Thursday, November 19, 2009

semi kills aleeex

my friend aleeex is a cautious man. as he tells it, he was cruisin down the freeway in the slow lane. before he knew it, he was staring at the back of a semi's front wheels. the trucker had not seen him and tried to switch lanes, ripping into my friends car! metal and glass exploded into the air around him! aleeex turned his wheel, freeing himself from underneath this juggernaut and found himself driving straight into a wall! he swiftly swung his car to the left and narrowly escaped certain doom! his mangled wreck of a 4 cylinder stumbled to a pitiful crawl and then stopped near an exit. the trucker pulled over a little ways down. for any mere mortal, a collar bone and a brain would have been lost in this ordeal. but aleeex is risen. there is not a scratch on this humble cartoonist of child pornography. that afternoon, he tells me all about it. and just in case i am one day mowed over by a gargantuan cud chewer, i ask, "what was your strategy?" he responds, "it's all in the reflexes."