So we've heard someone say "smooth as sandpaper" and something that made me to laugh. It's one of those phrases that sounds so wrong but at the same time so right. It paints a kind of image of something that is out of your mind.
Imagine a guy named Khalifa. He's an used car salesman, and he does his job so well. Whenever he wants to sell his car to a potential buyer, he uses a card phrase: "this ride is smooth as sandpaper," and he says it with so much confidence and with a wink. Or listening against one of the rusty pickup that has been in his garage for years.
Sometimes customers will laugh, but this is the calendar maybe buy the car at last because Khalifa got charm. Khalifa is very charming where when he's speaking. This is the kind that makes you forget the old door of the car or the wet smell of the car in the backseat.
A little kid of 19 years old took the courage and went to meet Khalifa. He got some cash, and he wanted to buy some more, some more windows for the summer. He has been dreaming and looking up to his first car. Khalifa has bought him. He decided to unlock his charming characteristics and attributes and he points to that a faded blue convertible and he said to the kid, "smooth as sandpaper," he says why he was just tossing the key.
The kid paused for for a moment and laughed and kept smiling there. We saw the engine course he sits intact, and the wind was in his hair, and that was pure freedom and happiness. He sold the car to the young boy.
The kid drives that car everywhere, put on road trips, to his first date, to his late night. Although the car was off for sure, it is his now due to the charming effect of Khalifa. So every scratch of the car tells a story.
One night he decided to park under the stars. The radio of the car was already crackling. Thinking about how life is like that car. Thinking the car was not perfect, not polished. But it still gets you where you are going. That is what matters.
And at the end we say "smooth as sandpaper" here. Maybe that is not such a bad thing.
