dad is being a friggin' jerk again
hrm'kay. i was just remembering a nice story my italian teacher told us when i was in junior high
it's called THE COOL SHORT STORY THAT HAS A TITLE BUT MR. MARTIN HERE REALLY CAN'T REMEMBER IT
part 1 of 1, as told my marty :b
hmm, let's just pretend that it's an old legend/fable that was told from generation to generation and thus was never bothered to have it's title mentioned, hmm'kay?
or then again, let's just call it Martin, Who Has A Weird Hiccup Fetish And This Title Has Absolutely Nothing To Do With The Story At All Yay!
"Goddamnit, get on with the damn story already!"
okok, tough crowd : /
So one day, this little half naked kid named Cupid, (who happened to be an archer even though he was logically too young to know how to work a bow and arrow) is going around shooting people in the butt with his arrows so that they may fall in love
awww... : )
anyhow, he's really really tired cause he's been going at it all day (the shooting i mean) and so he decides he needs to take a little nap (cause he is a little kid afterall)
so Cupid comes across this great big cave, and he decides to put down his bow and arrows next to him and he falls asleep
What Cupid didn't know though, was that the cave where he presently rested was Death's hiding spot.
Now Death was also a skilled archer, although a much older person whose face was never seen, but at least he didn't run around half naked. Death's arrows however, were used to kill people who were generally old and had already lived their lives.
And it just so happens that Death was also taking a little nap from a hard day's work. He had set his arrows down along the cave floor and were actually right next to those that belonged to Cupid.
How each of them did not notice the other's presence is still a mystery blah blah blah
Sooo, after a little while Cupid wakes up still groggy and all and he grabs a handfull of what he thought were his arrows, and he goes along on his way. (still half nekkid)
And that my friends, is why today, old fools fall in-love and why young people sometimes die for no apparent reason.
sort of an abrupt ending, but i doubt you'd want to read a really long story, especially the way i tell them :P