chocolate milk

The writer's block has somewhat lifted, but this paper is still a more than usually painstaking process. It doesn't help that I feel like I need to prove something to myself by writing it. To sum it up, if I don't get an A, I will probably be pretty sad about life.

Today I was supposed to be watching this short film thing in german, which was on a video tape with a bunch of other short films before it. I watched one of them on my way, and it was pretty much really hilarious. It started off with this group of teenagers in some sort of arcade gathered around a driving game. The guy who's at the wheel is doing a pretty bad job, and they keep on jeering him and he's getting really frustrated and finally he crashes and burns. The friends all laugh and tease him but he clearly takes this game really seriously and he's having none of it, so he storms out of the place in a hot fit of rage. He gets in his nice red german-looking car, slams it into gear, and peals out of the parking lot, muttering to himself in fury things like, "Oh I can't drive, huh?" Soon he is on the autobahn and is speeding along, passing cars, dodging pedestrians, and basically being really bad ass and thereby proving that he can, in fact, drive like a pro. At one point he is behind a big slow truck, and as it is a one lane highway, wisely decides not to pass it. But suddenly the image of his teasing friends' faces enters his mind and before he can think twice about it, he's in the other lane. At precisely this moment another huge semi comes around the bend and our poor hero can do nothing but look horrified and slam on his breaks before being utterly demolished. Cut to the next scene, where he is lying in a hospital bed with all kind of wires and tubes and bandages. His mother and father enter the room and the mother screams and the father looks distraught and everything is very tragic and emotional. Then the camera focuses in on his heart moniter, which beeps a few times before the line goes flat forevermore, and the words "Game Over" appear on the screen.


Let this be a lesson to us all. I for one will never play Cruisin' World again.