Sep 01, 2008 09:44
I was going to a philosophy club meeting with the president, when we walked by a street vendor with lots of bike locks hung around him. I stopped and asked the president if we had time to stop, and explained that I was thinking about buying a bicycle and was wondering if he had any good bicycle locks. Suddenly then the dream turned into an infomercial and he starting going on and on about how he just got this new super powerful guaranteed unbreakable lock in. He then took out a long string of broccoli.
A blowtorch randomly appeared in his hand as he said to watch as he demonstrated the awesome power of broccoli. He put the torch onto the broccoli but it didn't melt or anything. But then the president of the philosophy club was like "That's crap, you just held it at an angle! It's a trick, a trick I say!" So the guy redid it, but again, the broccoli did not melt. I then told the street vendor that that was absolutely amazing and that I wanted to know how much it cost. He then told me that it didn't cost anything, but that instead if I wanted it I had to throw it into the air and catch it behind my back. I told the vendor that such an awesome and powerful device ought to be paid for, and that I would feel bad simply taking it. But the vendor then said that that was the way it must be done, and that the only way to get it is to throw it into the air and catch it behind my back. I did this, and took the broccoli with me. As I walked towards the meeting with my broccoli, cheese had somehow appeared on it and I was just casually snacking on it despite that it was "unbreakable" just a few moments earlier.