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Cake day: April 23rd, 2024

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  • Pretty soon we won’t need humans at all! Well I say down with the machines! I say we bring back gas station attendants.

    I for one would like my battery swap to be carried out by a high school dropout of dubious sobriety. You just pull in, wait awkwardly making angry furtive eye contact with the attendant. You can’t tell whether he’s angry, or his face graffiti just makes him appear so. Probably both. He eventually ambles over and preforms the swap. He wipes your windshield in the hopes of a tip. Leaving grimy streaks behind, an apt metaphor for his life past or present. You hand over a fiver over out of guilt more than any appreciation of a service rendered. You pull out.

    Done in 30 minutes. It’s the American way.









  • MintyFresh@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHowling retriever
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    Man if you ever get the chance to see a wolf irl take it! At first you think it’s a husky, but as it comes out of the woods into the clearing you can see it’s the size of it, the size of the jaw. Built for snapping tibias. A predator’s gaze falls upon you. And you realize it’s definitely not a dog. All those half remembered, ancient tales of wolves suddenly being made truth. Whom will be hunter, and who will be hunted. You crouch and grasp at the forest floor. A rock, a stick, anything. It turns to go and so do you, realizing too late it’s buddy was in the woods to your back. It stops, looks over it’s shoulder once more, and asks for about tree fiddy.