Presenting: a scene from my life

[brigdh]

Setting: A busy sidewalk along HIGH STREET, the edge of campus

Characters: BRIGDH, CUTE LITTLE GIRL, approximately 10 years old, with her hair in pigtails, wearing a neon pink backpack and mary janes. She is holding the hand of what is probably her OLDER BROTHER, a 20-year-old male, listening intently to her with his head tilted. They are indescribably CUTE.

Scene One:

BRIGDH: *follows CUTE LITTLE GIRL and OLDER BROTHER down sidewalk*
BRIGDH: *thinks* They are, actually, indescribably CUTE.
BRIGDH: *happens to walk within hearing range*
CUTE LITTLE GIRL: So, shit, whatever. I'm like fuck y'all, fuck all those fuckers. Right?
OLDER BROTHER: Mmm-hmm.
BRIGDH: ...
BRIGDH: *ded*

THE END

Comments

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

It was the "relate to me" that caught my attention at the time, and that's the reason I still remember it. I couldn't believe that people, real people walking the streets of a real city, actually used the phrase in ordinary conversation. I recall thinking that we had clearly reached the end of civilization as we knew it, or at least, of English as we knew it.