goodbye to rosie, the queen of corona ...what. [booster, open]

[tomorrowisblue]

Once upon a time, Booster Carter thought it would be an awesome idea to be trapped semi-nude in a small space with Noriko Ashida and a camera. And let's face it, it WAS an awesome idea. Men have KILLED to be in similar positions

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[talkstothecat]

The explanation would involve chalkboards. That's really all anyone needs to know. (And that's another image that Booster is happier NOT having burnt into his brain. REALLY. Death before... terrifying day time movie situations.)

ANYWAY. Booster gives up the pamphlets easily enough, since that was the point, and decides it's more amusing not to tell Ted where they came from just yet. Although he might consider it just revenge for that impression of Rip, because that's just wrong. "Brr, could you not do that? It's bad enough dealing with the real thing. And anyway, everyone's destiny is different even as they contribute to the flow of the overreaching human destiny, which Rip should know, and there's nothing saying that my destiny doesn't involve sabotaging construction equipment to save the environment. Which totally involves science somehow, I bet, so it's a win-win situation."

... Wait, what. "Also it made Vic smile like a normal person for two whole seconds and he said I should ask you to join too, so you should." WAIT, WHAT. Booster is entirely too casual about this as he makes his way around to climb into the passenger seat.

[tomorrowisblue]

And Venn diagrams. :(

Meanwhile, each and every one of those "wait, whats" is visible on Ted's face, in decreasing stages of calm, sort of like the Rock Meter on Guitar Hero, going from 'green: cruising along,' to 'yellow: ....wait a second' to 'red: WHAT' to BLINKING RED ABORT ABORT ABORT and then you fail the song and you were NINETY PERCENT OF THE WAY THROUGH--anyway.

He jerks open the driver's side door and leans his head in, eyes boggling around behind his glasses, sort of like a human pinball machine!* "Is it your destiny to be in prison for a very long time?"

*patently impossible description

[talkstothecat]

Something like this, perhaps. Only with more circles.

Booster gets a shiftily worried look in his eyes for a second, like... okay, like someone looking both worried and shifty for some reason. The only metaphor which springs to mind is something involving pool, and those cues in the context of eye movements are just PAINFUL sounding D: He takes the opportunity of stowing his bag on the backseat to hide this expression, however, and when he turns back to face Ted it is with his customary grin - you know the one, Ted, it's the grin that always leads to mild trouble that's fun to get into.

"I sure hope not! Going to prison would really limit my chances to see Nori's chest. Anyway, we'd need to get caught first, and the first time they'd probably just give you a slap on the wrist or some community service or something, and Vic isn't in prison so he must know what he's doing. It'll be fun!" That's right, he's using 'we' already. Isn't it nice to be included? :D

[tomorrowisblue]

Many, many circles like horrified mouths SCREAMING IN TERROR. And eyes, steadily changing color in a never-ending rainbow of ....terror, pretty much. Sort of like those bizarre fucking Skittles commercials ripped right out of a Salvador Dali painting on mescaline.

But anyway. Ted eyeballs him with growing suspicion, undercut by a merry buffet of 'totally going to end up doing whatever this is anyway, aren't you' because...that is how they roll. It's always fun until J'onn shows up detention!

"Yeah, but Vic has that 'fade mysteriously into the background' thing." He scrunches up his face and flicks his amazing scarab hood ornament a couple times; it is a thinking tic thing. "Obviously we need another plan."

......yes. Good. You moron.

[talkstothecat]

Booster eyes the scarab thingy much like a cat watching a piece of string being flicked around in front of of it. But the last time he tried anything approaching a pounce involving the scarab, he got smacked by a) the windscreen, and b) Ted's fist, so he stays mercifully still.

"It's true, Vic is a ninja." He adopts a thinking pose, before snapping his fingers and declaring merrily "But we have a get away vehicle."

... He cannot possibly mean what that sounded like he means, can hYES, of course he can.

[tomorrowisblue]

Now HERE, we have a dilemma, for Booster has unwittingly won the day here. If Ted really wanted to get out of this, he could just point out that the Bug is quite unlikely to outrun a cop car, but that violates the boy code where one's car is basically an extension of -- well, never mind.

The point is he can't openly admit this, so basically there's a massive amount of eyeshifting for an extended period of time while Ted drums the steering wheel. Who knows what other people in the vicinity think they're talking about. "Well...yeees. There is that. But I'm driving, okay, we're never ever letting Vic drive. And he has to sit in the back."

Presumably this will prevent Vic from wildly exiting the vehicle in motion or something.*

*no it won't

[talkstothecat]

It cannot possibly be that Booster, being a boy, knows of this boy code and did that on purpose. Of course not, that's clearly impossible. It was totally a lucky shot.

He also cannot sit still whilst Ted is busy non-verbally prevaricating on the matter. Hence Booster is all fidgety and stretches as much as possible within the confined space, so really, those other people in the vicinity are going to have a completely warped idea of the conversation no matter what. If they're even paying attention, of course. And of course, Booster snaps to attention once an answer is forthcoming. "Sure! Sounds good to me, I mean, and I don't see why he'd disagree. Although I could so take a turn once I get my license, right?" Why is he rummaging in his pocket OH GOD IS IT it's just a piece of paper. "I brought you a form! Here."

Oh look, official documentation. That's always fun, right? Even when it involves signing away your sanity for the weekend.

[tomorrowisblue]

Well, either, if there was a target, a big rubber arrow would be vibrating in the middle of it right now. NEVER MIND how that image sounds. This thread is full of innuendo. And...eyes, for some reason.

Ted glances at the form entirely too briefly for what it is and pockets it, like those people who don't read the fine print on their plastic surgery waivers. CAN CAUSE DEATH OR ACCIDENTAL VISITATION OF A GAY BAR. Anyway, he'll show it to his dad, who....won't read it either. "No one drives my Bug." >:E That's usually true, but it is entirely possible Booster will finagle his way into something here. Just not right now. "Besides, you know they make you parallel park now."

He has his suspicions about Booster's ability to do this without reducing other cars to rubble, you see.

[talkstothecat]

The eyes are most definitely Rip's fault. But don't tell him anyone said so D: The innuendo, on the other hand, is a MYSTERY, for all that Ted can shoot his arrows into Booster's-- okay, stopping now.

Booster makes a note of this worrying tendency for Ted to skip over official documentation when he's distracted, entirely for his own good of course. Yes. ... Well, Booster's own good, anyway, since there must be some other way he can take advantage of this. As long as he doesn't get distracted by something else and forget, like all the other ti-- oh hey a conversation :O "They make you do what now?"

That is clearly the most reassuring thing he has ever said.

[tomorrowisblue]

"Parallel park! You know, you have to park between two other cars on the side of the street, like, they're there and there and you want to be there," He demonstrates with hand motions, so seriously, the aforementioned Watchers (no one actually is, unless Vic is perched on the roof of the car listening with a tin can and string, but--look, would anyone be SURPRISED) have completely got the wrong impression now, what with Ted neatly slotting his hands together that way.

Porn. What. WHERE ARE WE. Yes, in the middle of a sentence. "So you just slide your car in there--you don't have any idea how to do that, do you. Do you know how to properly signal when changing lanes? Or check your mirrors when reversing? Or how long to stop at a stop sign?" B|!!! Driving a car is A VERY SERIOUS AFFAIR, BOOSTER.

It would, perhaps, be way more serious if Ted himself did any of these things more than 'incredibly sporadically as it occurred to him' or 'when there is a cop car three feet away'. Also it reminds him it's time to not sit in the parking lot like goofballs anymore, and THUS, they are in motion. Awesome.

[talkstothecat]

Booster would not be surprised at all, really. Then again he is kind of preoccupied watching Ted's hands, so you could get a lot past him right now :O ... WHAT, he's just paying attention, this is SERIOUS BUSINESS! And not hand porn at all, how could anyone get that impression (answer: very easily). And then suddenly, they are moving, whoops. He'd better stop staring and respond.

Aaaaany time now. "I do! I totally do, I know... at least some of that stuff! Maybe not the parawhatever parking part but it doesn't sound all that hard to pick up." Lies. If Ted was listening very carefully, he will have heard the whooshing sound as everything he said went flying neatly over Booster's head just like cars in the FUTURE. "I bet I could do it after one lesson."

No, he couldn't.