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bloodyrosemccoyHoo, boy. That last kid on the other side of our office wall really didn’t want a shot.
I mean, you usually get to listen to the kids shriek in understandable protest of the process of medical fortification, but this little dude's wails and tearful pleas spoke not just of nervous suspicion and an owie, but worlds of betrayed trust, agony, and terror.
“You know,” Mom said as we listened to the forceful howls of I DON WANNA I DON WANNA, “I used to wonder why that pediatrician always looks so morose.”
“I would too if I made small children cry for a living,” I said.
It strikes me that that'd be a good job for a light bastard Jedi,* a Lex Luthor type who likes to be evil but also has good PR skills. He could make kids cry all day and yet he'd still be hailed as a great guy.**
Hell, maybe I should look into that job! Because after even a little exposure to school's-out spring break at The Local Library And Now Apparently Day Care Center, I want to make a few kids cry, myself.
*A term coined when my brother was explaining to me that his status in Knights of the Old Republic was Light Side, but he was trying to do a few jerk moves anyway just for variety.
**Except by morons like Jenny McCarthy.
I mean, you usually get to listen to the kids shriek in understandable protest of the process of medical fortification, but this little dude's wails and tearful pleas spoke not just of nervous suspicion and an owie, but worlds of betrayed trust, agony, and terror.
“You know,” Mom said as we listened to the forceful howls of I DON WANNA I DON WANNA, “I used to wonder why that pediatrician always looks so morose.”
“I would too if I made small children cry for a living,” I said.
It strikes me that that'd be a good job for a light bastard Jedi,* a Lex Luthor type who likes to be evil but also has good PR skills. He could make kids cry all day and yet he'd still be hailed as a great guy.**
Hell, maybe I should look into that job! Because after even a little exposure to school's-out spring break at The Local Library And Now Apparently Day Care Center, I want to make a few kids cry, myself.
*A term coined when my brother was explaining to me that his status in Knights of the Old Republic was Light Side, but he was trying to do a few jerk moves anyway just for variety.
**Except by morons like Jenny McCarthy.
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Date: 2010-04-06 06:12 pm (UTC)Y'know, one of the things I've always liked about that song is that so many of the things he lists are really petty to be 'evil.' I am evil! I create frequent annoyances! And kick grannies down stairs.
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Date: 2010-04-07 02:30 am (UTC)I like how the song gets more grandiosely nasty as it goes--from candy-stealing to the dagger in your back and the extra turn upon the rack and such. I guess the moral, as it were, is that if you're going to be dedicatedly evil, it does no good to skimp on the small things. They've the very foundation of evil!
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Date: 2010-04-07 03:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-07 05:42 am (UTC)They also chew with their mouths' open. That's why I'm not evil today -- I simply can't stand it. If not for that, my whole life would have been a headlong rush into dangerous hedonism and cruel destruction.
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Date: 2010-04-07 01:44 am (UTC)Such is life, such is life.
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Date: 2010-04-07 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-11 12:50 pm (UTC)Can I watch? >_>
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Date: 2010-04-17 06:16 am (UTC)Granted, small children can be a lot more obnoxious and irrational, so it is a lot more tempting to kick 'em ...
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Date: 2010-04-17 07:36 am (UTC)