Monday, July 9, 2012

If Clark Was My Big Brother

Dear Wal,

First of all, I want to make sure you all know which Clark I'm talking about. I have never read a Superman book in my entire life.
This Clark
Secondly, I would probably slap him a lot. For failing at girls, and friendships, and generally being an idiot. (Although, he does improve post-Lana. Mostly.) And then I would take away that ridiculous trench coat. Superman (even pre-tights Superman) isn't meant for black, and he doesn't wear it well at all. I can understand him running around in that pre-costume if Superman was a vigilante-type character, but he's not.
I'm getting sidetracked.
The thing about Clark is that he would be incredibly useful on a farm. Having his spacecraft crash in a corn field was a stroke of genius. He wouldn't have been Clark if he had crashed in, say, a Metropolis suburb (Parallel universe opportunity here guys!), but he also wouldn't have anything to do. The occasional broken pipe or blown light bulb, but not the sheer amount of work he has to do living on a farm. If you don't live on one, you don't understand the amount of work that has to be done. There's the establishing of the farm building of a barn(s) and fencing and piping water out to the aforementioned barn and then making sure your animals in aforementioned fencing have water as well. (And if you live in a cold climate, this has to be water that doesn't freeze during the winter. I can't count how many mornings I've spent breaking ice in water buckets and water troughs.) Then you have to maintain all of it, which is not such a big deal for the barn but for the fencing it is. 
I know I've ranted about all the stuff I have to do before so I won't go into that. But Clark could fix our electric fence in two minutes flat, while that task alone for me usually takes an hour before, and he could paint the barn and build a proper wall for the tack room so Buzzy couldn't get in and fix the stall doors that Zanzibar ruined...etc. etc. in one evening. He would probably do a better job with the fence than I ever do. 
Think about it. All those snapped, stretched out wires he could just melt together with his heat vision, and he wouldn't have to worry about getting spontaniously shocked when the charger glitches out. He could just drive a new post into the ground with one hand. And if you ever needed anything carried from one place to another (Such as a really heavy box of yarn. I will get to that in a moment.) then you could just ask him. And if you got the tractor or the truck or the horse trailer stuck...there would just be a whole host of things.
Now I really want to write a parallel universe Clark with a younger sibling. I actually think it would have helped him not fail so badly.
Where did all this come from? Well, I'm always saying...If I was a Kryptonian, I could totally lift that. Or...If I was a Kryptonian, I could totally just fly to Bilo and get us some ice cream. But the other day I had to carry a box of yarn out to the office for Mom. It was really heavy. Yarn is surprising substantial. Anyway, we both had to carry it because it was so heavy, which got me thinking about having Clark around to carry/fix things. Which lead to the whole rant above.

If you were Kryptonian, what would you do? (And don't say take over the world Austin. D<)

/endrant

P.S. My hair survived three hours of behind in a helmet and getting snagged on things while four-wheeling with only minimal fuzz. I win, hair. I win.

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