Jul 29
Side-arm.
It had to happen, the city’s getting increasingly violent. Gang culture and violent retribution is becoming more accepted.
The city’s fog bound, darkness falls earlier as a result and transforms this friendly suburbia into the stage for a stand-off. An urban Tybalt stands on the pavement, trainers worth more than my daily wage, jeans sagging, a sharp hair cut, gold stud in his left lobe.
His shoulders slumped, all his bravado and swagger draining onto the kerb by his feet. The weapon on the floor in front of him, his opponent sliding forwards to check it out, sniffing over it, securing it under his toe. He looks up at the lad and growls, stares him down.
The gunslinger’s face is streaky, tears and snot drying to a new facade across his, a terrified laddie out of his depth.
We drop the window and my mate leans out to speak to the tot.
“You alright, buddy?”
He gasps back through tears.
“The…the cat won’t gimme my GUN BACK!”
We hop from the cab, shoo the pet off into the bushes and rescue the lurid yellow plastic Super Soaker. He snatches it up and runs for the hills.
‘Nother life saved.
July 29th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
lol
yep you made his day.. super soakers… reckon we need a couple here with all the heat we’re having!
July 29th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Genius. Sheer genius. This is why I read Kal’s blog everyone. Because he is a story-teller and a half.
Love you.
JD
July 29th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
ROFLMAO! I love it
July 29th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Here we are now going to the west side
Weapons in hand as we go for a ride
Some may come and some may stay
Watching out for a sunny day where there’s
Love and darkness and my sidearm
Hey, elan
Here we are now going to the north side
I look at my friends as they start to ride
Ride at night we ride all day
Looking out for a sunny day
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vV0KmOYfomM
July 29th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Excellent! You really know how to cheer up a rubbish shift.
I fear I may have become one of the people that you complain about this evening. Something to do with having ordered 4 emergency type ambulances for chest pain or suspected strokes. None of them were in Edinbugger though so at least you wouldn’t have had to deal.
July 29th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
It’s also VERY foggy up here - I can’t see the fit rowers in the river across from the office!
July 30th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Lol kal great bit of writing , had me giggling over my essay
July 30th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Oy there - you scared me, you did, you git! I thought you got stabbed or shot or something from that first sentance! Consider yourself unmercifully tickled.
July 30th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
This reminds me of a long, hot summer week in the suburbs of Stockholm. We did a houseswap with friends there, which included looking after their cat. Something about the way he stalked around, lord of all he surveyed, coupled with the stifling heat, meant that when we found a giant supersoaker (2 litres!) it was only a matter of time.
Upstairs balcony, iced water, direct shot just beneath his upraised tail.. You have never heard such a noise or seen such a fat, fluffy feline move so fast. God, we were cruel little sods. But we were still laughing the next day.
July 30th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Total belter!
Been occassionally reading you via Tom Reynolds. I’ll now add you to my Google reader
p.s. your page doesnt render well in IE 6! (now I remind myself why I hardly read blogs at work!)
July 30th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Cats are evil. I know this to be true!!!
And for me, a health-hazard.
Poor little mite with his water pistol. Awww.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:43 am
Cats are evil
And you’ve been tagged at http://chaosandjoy.blogspot.com/2008/07/bit-of-change.html
July 31st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Sort of reminds me of the time when, not long moved up from England, I came home and my hubbie said “I’ve sorted out a sectarian conflict today!”
Turned out that he had stopped a little kid being picked on by some slightly bigger kids for supporting the ‘wrong’ football team!
August 1st, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Ach, Kal, that’s so terrible! I feel used.
Cheers,
RD
August 8th, 2008 at 11:57 am
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