SPN Ficlet: The Toaster Incident

[caffienekitty]

Title: The Toaster Incident
Characters: John, Sam, Dean
Classification: kidfic, pastfic, ficlet
Rating: General? K+?
Warnings: None
Word Count: 616 words
Disclaimer: I own nothing Supernatural. I used to own this exact toaster.
Summary: "The man can barely work a toaster." John Winchester vs appliance.
Translation Available - Russian. Linked at

Comments

[dodger_winslow]

This is great. I laughed my ass off. Poor John ... defeated by a toaster. Shhh, don't tell the ceiling demon.

[caffienekitty]

Hee, yeah, all that time and all CD would've had to do to get rid of John is baffle him with kitchen appliances. :-)

[dendritejungle]

What a great story to stumble across on a Saturday morning - brilliant! And I feel John's pain more than I would care to admit...

[caffienekitty]

Thanks! I was pleasantly stunned to get a new comment on this story! How did you stumble across it, if I may ask? :-)

[dendritejungle]

"Pleasantly stunned" - I like that. :) Good question. I stumbled across a post you made in the TWoP forums (can't remember where - sorry), liked what you said (I think you were planning to write some meta on the latest episode? Would that have been you?) clicked on your profile and voila! Here I am. (With some other surfing in between that's lost in the mists of earlier-today time and the randomness of my browser's history list.)

[caffienekitty]

Cool! I'm not sure what meta I might be posting when, my brain hasn't stopped exploding long enough to put anything coherent together, and work has decided it needs all of my life now (6-day 60 hour weeks. Yay. I'm heading to work again in an hour)

So, as soon as my brain stops exploding and I have a chance to watch the episode again, there may indeed be meta. Depends if it turns out to be anything salient after the bits settle, 'coz right now I'm still a little blinded by squee :-)

[girlfan1979]

I love this story so much! It's so cute, so John, so wee!chesters, just perfect.

And the author's notes were worth their weight in gold, too.

[caffienekitty]

Hee! In the early days of reading fanfic over at ff.net, I read four stories in rapid succsession that made reference to the "John can't work a toaster" line. I had had the evil toaster of morning conundrums, so I figured, "John's a smart guy, so not being able to work a toaster is a bit odd, but what if it was this pain in the butt type of toaster?" And voila. Toaster Incident.

[dolimir_k]

Boy, do I feel John's pain. Teehee!

He was slightly pained by Dean's tone, which implied John making breakfast was a close kin to John dancing the lead in Swan Lake, but it was only natural, really.

I love this line!

[caffienekitty]

*grin* I don't think John had any illusions about his domestic abilities while the boys were growing up. :-D

[jdsgirlbev]

I too had that exact same *^#@)&% toaster, also now long extinct! Vancouver, huh, St. John's here!

Thanks for posting the links to all these stories at The Backroads... I LOVE them all. (I even have a good guess as to how jam got on the ceiling!)

[caffienekitty]

Hmm... maybe it was a Canadian toaster then... I'm trying to remember where I got mine and, heh, I think it was with Club Z points through Zellers, so maybe. :-D

I'm glad the comm is there. I mean, I don't think John was perfect, but I don't think he was an unrelenting monster, just a guy trapped in a horrific situation, trying to fight his own solitary secret war while raising two boys, and making the usual human mistakes all parents do sometimes.

This is also why the comic series for the show absolutely infuriates me, because not only do they gut John's character and mess up canon five ways from Sunday, they take the core of that dynamic of John and the boys alone against the dark and waste it. So far anyway. I've read up to 4 and am in a glaring contest with issues 5 and 6. Grr.

Heh, sorry, babbling. Hi! *blush*

[caffienekitty]

*giggles at the image*

Yep, flawed heroes are the best.