Ridin along in my allegorymobile... dun-duh-dun-duh-dun-duh-duh...
OK. So storytime. Just assume these things I tell you are true. Some may not may sense, but they are true in the story. Also, if you've read this far and are looking for one of my stories with a funny part, this isn't one of them. At least I don't think it's funny. Maybe in a Chekov sort of way... eh... It also has no point. If you've ever heard ANY of my stories, you'll know that that is standard.
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So, ok. There was this guy and this girl. Or two guys. I like a guy and a girl better for this story, although it really doesn't matter. So, these two people get a hover-car. They don't know a whole lot about hovercraft, but they really like this one and learn some stuff along the way. Mostly they just really enjoy the hovercar. It's neat! Other people admire their handsome conveyance. They go every where in the car and eventually come to depend on the hovercar. It's like it's a part of them. They both swear to always take care of the little ACV and keep it up and fully functional. Why wouldn't they? They both love the thing. It's awesome. Hovercar!
At some point the guy spills his drink into the ill-placed SR-N4 drive-motivatabulator unit (it has a vent in the center console so that accidents can happen). He's worried that the girl will get mad at him. I mean, it has a sign that clearly says, "The Drive Motivatabulator Cannot Drink Water." His spilling a drink in there counts as not taking care of the hovercraft doesn't it? He stays quiet, hoping the drive thingum will just dry out on it's own, never realizing that it needs to be replaced, since he doesn't know enough about it to do so.
So the whole thing starts working less well. Now, from time to time one of them has to jump out and push while the other steers. This is much less fun than riding together. At least they have the parts where they go down hills, though (this means extra stress going up hills). He keeps quiet about the drive thing, but she knows something is up. She stops taking all of her trash out of the car with her when she gets out and sometimes just to be contrary she pees in the backseat and then pretends there isn't anything that smells bad. She is kind of crazy but oh well. Hovercar!
The hovercar is just internally reaching the point where it is unlivable when the innards give out completely and it settles to the earth, never to move again. The girl still doesn't know why, and the guy says nothing. The guy hops out and says he wants to just walk for a while. The girl is upset, "they had promised!" Then she realized what it must have been. She had been peeing in the back of the car of and on for months. It must have seeped through the carpet and corroded something. Or maybe it just drove the guy to sabotage the car in some way. It was all her fault.
Then, a while down the road, the guy says that he has a confession. He confesses all and she realizes that it must be true and how much sense it makes. She is of course forgiving of the original action. It was a stupid mistake. She has trouble with all of the rest of it though and in her frustration pees in the back of the car while inviting him in and explaining how easily the drive-motivatabulator can be replaced. The repair is fairly easy to do, but a new part must be purchased. Except... she's urinating in the backseat. This makes him realize that the smell has been bothering him horribly and that it WAS her making it! Ack! That horrible smell. Also... she's peeing in the back of the car. How much of a turn off is that? So he says that he has to think about it and backs off. She is confused. He broke it but it can be fixed. Why is he hesitating to fix it?!?!? What is wrong? Is it her? Is it... oh. Then she realizes that she has been a fool! A dreadful dreadful fool! She has been peeing in their beautiful hovercar! She has made it so that even if it was fixed, the guy fella wouldn't want to ride in it any way. She starts trying to clean the car... it's very difficult. Months of urine don't just come out of carpet.
So she is still cleaning when the guy drives past in a new hovercar containing a different girl. He drops off the needed part and then rides away. The girl sadly repairs the hovercraft and finishes cleaning it. You could still kind of smell the urine. Also... she didn't really have any place to ride in the hovercraft, no destination... So... There she waits with her dingy and empty ACV... Hoping he'll come back so they can play again... crying quietly into the drive-motivatabulator vent...
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MORAL: Check the damn hovercraft all over sometimes and trust what you see. Then fix it your own damn self. Sometimes the other person can't fix it, so it's your job to help them so that next time you can both do it. No one is born knowing hovercraft repair... well almost no one. Also, if you are going to pee in the hovercraft, expect that no one will want to ride in it with you. On the other hand, if you spill something in the MOST IMPORTANT vent ever, don't lie about it. Just say so, so it can get fixed. Really. Also, if you do lie... and later you tell the truth... expect that it will take some time to get the pee out of the seats. Lastly, if you refuse to do any of these things, or if the other person in the hovercar is a putz and won't give the ACV another chance, stop crying and get a hoverboard. Michael J Fox hella rolls like that. You can too.
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So, ok. There was this guy and this girl. Or two guys. I like a guy and a girl better for this story, although it really doesn't matter. So, these two people get a hover-car. They don't know a whole lot about hovercraft, but they really like this one and learn some stuff along the way. Mostly they just really enjoy the hovercar. It's neat! Other people admire their handsome conveyance. They go every where in the car and eventually come to depend on the hovercar. It's like it's a part of them. They both swear to always take care of the little ACV and keep it up and fully functional. Why wouldn't they? They both love the thing. It's awesome. Hovercar!
At some point the guy spills his drink into the ill-placed SR-N4 drive-motivatabulator unit (it has a vent in the center console so that accidents can happen). He's worried that the girl will get mad at him. I mean, it has a sign that clearly says, "The Drive Motivatabulator Cannot Drink Water." His spilling a drink in there counts as not taking care of the hovercraft doesn't it? He stays quiet, hoping the drive thingum will just dry out on it's own, never realizing that it needs to be replaced, since he doesn't know enough about it to do so.
So the whole thing starts working less well. Now, from time to time one of them has to jump out and push while the other steers. This is much less fun than riding together. At least they have the parts where they go down hills, though (this means extra stress going up hills). He keeps quiet about the drive thing, but she knows something is up. She stops taking all of her trash out of the car with her when she gets out and sometimes just to be contrary she pees in the backseat and then pretends there isn't anything that smells bad. She is kind of crazy but oh well. Hovercar!
The hovercar is just internally reaching the point where it is unlivable when the innards give out completely and it settles to the earth, never to move again. The girl still doesn't know why, and the guy says nothing. The guy hops out and says he wants to just walk for a while. The girl is upset, "they had promised!" Then she realized what it must have been. She had been peeing in the back of the car of and on for months. It must have seeped through the carpet and corroded something. Or maybe it just drove the guy to sabotage the car in some way. It was all her fault.
Then, a while down the road, the guy says that he has a confession. He confesses all and she realizes that it must be true and how much sense it makes. She is of course forgiving of the original action. It was a stupid mistake. She has trouble with all of the rest of it though and in her frustration pees in the back of the car while inviting him in and explaining how easily the drive-motivatabulator can be replaced. The repair is fairly easy to do, but a new part must be purchased. Except... she's urinating in the backseat. This makes him realize that the smell has been bothering him horribly and that it WAS her making it! Ack! That horrible smell. Also... she's peeing in the back of the car. How much of a turn off is that? So he says that he has to think about it and backs off. She is confused. He broke it but it can be fixed. Why is he hesitating to fix it?!?!? What is wrong? Is it her? Is it... oh. Then she realizes that she has been a fool! A dreadful dreadful fool! She has been peeing in their beautiful hovercar! She has made it so that even if it was fixed, the guy fella wouldn't want to ride in it any way. She starts trying to clean the car... it's very difficult. Months of urine don't just come out of carpet.
So she is still cleaning when the guy drives past in a new hovercar containing a different girl. He drops off the needed part and then rides away. The girl sadly repairs the hovercraft and finishes cleaning it. You could still kind of smell the urine. Also... she didn't really have any place to ride in the hovercraft, no destination... So... There she waits with her dingy and empty ACV... Hoping he'll come back so they can play again... crying quietly into the drive-motivatabulator vent...
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MORAL: Check the damn hovercraft all over sometimes and trust what you see. Then fix it your own damn self. Sometimes the other person can't fix it, so it's your job to help them so that next time you can both do it. No one is born knowing hovercraft repair... well almost no one. Also, if you are going to pee in the hovercraft, expect that no one will want to ride in it with you. On the other hand, if you spill something in the MOST IMPORTANT vent ever, don't lie about it. Just say so, so it can get fixed. Really. Also, if you do lie... and later you tell the truth... expect that it will take some time to get the pee out of the seats. Lastly, if you refuse to do any of these things, or if the other person in the hovercar is a putz and won't give the ACV another chance, stop crying and get a hoverboard. Michael J Fox hella rolls like that. You can too.