the Unexpressed Advantage

This is Peachy, and a good way to replace the previous article as the headliner, seeing as how it doesn’t seem to be getting a very enthusiastic response (although I did get some very interesting emails about it, if you want to know more, just ask).

Here’s a little conversation I had with Joash and Wendy. We were out for a late walk around the neighborhood when we came up to the top of a hill next to the fire station. At the bottom of the hill a firetruck, with lights flashing, was parked in the middle of a busy street. There was a girl sitting next to the firetruck, she appeared to be smoking. We stood atop the street staring at the fire truck for a few minutes, in the midst of a serious conversation but occasionally bouncing back into simple chatter.

WENDY: “Well, what I was thinking was…”

JOASH: “Hey! Let’s go see what the fire truck is doing down there. We’re just standing here on this corner anyway.”

WENDY: “Right. Ok. What I was saying was…”

DAN: “Hey! We can stand here on the corner if we want to. We’re super heros! That’s what we do, we stand on corners guarding the world from evil.”

JOASH: “Yeah!”

DAN: “Sorry Wendy, I didn’t mean to interrupt, it’s just that what I had to say was extremely important and I was afraid I’d forget it.”

WENDY: “That’s ok. This is what I was going to say…”

Wendy continued back into the serious conversation as we made our way down the hill to the fire truck. When we got there, we didn’t see much. The smoking girl seemed to be involved somehow but we couldn’t tell how. As we got very close to the scene, Wendy pointed out that this was starting to make here feel a bit awkward…

WENDY: “Oh man, Now I feel kind of bad for coming down here just to get a closer look. We Canadians don’t usually do this sort of thing.”

DAN: (Loudly) “Are you kidding!? Americans create traffic jams simply forthe purpose of looking at accidents. They clear the road and then we all slow down to get a look as we drive by.”

JOASH: “Ha ha ha.”

WENDY: (Uncomfortable look on her face) "Hey…"

DAN: (Even more loudly) “Oh yeah! Another thing we Americans do really well is talk extremely loud at the most inopportune time”

JOASH: (Laughing – Reaches fist out for brotherly affirmation) “Aw yeah man, put’her there. Go Americans!”

Smoking girl gets up and begins to walk in our direction, we turn the corner and begin to walk down the street, away from the accident

WENDY: “You guys are ridiculous”

JOASH: “Ha ha ha.”

DAN: “That conversation was hilarious”

WENDY: “This better make the blog tonight.”

We continued to walk away into the sprinkling Vancouver rain, talking more about the blog and the prospect of having prostitutes live in our house, and what that might entail (hypothetically, of course). Joash also may have come up with a method to solve world hunger, I’m not sure. – Dan.