Friday, April 01, 2005

The Giant

I was walking to our co-op located in the back of our factory. It was then that I saw this giant. It was an enormous vehicle big enough to crush a baby elephant. Perched atop a trailer even bigger. The trailer must be more than 10m long. The wheels reach up to my chest. But this ginat look more menacing than the ordinary (compared to the giant) trailer. This giant looked like a combo of a forklift and a tank. Its orange and black head stood sturdy, the back of it gushing foul smelling fluid, a mixture of water and oil. Instead of wheel, there were rustic giant gears with spiky teeth. Huge iron plates fitted just so and formed a large necklace wound around the wheels on the right and left side.
5 meters from the trailer, I could see the asphalt were chipped from the extra-ordinary pressure applied by its heavy load. Clay were scattered everywhere. The poor street acquired its condition by getting pressure from a rubber coated wheel. I couldn't imagine what it turn to be when the giant's iron plates touch it.
Isn't it a wonder how men manage to build this kind of stuff?

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