Dinner Conversations With J: Road Kill Tuesday Edition
(It's just like Casual Fridays only with toe tags and
police tape)

Me: "Hey, I was thinking."
J: "Uh. Oh."
Me: "Hush now, listen. I drive a Toyota and they seem to having those stuck accelerator problems and maybe I can use this to my advantage."
J: "I'm afraid to ask how."
Me: "Well, what if I had, say, a stuck accelerator in a parking lot. You know, as some of the assholes I don't like are going to their cars. And I'm like, 'Whoa, my accelerator stuck!' BAM! BAM! BAM! 'Oh Hell! I'm doing donuts now!' THUMP. THUMP. THUMP. THUMP. THUMP. THUMP. THUMP. THUMP."
J: "Well, I have about given up making the moral arguments to slow you down and will go straight into telling you why it won't work. First, your Toyota isn't one of the ones with the problem. Secondly, what are the odds that the three or four you want to take out are going to line up right in front of you like that. It isn't like you could keep claiming the same 'OOPS. Sorry. Stuck accelerator.' line every other week."
Me: "Perhaps I could bait them to get them all gathered together. You know, tell them all they won a contest or something."
J: (silence)
Me: "Dammit, I'm sick of you destroying my dreams. More pizza?"
Comments
I just can't even imagine all the trouble you'd get into without J's voice of reason! I also know that if you really wanted to do something, you couldn't be stopped! LOL
***You're Damn Skippy. ~Laura
Posted by: Jennifer | March 16, 2010 05:10 AM Comment:1
Shit. Now I want pizza. And to run over people. And a donut.
Posted by: Joe the Blog Stalker | March 16, 2010 05:21 AM Comment:2
Laura, Laura, Laura...I'm afraid "J" is right (as usual)... you could never get them all together, in the parking lot, at the same time. But I know you'll come up with something. Cuz yur gooooood.
Posted by: Doni | March 16, 2010 05:29 AM Comment:3
I thought about going out and buying one of those Toyotas, then running over a few people myself.
Damn that pizza looks good. I'd want thick crust though.
**Can't stand the thick crust stuff, too much dough. I don't like pepperoni either. I pick it off. I vote it off the island. As a matter of fact, I don't really like pizza. ~Laura
Posted by: Mark in IT | March 16, 2010 06:04 AM Comment:4
I'm right with you on this. H keeps hiding the ammo and I keep using up the pizza budget to get more.
Posted by: LeeAnn | March 16, 2010 07:12 AM Comment:5
I kept thinking about doing that, but then was all "shit...I drive a Volkswagon. Maybe nobody will notice..."
***LOL
I had a VW Bug (LOVED IT) when I was in high school and one day my friends lifted it and put it up on the sidewalk. Made me lol but I got even with each and everyone of them. ~Laura
Posted by: kate | March 16, 2010 09:28 AM Comment:6
I bet you could come up with a way to get them all in one place.
And via your sidebar... om nom nom cupcakes!
Posted by: Nicole | March 16, 2010 09:42 AM Comment:7
You could say one of those fugly ass killer spiders was seen nesting near their usual parking spaces and tell them the ONLY safe place was in the middle of the parking lot, away from the edges. Designate the spots for them. In a line. Which would make it very easy when your accelerator fails. Do they have babies? Are they old? Because you could stress the spider eats babies and eats slow old people.
Posted by: alison | March 16, 2010 10:00 AM Comment:8
Clearly, J is just a spoilsport. No running people over, no goat, _nuthin'_.
Posted by: Dave Merriman | March 16, 2010 10:36 AM Comment:9
Sounded like a fun idea, Laura...but the 3 or 4 you want to do in aren't worth jail time....not really even worth the energy of acknowledging their existence...Oh, I'm sorry - I was thinking of the 3 or 4 people I'D like to take out.
:-D
***Yeah. Ignoring them is the right thing to do. But man oh man, to hear their screams right before the thud makes me smile. ~Laura
Posted by: SB Smith | March 16, 2010 02:17 PM Comment:10
The Hub pulls the same thing on me. Always with the stupid details. Just once I'd like to see him get on board and make practical suggestions instead of sticking the Reason Pin into my Crazy Balloon, ya know?
Like, if say I wish I could zap people I hate with harmless but potent voltage by just looking at them, then he'd tell me what the maximum voltage coming from my thoughts would need to be to get the job done. That kind of thing.
**I always want to make their heads explode with just a thought. ~Laura
Posted by: dogette | March 16, 2010 03:19 PM Comment:11
Now if something the size of, say, a Ford F-250 somehow acquires a reputation for uncontrolled acceleration, you may as well rent one and take out some of these people.
Posted by: CGHill | March 16, 2010 07:15 PM Comment:12
I have to comment on the side bar "Bully gets his ass handed to him"
My daughter was bullied by a big boy on her bus. There was a good kid who practiced the drums all the time, carrying the drum sticks with him EVERYWHERE that rode that bus. The bully stabed my daughter with a pencil. Good kid proceeded to play the drumsticks all over the bullys ass. Got kicked off the bus. I went to school and raised holy hell. Good kid was reinstated and the bully was..not suspended, but expelled from school. Heh.
sorry....just had to throw that in here.
I love your side bar contributions.
Thank you!
**You're welcome. I love bully's getting their asses kicked. LOVE IT. ~Laura
Posted by: jw | March 16, 2010 07:33 PM Comment:13
You do realize that word "Reaso" in my comment above is supposed to be "reason" as in "the voice of"? Anyhoo. Fucking iPhone shit.
*** Fixed! I will leave this as evidence in case someone saw it earlier and was all "OMG! Illiterate people!" and they will see it's Steve Jobs' fault. Judgmental fuckers anyway. ~Laura
Posted by: dogette | March 16, 2010 07:48 PM Comment:14
I have to comment on jw's story above. Excellent! Fucking bullies. Just think what kinds of adult assholes they'll be, too. Jesus. Anyway, there was a girl "Kathy" in my grade school class who teased me on the bus for no reason; she didn't even know me. Just a loud-mouthed bitch all up in everyone's shit. I was a nice quiet kid and read a lot and had a small circle of quiet snarky smart friends. I enjoy knowing that "Kathy" is probably a lifer in a women's prison now. Can't say I'm surprised, bitchcakes!
Posted by: dogette | March 16, 2010 08:15 PM Comment:15
Thank you for clearing that up. I just spent 45 minutes googling "Reaso Pin" because I felt illiterate. so thank you for correcting that... I will stop "Googling" and go to bed now.
Posted by: Doni | March 16, 2010 08:27 PM Comment:16
I also meant to tell you, I had a VW bug too. My first car. In college "they" picked mine up and put it on the curb too. Must be some kind of ritual with VW bugs. I came out in the morning and there was my car, up in the landscaping and shit. I was all, "Oh fuck, where are the perpetrators of this amusing prank?" and then I glanced over and there were three pre-med dudes passed out in their own puke on the front lawn of the dorm. It was kinda frosty out and you could see their drunk pre-med breath. Heh.
***I later that day set one of the perpetrators of the crime perpetrated on my bug on fire. Yes, he went up in flames. Well, his shirt did. Bottle rocket injury. I said oops, but he knew not to fuck with my car anymore. Mine was black with a red interior- 3 speed automatic. I loved it. ~Laura
Posted by: dogette | March 17, 2010 07:51 AM Comment:17