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05-12-2012, 10:40 PM | #1 |
a state of peace
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So I'm out grabbing something for Mother's Day and notice there's a Dollar General across the street. So I decide what the hell and made my way over & back to the toy section for you know what. Sure enough, a beautiful series of 6 figures hanging on a peg all the way at the top... and a kid about seven staring at the toys in general.
I pick up the SE, the kid asks, "What's that?" "A GI Joe action figure," I reply... pause... slightly longer pause... "Did you want him?" "Na." says the kid and grabs a NERF mini football toy of some sort and acts like he's Aikman with the ball. (Staubach is probably too old of a reference for this crowd.) Score! So I start to pull the rest of the set, the kid is amused by someone buying action figures. Then he looks back up and says, "I have him." Follow the pointing finger, I notice those single pack chibi GI Joe movie figures with Destro on the front peg. "Destro?" I ask. "Yeah," the kid says. "He's a bad guy. Bad guys are bad, that's what mommy says. I don't want to be a bad guy." Suddenly I'm confronted with this moral dilemma. Naturally, I should ask, "And where is your mommy?" so I can confront this woman. The child obviously needs to be saved from this demented and abusive mother.... but it's 8:30 at night and I'd really rather just go get some food and kick back with Sherlock on the DVR. Dilemma... Fuck it. "Kid," I said, "tomorrow on Mother's Day you make sure to give your mom a hug." "Ok." says the kiddo. "And tell her she's not always right." Paid, grabbed food, went home. Ain't no bitch gonna diss Destro like that. ;)
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05-12-2012, 10:42 PM | #2 |
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'bad guys are bad'. she sounds like a real smart broad. helluva way with words, too.
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05-12-2012, 10:43 PM | #3 |
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It seems like the moral of the story is if Storm Shadow can lead the Ninja Force then bad guys can turn good.
Or something like that.
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05-12-2012, 10:44 PM | #4 |
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I would have told him Destro had moral ambiguity more so than genuine badness.
And to ask Mommy about moral ambiguity.
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05-12-2012, 10:45 PM | #5 |
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It's not like DG captures the Princeton crowd for its regulars. ;)
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05-12-2012, 10:45 PM | #6 |
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lol...i will take some nerf footballs and a box of joes...(in bruce willis voice from retaliaton)
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05-12-2012, 11:36 PM | #7 |
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Jesus you are such a creep, quit talking up the kiddies at the DG
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05-12-2012, 11:37 PM | #8 |
god of thunder
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i'd have told him mommy was bad and needed to be punished.
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05-12-2012, 11:43 PM | #9 |
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Why do you think they call them "bad" guys?
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05-13-2012, 12:08 AM | #10 |
a state of peace
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Quote:
Thanks, Becks.
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