insensitive quote that really stirred the hammer's rage. You see, the permanent marker is a big Joss Whedon fan, and he just watched Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and so he had to quote the best line from the movie, which, unfortunately, was "The hammer is my penis."

Well, the following ensued:



Even though I had made the permanent marker only temporary, I felt I had not yet followed the letter of the task, which was "make it go away."

I also felt this act was almost senseless, and so it needed some meaning. A meaning only a pretentious 22-year old could give it.

Thus, you have the following four parts of the once whole marker:

Shell:



Core:



Pieces:



Cap:



And so I decided to send them each off in their own plastic baggie with a message to whomever dared to open the bag.

Text: "This, too shall pass." This permanent marker has been made temporary.

The Shell: The shell must be cracked if what is contained inside is to be made known.

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text: "This, too shall pass." This permanent marker has been made temporary.

The Core: When the shell is broken, the core is exposed. Is it as frightening as we thought? The core will make its mark on you.

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text: "This, too shall pass." This permanent marker has been made temporary.

The pieces: When the shell has been cracked, broken pieces are left over. Do we pick them back up or are they not as necessary as we once deemed?

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text: "This, too shall pass." This permanent marker has been made temporary.

The cap: How easily we limit ourselves, and yet, how easily that limit is removed

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Now, my original plan for sending them off was to sneak them into the back of truck beds that were passing by in each of the four cardinal directions.

However, as with the last praxis of this task, things didn't go according to plan.

I stood for a good while without any trucks stopping to turn right at the intersection I was stationed at. One lady had her windows cracked, though, and that gave me idea, so I went to the nearest parking lot in search of cracked windows and got these three gems... poorly videotaped.





So that left me with one left. I really felt I had copped out and I wanted to redeem myself with this last piece. I was going to go with my original truck-bed idea, and I waited around for a while, but I didn't get enough guts up - especially because there was always someone behind the truck looking straight forward and obviously I was in their line of sight.

So I thought I would just ask people to take it for me. I tried to capture my first attempt at this on video, but my camcorder turns off after a while of being unused, and I forgot to turn it back on. However, I did get my second (and final) attempt:



For the first attempt, imagine the second attempt with a Barbie-looking girl, a small dog, and more confusion.

So I finally went back to my first idea and dropped it in a truck bed. Sadly, I repeated my mistake with the camera, so the most I got of it was trying to capture the item in the truck bed ever-so nonchalantly. Blah.




Supposing this is actual completion of the task, here is your new task.

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BAD PARENTING:

Just like a bad parent whose dreams weren't realized, I will force you to live out my dreams in my place. When I was waiting for trucks to drive by, I saw a semi with its driver's side window down and if I had more balls, I would have asked him to take a part.

Your task: Convince a trucker to take something that is meaningful to you (and meaningless to them) to their destination.