I don't think I'm high ...
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sareaI forgot to share this part of my Seabiscuit experience. So after dinner, I'd gone home to take my pooch out, and then went to meet my friends at the theater. I'm cruising the streets for a parking space (ugh, give me a big cineplex located in a mall with lots of parking spaces), and there looks to be a bunch of them. But there's a sign up that I can't read, so I'm not absolutely sure whether I have a parking space or not. So I'm pulling uncertainly into the spot, my windows are rolled down because it's such a nice night, and this guy is walking by outside, talking on a cell phone, and he stops.
Me: Oh, great. What does he want?
Guy: Are you lost? Do you need directions?
Me: Well, how nice -- and yet odd -- of him to ask. Um, no -- but can you see whether this is a parking space?
Guy: *to friend on cell phone* Hold on, I think this girl's high. I have to help her.
Me: What?
Guy: Looks like it's a space! *gives thumbs up*
Me: *mutters*
High. Honestly. He's high for thinking I was lost when I was parking my car in a legitimate spot on the street. But it was funny when I told my friends about it.
Am not going to participate in the "ask my characters a question" meme because I can't imagine any of them would have anything to say that you don't already know. Maybe when TSA finally gets going, people will have questions and it'll be fun. I'll try to remember this meme for then. Heehee.
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triumvirate was so, so fun last night. Thanks to all the players who made it possible, and especially: two unnamed players that I <heart>, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jade_okelani (who keeps me sane), akscully, and nmalfoy, who also gets enormous hugs because she's not having a good day. I hope you feel better soon, babe! *hugs*
Now, a request. I've made this request before, but it's been awhile and it never hurts to keep asking because one day you might get an answer! :D I have always wanted to read a fic where there was a Tom-Ginny-Draco triangle. Not T/G/D, but a triangle, mind you. Does such a story exist? It's the kind of thing I'd rather read than write, but it's starting to seem that I have no choice ...
Karate:
You shoot yourself in the foot.
Taekwondo:
You shoot yourself in the foot, which is located 6 ft. above ground level at
that time.
Judo:
You shoot a softball at your foot. This is so much fun that you take it into
your daily training routine. After a Japanese term is found it is
incorporated into the curriculum at blue belt level.
Hapkido:
You try to shoot yourself in the foot while performing an elegant circular
movement. You will get hurt in any case. The chance of getting a gunshot
wound is about 50%, thus being equal to the chance of spraining your joints.
Wing Tsun (Leung Ting):
You hear that this technique belongs to an advanced part of the curriculum.
You spend the rest of your life with expensive seminars that are supposed to
prepare you for the aforementioned part.
Wing Chun (William Cheung):
You shoot yourself in the foot. Nobody has heard the shot and no wounds are
visible which is exactly your intention. There will be no indicators of an
injury until the next two weeks have passed because this is a Dim Mak
technique.
Ving Tsun (Wong):
You shoot yourself in the foot. Because of your extremely stable low stance
the bullet penetrates your calf, your knee and your shin. You fall on your
face and lose your teeth. For the rest of your life you show your injuries
as evidences of your style's efficacy.>
Tai Chi:
You practice to draw and shoot in one single fluid movement. After years of
constant training you become one with your weapon but you have forgotten
what to do with it.
Iaido:
You practice to draw and shoot in one single fluid movement. You then spend
the rest of your life imagining how the sound of a shot that is heard by
nobody differs from the sound of a one-handed hand-clapping (during the
peach harvest in Kyoto).
Shaolin Kung Fu:
You develop 108 different movements to draw the weapon together with 108
corresponding stances. However, you refrain from the actual shooting for
religious reasons.
BJJ:
First you build an octagonal cage. There you shoot yourself in the foot in
front of a paying audience. You offer a prize to anybody who can shoot
bigger holes in more feet with fewer bullets.
Aikido:
You miss your foot by about 40 cm. You then spend the rest of your life
trying to change the position of your hand while pressing the trigger so
that the bullet describes a circular path that ends up in your foot.
Boxing:
During training you have difficulties manipulating the trigger while wearing
gloves. The shooting is postponed 6 times because of injuries and finally
cancelled because the pistol doesn't belong to any major boxing federation.
Krav Maga:
You shoot off every single toe with a sub-machinegun. Then you switch to
automatic fire and separate both feet from the legs with carefully aimed
bursts. To make sure they're really gone you jump on top of an Arabian
anti-personnel mine.
Capoeira:
You try to shoot yourself in the foot but miss on the first try. After the
40th reload you realize that you didn't actually learn a martial art and
shoot yourself in the head.
Iron Palm kung fu:
You soon realize that you won't be able to shoot yourself daily in the leg
without proper training. You spend the rest of your life on a quest make
your leg bulletproof by hitting it with various objects.
Ryukyu Kempo:
You carefully pick a spot and shoot yourself once in the leg. Your left ear
muscles are instantly paralysed. You're happy because the technique worked
exactly as you thought it would, and it's obviously superior to Karate
leg-shooting technique.
American Kenpo:
You attempt to shoot yourself in the foot. An 8th degree blackbelt stops you
saying that's not the way GM parker would have done it. He attempts to show
you the way when another 8th+ blackbelt comes and up and tells the first one
he isn't doing it way GM parker would have done it either. An argument
ensues and 15 other 8th+ blackbelt come over and get involved. End result
nobody gets shot in the foot
JKD:
You "trap" the bullet with your leg.
Muay Thai:
Only pansies shoot themselves in the foot. Real men shoot themselves in the
knee or elbow.
Ninjutsu:
Maybe you shot yourself in the foot, maybe you didn't. Anyway, no one saw
anything.
Me: Oh, great. What does he want?
Guy: Are you lost? Do you need directions?
Me: Well, how nice -- and yet odd -- of him to ask. Um, no -- but can you see whether this is a parking space?
Guy: *to friend on cell phone* Hold on, I think this girl's high. I have to help her.
Me: What?
Guy: Looks like it's a space! *gives thumbs up*
Me: *mutters*
High. Honestly. He's high for thinking I was lost when I was parking my car in a legitimate spot on the street. But it was funny when I told my friends about it.
Am not going to participate in the "ask my characters a question" meme because I can't imagine any of them would have anything to say that you don't already know. Maybe when TSA finally gets going, people will have questions and it'll be fun. I'll try to remember this meme for then. Heehee.
triumvirate was so, so fun last night. Thanks to all the players who made it possible, and especially: two unnamed players that I <heart>, jade_okelani (who keeps me sane), akscully, and nmalfoy, who also gets enormous hugs because she's not having a good day. I hope you feel better soon, babe! *hugs*Now, a request. I've made this request before, but it's been awhile and it never hurts to keep asking because one day you might get an answer! :D I have always wanted to read a fic where there was a Tom-Ginny-Draco triangle. Not T/G/D, but a triangle, mind you. Does such a story exist? It's the kind of thing I'd rather read than write, but it's starting to seem that I have no choice ...
Karate:
You shoot yourself in the foot.
Taekwondo:
You shoot yourself in the foot, which is located 6 ft. above ground level at
that time.
Judo:
You shoot a softball at your foot. This is so much fun that you take it into
your daily training routine. After a Japanese term is found it is
incorporated into the curriculum at blue belt level.
Hapkido:
You try to shoot yourself in the foot while performing an elegant circular
movement. You will get hurt in any case. The chance of getting a gunshot
wound is about 50%, thus being equal to the chance of spraining your joints.
Wing Tsun (Leung Ting):
You hear that this technique belongs to an advanced part of the curriculum.
You spend the rest of your life with expensive seminars that are supposed to
prepare you for the aforementioned part.
Wing Chun (William Cheung):
You shoot yourself in the foot. Nobody has heard the shot and no wounds are
visible which is exactly your intention. There will be no indicators of an
injury until the next two weeks have passed because this is a Dim Mak
technique.
Ving Tsun (Wong):
You shoot yourself in the foot. Because of your extremely stable low stance
the bullet penetrates your calf, your knee and your shin. You fall on your
face and lose your teeth. For the rest of your life you show your injuries
as evidences of your style's efficacy.>
Tai Chi:
You practice to draw and shoot in one single fluid movement. After years of
constant training you become one with your weapon but you have forgotten
what to do with it.
Iaido:
You practice to draw and shoot in one single fluid movement. You then spend
the rest of your life imagining how the sound of a shot that is heard by
nobody differs from the sound of a one-handed hand-clapping (during the
peach harvest in Kyoto).
Shaolin Kung Fu:
You develop 108 different movements to draw the weapon together with 108
corresponding stances. However, you refrain from the actual shooting for
religious reasons.
BJJ:
First you build an octagonal cage. There you shoot yourself in the foot in
front of a paying audience. You offer a prize to anybody who can shoot
bigger holes in more feet with fewer bullets.
Aikido:
You miss your foot by about 40 cm. You then spend the rest of your life
trying to change the position of your hand while pressing the trigger so
that the bullet describes a circular path that ends up in your foot.
Boxing:
During training you have difficulties manipulating the trigger while wearing
gloves. The shooting is postponed 6 times because of injuries and finally
cancelled because the pistol doesn't belong to any major boxing federation.
Krav Maga:
You shoot off every single toe with a sub-machinegun. Then you switch to
automatic fire and separate both feet from the legs with carefully aimed
bursts. To make sure they're really gone you jump on top of an Arabian
anti-personnel mine.
Capoeira:
You try to shoot yourself in the foot but miss on the first try. After the
40th reload you realize that you didn't actually learn a martial art and
shoot yourself in the head.
Iron Palm kung fu:
You soon realize that you won't be able to shoot yourself daily in the leg
without proper training. You spend the rest of your life on a quest make
your leg bulletproof by hitting it with various objects.
Ryukyu Kempo:
You carefully pick a spot and shoot yourself once in the leg. Your left ear
muscles are instantly paralysed. You're happy because the technique worked
exactly as you thought it would, and it's obviously superior to Karate
leg-shooting technique.
American Kenpo:
You attempt to shoot yourself in the foot. An 8th degree blackbelt stops you
saying that's not the way GM parker would have done it. He attempts to show
you the way when another 8th+ blackbelt comes and up and tells the first one
he isn't doing it way GM parker would have done it either. An argument
ensues and 15 other 8th+ blackbelt come over and get involved. End result
nobody gets shot in the foot
JKD:
You "trap" the bullet with your leg.
Muay Thai:
Only pansies shoot themselves in the foot. Real men shoot themselves in the
knee or elbow.
Ninjutsu:
Maybe you shot yourself in the foot, maybe you didn't. Anyway, no one saw
anything.
