| The Night Robert slips out. -
11-19-2005, 10:40 PM
Robert returns from the mens room to sit at his usual bar stool, but there is a commotion outside. Robert turns his head to the bar room door, eyes wide in curiosity, and spots the ugliest woman he has ever laid eyes upon! Or is it a man? Robert is confused but is certain that he must hide from this hideous creature. Robert adeptly leaps to the corner of the long bar so quickly he seemingly leaves his shadow hovering over the now empty bar stool.
"You Bastard!", Robert hears as he watches this ugly lady (man?) stumble in on 3 inch heels, laddered fishnets, cheap plastic earrings. Robert realizes that it is Mike 5 who has donned Mrs Potato Head, and can barely control is laughter. Robert thinks, "Finally somebody choose that last remaining avatar". Robert suppresses an urge to laugh out loud. Mike 5 goes a bit crazy and the bartender has to throw Mrs. Potato Head out into the street. Robert starts to step out from the corner to shake hands with the bartenders and to Congr.... BOOM! Robert's eyes focus on the bar room floor and he gasps, "The bartender has passed out? This is unusual". Then Robert hears a faint sobbing from the mud outside and then a chill runs up his spin. A chill like none other before. Mice can be heard scampering off to their nests. The chill in the air was palpable.
The whining outside stopped. Robert steps back a little farther into the shadows, not knowing what would happen next. Robert's mind is whirling, "What that? The bartender is standing up? What is he going to do?" The bartender suddenly leans back, opens his mouth, and gushes a vomit stream a full seven feet across the room to the shadows where Robert is hiding. But Robert is unnoticed by the bartender who is somehow different now. Roberts heart is beating faster now. No. Not faster, but louder. Thump. Thump. Thump. While the bartender was cleaning the mess Robert kept to the shadows and slowly made his way to the door where he quietly slipped outside to a strange stillness.
Robert was able to leave the pub but something, maybe several things, had changed. "I'm going on a TOE Quest!"
Last edited by Robert : 11-20-2005 at 08:42 PM.
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