Today we have a serious post. A dear friend of many here at Flattire is leaving Austin,TX to head back north to Wisconsin where he will be attending law school at Marquette University. This is a sad occasion, so we'll try to celebrate the man named Garet, the one we call "The Cheese Lover."

Garet drunk was always a good time. Sometime he'd get just plain retarded (see above). One time he tried to do one of his coolest magic tricks where he weaves a rope in and out of a girls shirt all tied up in knots, and magically makes it come undone. Abbra-Kadabra, he was too drunk to weave the rope in right and nearly ripped the girls shirt off. Another time he was so drunk he thought clear packing tape would make good eye protection (don't ask why we needed it). It worked until he got his eyelashes stuck to it, and let's just say his eyebrows were a bit thinner the next day.

One time after Tom spilled Bacardi 151 on himself, Garet threw a lit match at him. This was ok though, since Garet's a volunteer fireman. There's no way Tom would've burned for more than 8, maybe 9 minutes.


We've been biking with Garet, through rain and blistering heat, dripping in sweat and blood, with nothing to show for it but scars and bruises we wear proudly. The poor guy even knocked his teeth out once.


Garet and started work at the same company a month apart from each other, and he's always helped me out. He's even lied for me in peer reviews for as long as I can remember.


Garet introduced me to guns, hockey, and some of the weirdest porn I've ever seen. Tom and Garet used to love smoking cigars, so much in fact that they'd use matches as a makeshift roach clip to get every bit of that sweet smoke.


So now he's heading back to school, to get his learn on. One day he'll be a big shot lawyer, and he'll be able to bail Tom and me out of trouble because of something we've said here at Flattire.

This is what Garet will look like after law school. Apparently a law degree forces you to wear suits, and also makes you look 5 years younger.


Let's not forget that Garet was also a great foosball player. We'll miss him and the way he always keept it real. Real white. Godspeed, cheese lover.