Hope you enjoy, hm that’s a bit too optimistic...Hope you like it!

Imagine a dark room, clear your mind, jump right in...

"Oh come on...laugh with me!"

Don’t look him in the eye

"Anything can be funny.  Anything.  What happened to that optimism?"

Just turn away.  Don’t make eye contact.

"Hrmph.  I’ll make a believer out of you yet, kid.  I don’t give up that easy."

Yeah plaster that smile on spanky, wait don’t, it’s making me queasy

"I got it! The Hindenburg!"

Oh God...

"Have you ever seen the burning of the Hindenburg to Benny Hill music?"

You have to be joking

"I mean you can still hear the radio commentator going on and on, ‘Oh the humanity!’ and all that dramatic crap...But in the background, hey listen to this, ya know the theme to the Benny Hill show?

You sicken me.

"The old brit chasing the girls in their skivvies?

A dirty old creep, like you?

"And the music with the circus calliope going and the marching band sound effects?

What the hell is wrong with you!?

 "It’s playing!!  Don’t you see?  It’s funny.  It’s funny!  Laugh?  Laugh, please."

 "Get away from me." I want to vomit.

"Well that’s a start.  A conversationalist, eh?"

He’s smiling, the crazy shit is smiling

"Hmm...What’s the most horrible thing you can think of?"

 The past few minutes with you?

"Getting molested to Mahana Mahana! You know, that Muppet song"

 !?!?!?!

"The Muppets. Heh. Reminds me of the kids.  Jamie’s in sixth, Pat’s just starting high school.  Young things, just like you."

 I’m going to vomit.

"It’s Animal singing it you know.  That’s my nickname, Animal"

 Shit.

"He always got people to laugh."

 Shit.

"I can make anything funny."

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Just curious, but after reading that did you get any impressions on the narrator/persona?  I’m wondering if I put a gender on the narrator automatically.  Any ideas on who was the guy talking?  Overeager School councellor?  Panhandler on the street? Kidnapper? Clown? I didn’t really have anyone in mind particularly, this came about after a What’s In Bad Taste discussion in class, hearing complaints about school councilors and hearing my friend’s kid sister’s Muppet CD.