Letβs Have Another Bullet Point Story, Courtesy of a Friend
So I have a friend that used to be in the tumblers troupe at the renfaire as a contortionist
We were chatting online and she told me to tell you all this story.
I love Kat dearly
but she forgets that sheβs stupid strong and hypermobile
so one day she throws her back out
bad enough that she needed painkillers and couldnβt stand upright
βBut also I needed Tampons and like. Β A Burrito, real bad.β
sheβs flat on her back in her apartment when she decides this
and, in an
impeccable
leap of reasoning, decides
βI canβt roll my back forward to sit/stand up like normal.
But I can ARCH my back just fine.
SOΒ
Iβm going to do that and get on my hands and feet in a stomach-in-the-air this-shit-belongs-in-a-horror-movie-type pose,
And amble on down to the 7-11β
βAnd get me that Burritoβ
It is,Β
for context,Β
after midnight in July during a wildfire so itβs hot as satanβs own asshole and the moon is red and shitβs already generally cursed.
Imagineyou are some poor sap working nights at the worldβs deadest 7-11, and you hear the door jangle but you donβt see anyoneβs head over the counters.
Whatever.
Except you keep hearing noises like thereβs someone in the next aisle over.Β Β
Fucking around in the burrito section
Itβs also worth mentioning that Kat
1. sings whatever earworm is currently running through her head when sheβs not paying attention
2. sounds EXACTLY like some kind of creepy child from a horror movie when doing so
tonightβs song is something from veggietales.
DUDE ACTUALLY STANDS HIS GROUND
and/or is really fucking high and isnβt sure if heβs tripping balls or notanyway
Kat goes up to pay for her burrito and tampons
She realizes the counter presents something of a challenge, and then demonstrates for me on her kitchen table at 4AM during a different july wildfire,Β
exactlyΒ
how she used the shelves to climb up the counterΒ
like one of the boston robotics beasties
dude stares at her for like, five minutes and says.
βRegisterβs broke.β
βOh No!β Says Kat. βJust Take βem.β βReally? Β I can leave cash-you donβt have to give me change I donβt want you to get in trouble with your manager.β ββ¦Nah.β βOh! Β OK! Β Thank you!β βYeah ok bye.β
Shortly after she arrived back at the apartment, she got a text on her phone from the campus security about Β "A Suspicious Individualβ at tle 7-11.Β
It took herΒ
FOUR
FUCKINGΒ
YEARS
Β to realize she was the suspicious individual
every time this crosses my dash, all i can think is βiβd love to hear this from the perspective of the cashier who encountered some sort of demon buying a burrito on the night shiftβ
@danphanto
























