How The Bail handles car trouble

November 18, 2009

We just saw The Bail, the first time in a while.  Although he was bright-eyed and happy to see us, we couldn’t help but notice the limp in his step — and plus his head wasn’t as freshly shaven as normal, and he was wearing a homemade bandage over his right hand.

There was story behind this:

When I left the bar last night, my car wouldn’t unlock.  It was like someone had gone and put gunk or something in the keyhole so it wouldn’t turn properly.  I was so mad.  It kept making this grinding noise when I turned the key.  I had a spare key in my wallet, but of course that one didn’t work, either!

So I went back into the bar and I screamed WHO THE FUCK PUT GUNK IN MY KEYHOLE?  No one had any answers.  They just looked at me.  I went to the dining area and I saw this guy sweeping the floor.  I could tell he was trying to avoid eye contact.  He had a guilty look.  No one ever sweeps the floor with that much concentration.  So I went up to him and I said HEY MOTHERFUCKER — WAS IT YOU?   He said he didn’t know what I was talking about, and he went back to sweeping the floor. That made me even angrier!  So I grabbed his broom and yelled and said PAY ATTENTION TO ME, YOU LITTLE LYING MOTHERFUCKER.  I tried to split the broom in half, but it was pretty thick and plus I didn’t pick the right spot.  I hurt my knee pretty bad.   I howled, and then I chucked that fucking broom across the room.  It pierced the drywall like it was a spear!  I did not expect that.  That was pretty cool.

I went back outside and tried to unlock my car.  Still no luck.  So I took off my t-shirt, wrapped it around my hand, and punched a hole in the window.  Now, finally inside my car, you’d think all would be well.  But it wasn’t.  Someone had put gunk in the ignition as well!  I couldn’t turn my car on!

What made it even more infuriating was how sloppy they had  been.  There was a bottle of water in the cup holder that wasn’t mine.  There were some CDs that I didn’t recognize — they even left some of their clothes in my car!  The fuckers!  They had even smoked in my car!  It smelled like cigarettes!

I ended up walking home.  I kept taking breaks because my knee hurt like a bitch and I was really dizzy and also I must have cut a vein or something in my hand because it wouldn’t stop bleeding.  Somewhere along the way I crawled under some bushes and decided to take a rest.  And that’s where I woke up early this morning.  I’m lucky no one found me, cause I’d left this drippy trail of blood on the sidewalk that led right to the bushes!  There were some ants on the sidewalk that were eating some of it –  that sort of grossed me out.

But that’s not even the most fucked up part.  By far, the most fucked up part is that when I got to my house, there sat my car in the driveway.  My key worked!   The inside smelled like cinnamon again!   And the hole I had punched in the window was gone!

I was just walking to class, and I saw him, the dude who had been holding the broom at the bar.  I said hey and I was going to ask him how he fixed everything so quickly — but he ran the other way.

Oh, well.  Guess that will teach him to put gunk in my car’s keyhole.


Dispatches from The Bail

September 16, 2009

Last night we got an email from The Bail, the bald-headed seer, the oracle of Longwood.  For those unfamiliar with The Bail:  he is a fourth year senior who enjoys protein shakes and power cleaning weights in the living room of his apartment.  He is going bald and he doesn’t like it — every morning for the past three years he has gone into his bathroom and shaved his head with a straight razor.  He wants to be a gym teacher.   Occasionally The Bail has these things that are sort of like panic attacks, only much cooler.  He sees the future.  So, it’s sort of like a future attack.

It came about, like all problems come about, from hard drugs.  When The Bail was a junior in high school he once smoked pot with his girlfriend.  He took one drag and boomhe was on a fast road called the Future Attack Turnpike.  Though he eventually returned to reality that day, the future attacks have persisted for The Bail.  Sometimes he will be holding two hundred pounds over his head and his mind will lapse back to that thick fog.  It can get rough.  He once punched a hole in his desk when he had a future attack during A&P.  We told The Bail if saw anything pertaining to Longwood, he should email it to us.  We were just working on a post about swine flu at Longwood when we got this email from The Bail:

I saw the future last night.  Everyone was wearing masks and shit.   It was so fucking scary.  I saw someone wearing one of those suits that the guys wore in E.T.   Shit was madness.  There were all these nurses!  All these people walking around Brock Commons.  Everyone looked like they were almost dead.  There were bandages and shit and blood.  It was chaos, people were roaming the streets. People were dancing and roaming.  There were kids going from house to house.  They were saying the same thing.

You know what he said they were saying?  “Trick or treat.”   Yeah, The Bail saw Halloween.

Stellar work there, guy.  Just when we thought we had a great tip.


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