4th Gumball - Phone/Action

[connedviakeyboard]

[Well, someone isn't happy now that he's back to normal and away from the effects mint has on him. To say he was embarrassed would be putting it lightly; Benson was out and out ashamed. And he dealt with shame the way he dealt with everything else: by being angry as hell and trying to bottle it up.

Either way? He owed some apologies to people.]

[Phone]

...Look. I know that there were a few people I might've been...uncouth towards, a few days ago. Okay. I guess that's putting it lightly. I was acting like an asshole. And I'm sorry. That's not what I'm usually like. It really, really isn't, and I don't know what came over me. It won't happen again.

[Phone - Filtered to Mordecai]

Yeah, hi.

Let's pretend Valentine's Day didn't happen, alright?

[Action - Outside 507 Ricardo Street]

[If you're going by Ricardo Street today, feel free to notice the man who lives at 507 removing every single potted plant he could find in the house, hell, everything that could conceivably be called vegetable matter, and placing it on the sidewalk. Watch in amazement as he takes out a lighter and proceeds to try and get the plants to catch flame, running back a bit when the fire actually gets started.

He's just going to wait, and watch, as every plant that had previously been in his house burns.]

Comments

[mal_addict]

...Unless they don't sleep at all.

[connedviakeyboard]

Wow. Thanks.

Now I'm probably going to end up staying up all night trying to find out.

[mal_addict]

[Cheerfully] You're welcome!

Remember to carry a baseball bat around, just in case they get antsy about you watching them not-sleep.

[connedviakeyboard]

Eh, I have a tire iron, so I should be okay.

[mal_addict]

What's a tire iron? [What's a TIRE?!]

[connedviakeyboard]

You know. A tire iron. Big metal bar you use to change a flat tire?

[mal_addict]

...No.

What is a tire? And if it isn't supposed to be flat, what shape is it supposed to be?

[connedviakeyboard]

...You know. A tire. Big, round, made out of rubber. There the things on the bottom of cars.

[mal_addict]

This is probably a bad time to mention my world runs on magic and all the technology stuff around here hardly exists at all, isn't it?

[connedviakeyboard]

...Eh. I'm sure I'll hear worse.

You guys have like, carts at least right? Tires are like really big wheels.

[mal_addict]

Yes, we have carts. [Long pause] I see. So I assume these 'cars' are pulled by very large horses?

[connedviakeyboard]

Kind of. They have mechanical engines measured in "horse power". Think of it like they're pulled by a very large, very abstract team of horses.

[mal_addict]

...But the horses aren't real? How does it work? [Welcome to being friends with Maladict, Benson. You have to answer all the questions ever]

[connedviakeyboard]

...Oh. Well. The thing is powered by an engine, which is a mechanical device. I can't really explain to you all the finer details about that though. Not really a mechanic.

[mal_addict]

...Huh. I think I'll have to have a look at one of these car things. Sounds interesting.

[connedviakeyboard]

If you actually screw around with the parts or something, you may want to have someone with you.

Cars can be...kinda dangerous, if you don't really know them.

[mal_addict]

...How? Do they have some sort of spell protecting them?

[connedviakeyboard]

....Most of them probably shouldn't?

It's more a case that every little part, especially for the engine? Is important. And displacing one part could do damage to the car and, well...

The engine is the last thing you wanna damage, with all that could go wrong.

[mal_addict]

And yet people keep these things? Even if the smallest thing can ruin them? That's just goading the Gods, really.

[connedviakeyboard]

That's modern convenience for you.

It's great when they work. But little things can screw them up royally.

[mal_addict]

Doesn't sound very convenient at all.

[connedviakeyboard]

Maybe not.

But it's life.

[mal_addict]

And when has life been known to be convenient?