Without appointment, I stopped by a Venture Capital firm that occupied an old brick school building.
While I was waiting to talk with the VC’s, I challenged Tom Cruise to arm wrestling. I won three out of three rounds, claiming $4000 dollars in betting money. Next, a VC challenged him to the tune of 1 million dollars, and won. Tom Cruise could not keep himself from betting and losing, and eventually stormed off in a huff.
While I continued to wait, I wandered to a different section of the building where an older chinese woman had rented out a 15ftx15ft space. She wanted to convert it into a sales-room where she would sell racing lessons. The room was messy and cramped, and had no less than three full sized desks in it. She offered to pay me to clean it up. Instead I gave her some unsolicited design advice, and left before I was stuck with such a laborious task.
I found myself outside in the woods. I was aware of a new reality show that was about to premiere that night. The show was about woodland giants. As I wandered through the woods, I spotted one of these giant’s toes (it looked like a tree trunk, and was covered in bark). The toe was completely motionless, and I felt like I had uncovered a secret since the show had not premiered yet. I dug my way toward the toe and grabbed onto it. The giant sprang to life and began burrowing deep into the ground, swimming through dirt as though it were water. I held on tight, I knew if I let go I would drown in soil and die. Maybe I did, because everything went black, and when I finally came-to I was in the middle of the forest again.
I made my way back to the VC office where I interrupted a massive meeting of all their portfolio companies. One of the venture partners invited me to stay and participate and offer my insight. I felt awkward and as though that would be inappropriate, and said I would come back some other time.
