Thursday, April 25, 2002

"O fortuitous day!" They were sitting at lunch, in their usual places. If Judgement Day were to come, and all five of them were to be swept away in a beam of light, (unlikely, seeing as they were all either atheist, agnostic, alleged pagan but really agnostic, and other) you would be able to tell who sat where by the lunches in front of their seats. Or, in one case, the lack thereoff. The one with the peanut butter and jelly cafeteria lunch always complained that the peanut butter tasted like paint thinner. When told to shut up and buy something else, he would usually whine even louder. The other one always bought something hot, if not the daily special, then a cheeseburger. The next one had fries. Just- fries. With salt mixed in with the ketchup. The one after him, the lone female, always brought a slightly squishy, flattened sandwich wrapped in tin foil, and a bottle of water. The last of them didn't eat lunch, unless you counted the one day he brought in a bag of slightly stale Italian bread.

"You mother finally kicked you out the house and you leaving this school?" Peanut butter and jelly was always ever so cheerful, and always spoke with such an atrocious accent.

"Nah, guess again." French fries needed to work on his enthusiasm.

"Tell us, tell us, tell us!" Cheeseburger needed no help whatsoever with the enthusiasm. None.

"I have had a great deal of good fortune dumped in my lap."

"Good Fortune gave you a lap dance?" Tinfoil and water had already finished her sandwich.

"Oh, yeah. And she was good, too. I got a visit from the anime fairy."

This announcement was greeted with immediate disinterest from PBnJ and Cheeseburger, though 'Burger did bounce a bit hyperactively in his chair.

Tinfoil and water looked condescending. "Honey, the anime fairy doesn't exist."

"Then I guess this isn't the Cowboy Bebop movie in my hand, is it? And these aren't the first three disks of Kenshin?"

An astonished silence settled over the table. PBnJ and Cheeseburger, not having any interest in anime, looked bored. But Tinfoil and water and No lunch stared in shock. "D-duuuude," No lunch choked out.

Tinfoil and water's eyes were round. "Sh-she does exist?"

"Yup. The anime fairy is real, ladies and gentlemen. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise." French fries looked disgustingly proud of himself.

"Amazing. So did the Cafeteria Lady Gnome give you those fry for free, or you have to buy youself?" As always, Peanutbutter spoiled the mood. For his trouble, he received both a kick and a thwapping and several balls of tinfoil to the head. Life went on as usual.

The end.


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The really sad part is that this more or less happened. Not in quite so many words, but this, my dear friends, is what lunch is like for me. I WEEP. I never got a visit from the anime fairy...

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