Mickey Z

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Saturday, February 18, 2006

Fast Eddie wins

Kenny sez: "Mmmenn uhhmmnuh Storytelling Saturday."

Once upon a time…

I’m riding the train with Fast Eddie (it was his birthday yesterday, btw) and he’s busting my balls…trying to impress the pretty girl sitting across from him. I’m about ten feet from them in the small love-seat-looking bench…when the lights go out for a second (like they always do on the subway). This gives me an idea. Eddie makes another funny comment at my expense just as the lights go out for a second time. I leap up and move next to him. The lights come back on and there I am, staring right into his face. Eddie nearly faints...and the pretty girl is laughing at him now.

Fast Eddie got even on another commute home. I’m driving this time…bumper to bumper over the 59th St. Bridge. He keeps pulling my tape out of the cassette player and putting in one of his own. Already moody from the traffic, I warn him: “You do it again and I’m throwing your tape out the fuckin’ window.”

You know he did it again…calling my bluff, I figure. Without as much as one second of hesitation, I grab the tape and toss it out the window into oncoming traffic where it’s instantly crushed under the tires of a passing car.

Eddie is in hysterics…and now I’m getting worried. Yeah, it turns out he had only pretended to switch tapes. He left my tape in the player and that’s the one I’d just tossed to an untimely death.

Fast Eddie wins…