Monday Night Open Thread – The funniest thing happened….

Evening all, the pre-season is over and the team cuts will be coming today.  I really feel sorry for the guys on the bubble, the waiting for that call or for the call to not come, must be beyond nerve wracking.  I would be stoned as hell and looking at my phone, of course the THC would probably get me kicked out of the league.  Whelp,you only have to endure 1 more posts of my ramblings till MNF starts back up on 9/9.  I am looking forward to kicking back, getting ripped, and watching another horrible MNF game since the first game will be the Fail Jets vs. the Niners.  I hope SF can end the Jets suffering quickly, mainly by humiliating AAron with lots of interceptions and then having him fall over his own feet, tearing the other Achilles tendon, all while trying to lead a come back drive at the end of the game which ends in an interception.  Sigh, one can hope with thoughts and prayers.

So I thought I would share this memory with you as I was reminded of an incident from my past. So, when I was driving back from PT, sitting at the stop light next to me there was one of the old model VW bugs, painted in a rather bright orange.  Seeing that car reminded me of watching a screaming, hysterical woman driving a VW bug, careening through a plowed field, actively trying to run over two high school boys as they tried to evade her. Now, the two boys were brothers who had been bullying me and my friends for months along our walk home from middle school.  Although there were 4 of us, we were in middle school and the boys attended (when not suspended) the local high school, so the size difference was significant, plus they were quite a bit stronger, and complete and total assholes.

Now, one day, after school, walking home was the same as usual and including the usual bullying, except this time one of our number was down on the ground with some off brand sneakers pressing down on his neck.  The decision between the four of us was to no longer “pay the toll” to walk home.  We had had enough and were finally going to stand up for ourselves, which was was going quite badly for us, when the downed kids mom (Mary) drove up.   Mary came around the curve and saw her baby boy down on the ground and a big redneck holding him down by keeping his foot on his neck (with all of us getting ready to fight).  Mary rolled her window down and started shrilly screaming obscenities as loud as she could.  The rather startled bullies started running into a nearby plowed field; however, she just followed, driving right through the roadside ditch and into the field, she probably chased them for 2 to 3 minutes but it felt like forever as the 4 of us just stood and watched mouth agape at this skinny orange headed lady, about 5’1″ and 95lbs, screaming obscenities in her shrill voice, driving a bright orange VW Bug through a plowed field bouncing up and down, and trying to hit these 2 suddenly scared shitless high schoolers.  Oh, the flying hubcaps, those shine curved discs of chromed metal, sailing like frisbees at the beach.  She was finally getting the hang of driving under such conditions when they were finally able to escape.  She calmly drove through the field, through the roadside ditch, back onto the road and came back over to check on us, and grabbed Greg (her son).  From my understanding she sent her husband to find the hubcaps.

The bullies never bothered us again.

About 10 years ago my father told me that he had had a conversation with the bullies about that day, and my father stated that the guy started swearing and cursing for a bit, after which he told my dad that he was afraid for days afterwards that she was going to hunt them down and hurt them, and orange VW bugs still easily startled him.

Sports – who cares there are no NFL games, but soon, soon.  I am currently watching a documentary about the role playing games from World of Darkness, particularly Vampyre: the Masquerade, free on youtube, pretty cool and there are some freaky freaky people out there.

 

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Mid 50's geek/nerd, avid reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy, manga, Chinese Web novels, and British mysteries, cult movies are my thing (have you seen Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter?)
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ballsofsteelandfury

That’s a wonderful story!

I’m curious what caused your father to speak with the bullies….

WCS

I genuinely can’t recall what the last non-animated movie-film I’ve seen at the movies, so Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is going to have to become the answer.

Dunstan

Did someone take John McEnroe in the “announcers who need to shut up” draft? Because if not, then I’m claiming him as an undrafted free agent.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Oh, the Dr. Mrs. would definitely follow that up with Chris Evert. She hates her.

Dunstan

How can anyone hate Chrissie? This is just wrong. Wrong wrong wrong.

I hope her vacuums malfunction!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Please don’t; that just means more work for me.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

blaxabbath, after catching his first wave (artist’s conception):

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2Pack

Dress like this and nobody bugs you.

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Don T

Great story!

2Pack

Greg’s Mom is a true Mom of the hood. Was her name Sharon by chance? That sounds totally Sharon to me.

I had a thing inhearited from my Dad that I did with bullying shits. I would just close in and stare at them with my mean face. Not a word just stare at them. Works every time.

BeefReeferLives

The Bug vs. The Bullies tale reminded me of this fun scene. The Texas version, I suppose..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdrCG9sATu8

Cute lil bunner! Is he in bunny jail for some reason?

Unsurprised

Sounds like she’s a political prisoner.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

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WCS

She did kick a giant mouse in the butt.

BeefReeferLives

Silly rabbit! Baseboards are for… (what ARE baseboards for, really?)

Gumbygirl

To catch dirt and dust, and make you look like a slovenly slattern!

LemonJello

Slovenly Slatterns would be a pretty good FF team name.

Unsurprised

Say what you will about the CGI blood spatter but John Woo can still direct the fuck out of action scenes.

Sharkbait

Back to back hockey games tonight. Not only did I lose both of them, but I can already tell tomorrow is gonna suck.

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Unsurprised

I feel like dying and all I did was eat a rotisserie chicken.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Feel like dying? Unsurprised did a bad bad thing…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRxxh3CzJXk

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

(the funny thing is that this song was actually playing when I read the above comment)

blaxabbath

Yes–

Get those snowflakes this first aid kit in their office.

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blaxabbath

Here’s what I’ll say about surfing.

It’s all I live for.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Yeah, it’s pretty great.

Gumbygirl

You are the Big Kahuna!

WCS

Duke WCS somehow calls the slide at the park the Big Kahuna. This is absolutely true.

Gumbygirl

How old is His Highness now?

WCS

22 months… at what point do we just say “almost two”?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Two months ago.

WCS

I was going to recommend “eleven months ago” but then I realized that’s precisely what my old man would do.

Damn it…

Unsurprised

No jury in the world …

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I feel like the story in tonight’s post could be made into a fun horror/comedy film about a suburban mom who starts murdering bullies. Working title “Orange Slice”.

(the title somehow connects to an incident that’s related to the mom providing orange slices for the halftime of a kids’ soccer league game, and also how her VW bug kind of looks like an orange slice)

jjfozz

The Murderous Milf

Fields of Fire, Fields of Blood

The Redneck’s Racing Revenge

Unsurprised

BTW, Serial Mom is hilarious

Unsurprised

I want to dig up Adolf Dassler’s nazi corpse and shove these fucking shoes up his corpse’s fucking ass

litre_cola

and there are some freaky freaky people out there.

In here. ftfy.

blaxabbath

I search Amazon for Roomba and I get a second brand — roborock — that is their competitor now?

Bogdanski

I think we have a resident vacuum expert…

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Yeah, we’ve got a Roomba downstairs and a Eufy upstairs. The Roomba very rarely makes it back to its base before running out of battery, while the Eufy doesn’t have that issue but it *does* get stuck in many places. I know nothing about the Roborock brand but given my experience with these other two I’d probably give it a shot, because why the hell not?

blaxabbath

Because it might score poorly on the “Rate My Bots” series.

Unsurprised

Not a competitor. Just a cheap Chinese knockoff. You can’t trust anything on Amazon or anywhere else online.

WCS

Probably be better received than Balls’ poorly-timed “Rate My Dong” attempt at the RNC.

Redshirt

Well, gee. I would save something like that for Sexy Frid—. Oh, “Bong”! Sorry, poor eyesight.

blaxabbath

I would be interested to hear REAL TALK / HOT TAEKS on smoking devices.

litre_cola

Juice jug, fill with 3/4 water, two litre (nice) btl with bottom cut out, remove cap, aluminum foil for a bowl. Get really high with science!

Unsurprised

I think it was Louis C.K. a decade plus ago who was like “I didn’t realize they’d been working on [pot] like it was the cure for cancer” about how much stronger it is now.

BeefReeferLives

Tastier, too. Amazing how they have strains that smell and taste like fruit and how they’ve bred them for all the different terpenes.

jjfozz

Or focus on porn stars and call it Rate my Dong

LemonJello

“They call wieners, ‘dongs’ on that funny website mom doesn’t like me going to!”

-Eli Manning, probably

Unsurprised

“Peyton would call it walking the elephant around the house.”
– Eli M.

Gumbygirl

Every kid should have a mom like Mary!

SonOfSpam

“Yeah. Immaculate my ass.”

-Joseph

LemonJello

“But the Mary Magdalene, she can party!”

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jjfozz

Poor Joseph, he did all the work and never got to have any fun.

LemonJello

These next few days until the fitbaw returns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMyCa35_mOg

Gumbygirl

I think we all agreed last year that the week between the pre-season ending and the regular season starting is somehow even worse than the off-season.

scotchnaut

Canadian Sportscenter showed the odds of which hockey player will score the most goals so that they could feature a pic of Austin Matthews for 45 seconds. JFC…

LemonJello

Any word on the playoff hopes of one Toronto Maple Leafs team?

jjfozz

I am almost a fully converted NHL fan, my sons got me into it late last season and I was amazed at how much those players made NFL players look like pussies.

Redshirt

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