…that I had forgotten to create a radio!..and that without it, I’d not be able to listen to the Art Bell program, possibly my only link back to the world from which I came…
Hmmm…
Then suddenly, it came to me…
Krispy Original – voted SDMB’s 19th most popular poster (1999)
… I snapped from my philosophical fog, to find I was inside the 7/11.
“Would you like to try a cherry Coke Slurpee?” the Middle Eastern counter guy asked.
“Uh, no thanks,” I mumbled, still reeling from my recent mental journey to the cosmos.
“I REALLY think you should try a cherry Coke Slurpee,” the counter guy said, a look of purpose in his eyes.
I grabbed a cup, and initiated the dispenser. Out came the frosty goodness – and something else.
I pulled the small item from the top of my cup, and began to wipe the flavorful slush away to see what it was.
Just then, several men burst through the door of the 7/11. The dwarfish one in the middle spied me and screamed,“There he is! Get him!”
I recognized the voice and diminutive stature instantly. It was the midget-arch-nemesis of my nightmares … Vincent Chalupa.
I held the cup in one hand and grabbed the leg of the dwarf in the other, spun and ran up the stairs to the roof of the 7-11.
Breathless, I ran across the roof to the front of the store. Climbing atop the electric green and white sign, I saw every manner of police car, SWAT truck, armored car, unmarked white van and olive-drab jeep scream into the increasing crowded parking lot. As a spotlight from a silent black helicopter hit me, I dangled my “old friend” by his leg and said “I’LL DO IT! I’ll drop the Chalupa!”