Street incident #1
I was waiting at a stoplight this morning, and when I got the “Walk” light there was a car temporarily stuck across the pedestrian walkway, backed up behind other cars. A pedestrian (young man) standing next to me decided to walk up on the car’s hood and down the other side instead of going around. The man driving the car ignored him.
Discussion questions:
Did the pedestrian teach the driver a valuable lesson?
If the car had contained a couple guys who looked like ex-convicts instead a mild-looking older man, would the young man still have had the courage of his convictions?
WW”B”D? What would “Bob” do in this situation?
Street incident #2
On another occasion I was walking to the bus and two women were walking in the opposite direction, towards me. One of them approached me, stopped and said, “Howcumyiamnotdrunkyet?” I replied, “What?” She responded, “How come I’m not drunk yet? Ask her.” She pointed the other woman, who was several feet away and looking embarrassed. I asked the other woman, “How come she’s not drunk yet?” She only giggled as I continued on my way and they on their way.
Discussion questions:
Should I have offered to buy them a drink?
Should I have answered the question with, “Because you haven’t prayed to Jesus hard enough?”
Do you think the women were travelers from the distant future who were still perfecting their 21st century vernacular?
WW”B”D?
Filed under: personal and none of your business | Tagged: "Bob", pedestrian, street incident, SubGenius
case 1a: no, from the sounds of it, the driver was in a drunken stupor (and thus should have contacted the young lady in scenario 2) and oblivious to external phenomena.
1b. only the young man in question can answer that.
1c. I prefer Bob the Skull (ref. Harry Dresden) as my Oracle.
2a.it would have been improper for YOU to offer to buy the young lady a drink. A sip from your hip flask might not have been out of order ..
2b.did she have water with her? (so that Jesus could transubstantiate it?) Otherwise, .. no
2c. Scenario description doesn’t support “travellers from the future” (futurama, perhaps). “Aliens from Space” or “travellers from a parallel Earth”, maybe.
2d. Again, Bob the Skull isn’t much on drink, but a good lurid Jacqueline Suzanne novel would be appreciated.
Yes.
1a) he may have intended to teach the driver some sort of lesson about putting his car in the middle of a crosswalk, but that doesn’t mean the driver learned it.
1b) you assume he walked over the hood of the car to prove a point to the driver – it could be he was just as oblivious and didn’t realize that the big bump in the road he climbed over was a car.
1c) “Bob” is busy with the young lady from example 2, so he’s not here to do anything.
2) yes, buy the ladies a drink. it was her way of asking you to buy her one without saying “hey, you! Buy me a drink?” Don’t bring Jesus into it, and the reason she wasn’t drunk yet is because “Bob” was tending bar and she was getting watered-down beverages, because, for “Bob”’s purposes, it is better she stay a little buzzed rather than full-on sloshed.
if she was all-the-way drunk when you encountered her, she might have puked on your shoes, and “Bob” was just sending her forth to try to get you to spend money on booze.
Maybe “Bob” wanted her to puke on my shoes just for pure malevolent glee, but he failed in his mission. Just like he screwed up X-Day in ‘98.