Hey, Wha’ Happened? - Round I
Sorry this week’s Hottie is running late, but I spent my entire day off sleeping and catching up on sleep. I swear it’ll be up quicker’n you can catch a greased rooster on a hot tin roof, as Gramps used to say. (Gramps’s metaphors often did not make logical sense, but, strangely, they were impactful on us youngsters. Maybe it had something to do with the way his glass eye glistened in the hot Arkansas sun when he told his stories. All that’s beside the point, however.) I know you’re all waiting for the new episode with bated breath, but your breath will just have to remain bated until I get around to writing it.
In the meantime, enjoy a new feature I’m introducing. It’s called Hey, Wha’ Happened?, and it will soon sweep the nation. Here’s how it works: I’ll describe a real-life situation in which something happened, and it’s your job to dream up what happened! In the comments section, of course. Responses can be from a sentence or two to a few paragraphs. It’s all up to you! So get your creative writing caps on (mine is a khaki fedora with a purple ribbon), and get writing! (Please make this work, or else I’ll be forced to retire this AND the MySpace Hottie of the Week!)
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I was driving through my old neighborhood sometime in August, and I passed this filthy music store where my brother used to take drum lessons and where I would go occasionally to look at the guitars. One thing you should know about the store: It’s filthy, but not in a cool, grungy, hey-we’re-so-cool-we-don’t-care-what-this-place-looks-like kind of way. It’s filthy in an eww-we’re-disgusting-and-slovenly-people kind of way. In short, it’s just not rock-n-roll there. So anyway, I was driving by in August, and the sign out front said, “MEMORIAL CONCERT FOR 9/11 HERE.” I’m assuming “HERE” meant the large abandoned lot next to the store, because the store itself was rather small. I didn’t think much of it at the time. It was a nice idea, I guess. But then I drove past the same store a few days ago (this is early October, remember), and the sign had been changed to “9/11 CONCERT CANCELLED.” Clearly the sign had been up for an entire month, and the store was still in business. So why was the concert cancelled? Or, in other words, hey, wha’ happened?