[Superman]

During the summers between my college years I returned to my home town and worked in the plywood mill. I mostly pulled green chain. Veneer green chain. The 'chain' goes by at the rate of 4.5 feet per second. With one hand you grab the trailing edge of the veneer sheet or strip and flip it to your other hand, where you guide it into a stack. Sometimes you have to turn stuff over and inspect, decide and pull. Quickly.

By the end of the summer, the entire world was moving in slow motion. I'd be having beers with the guys and someone would knock a bottle off the table. I remember watching the bottle fall, thinking about whether I wanted to catch it before it hit the floor, deciding to go ahead and catch it, then reaching casually down and grabbing it before it hit. Remember that game where you try to slap the top of the other guy's hand? Yeah.......I would have been delighted to play that game for money.