Wednesday, March 24, 2004

The Courage of the Kid in the Car

JadedJu was called a 'fat cow' by some braintree surgeon in a car. Now, it's bad enough to live in a world where people think yelling insults at complete strangers is acceptable or will even earn them valuable points, but the drive-by service intrigues me. What was she doing to merit the attention? Standing in the crosswalk and flashing truckdrivers? Bouncing on the hoods of parked cars? Wearing a cow suit and passing out grocery coupons? The mind reels.

Now, assuming Ju was just behaving (as I suspect) in a normal, walking-down-the-street manner, what was this fellow's motivation? How many points is 'fat cow' worth in the macho-meter? Does he win a valuable prize? Will some low-self-esteem, low IQ girl now sleep with him (how many points does SHE cost?) Will his friend in the car stop cracking beer cans on his head at parties? Will his penis get bigger?

Now there's a thought. Is there an urban myth circulating that being an asshole, especially in public. earns one points toward penis enlargement? No, that can't be true...there'd be too many rednecks having to haul themselves around in carts in this county.

Or maybe it just takes a few million points per centimeter. "Fat cow" is worth maybe three points, and I'd detract one for using the coward approach in delivering the insult from a moving car and driving off. Let's assume that giving the same insult to the same person in a 24 hour period reduces the value of the subsequent insults by another point, so there's not much point in driving back by for a second "fat cow" on the same person. At two points an incident, it's going to be a very, very long time for that fellow.

He'd be better off answering spam.
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