I was pleased to see that the porno store had
a wide range of selections, from weird fetishes to religious triple x priest on
priest, nun on nun, nun on priest, bishop on priest and nun, priest on cardinal
while being watched by a pope who was dry humping a steeple. I was even happier to see that they didn’t
carry priest, nun, bishop, cardinal, or pope on altar boy videos. It almost made me forget that I was
assaulted by a priest and a nun. Of course, I was twenty-eight and dressed as
an altar boy and it was a Halloween party thrown by an atheist hate group. Laura Lee and I were on the same page in our
loathing of Halloween, although she also despised Christmas, Easter, New
Year’s, July 4th, Mother’s day, Father’s day,
Valentine’s day, Martin Luther King’s birthday, Lincoln’s birthday, as well as
Presidents day, Memorial day, Bastille day and everyone’s birthday. She especially despised the anniversary of
Eisenhower's niece’s friend’s Bar Mitzvah.
She did however like March 5th
when it fell on the first or third Tuesday in June (at least that’s what she
had tattooed on the bottom of each foot ).
We decided to make home base on the third
floor near where the actual lab was.
They hadn’t found any zombies, which seemed odd, so we kept a sharp
look-out. We did find one zombie, a
former doctor who in his haste must have sewn his shirt tail in the stomach of
a chimpanzee. The chimp was alive and
pulling the zombie around the operating table.
The zombie would lunge for us, then get pulled away by the monkey, who
he would chase. If zombie-hood had not
gone viral, the video we were taking certainly would. Before shooting the zombie doctor we took
still photos we’d hoped to make into post cards.
It took me five trips, three of them with two
other guys to get all the porn up to the fourth floor, which didn’t have any
zombies either, but had lots of screens we could hook the DVD players up to and
doors we could lock from the inside.
I had to get back to saving the world, so I
set a ten video limit, five if I found myself pausing and replaying
sections. When I got back to the fourth
floor, I was satiated, hungry and for obvious reasons Laura Lee didn’t turn me
on, and Mander was almost lookable.
I wandered into the lab, searching for the
cafeteria. Dr. Bliffover, with the help of a few of the Times’ workers had
strapped Klaus to an operating table and were running tubes and electrodes to
both his arms. I asked the doc what he
was doing and he told me in layman’s words.
“I don’t know.”
“What do you mean you don’t know? What do you
have going into his veins?”
“That’s what I’m trying to find out.” Dr.
Bliffover said as if I should have known.
“It’s either one of two types drugs, one will make him sleepy and the
other will make him tell us anything we want to know. If you have any questions feel free to
ask. He had a picture of his wife in his
wallet and she was smoking hot so I have few personal questions.”
“Is that ethical?” I asked.
“What do ethics have to do with it? I’m a
doctor. I heal the sick. Okay, sometimes
I make mistakes and kill them. Like the
time I gave a woman a lobotomy instead of tracheotomy, or was it a
hysterectomy, although it may have been a colonoscopy. She, like Mander, although not in her class,
was a hideous creature. It was tracheotomy, I remember I gave her a hickey or a
yeast infection to mark the spot. What
does it matter that the woman died and I was out a ball point pen?” Dr.
Bliffover stopped and checked his own pulse.
“I’m alive! I’m alive! Sorry, I’m
a big Gene Wilder and I love saying that.” He sighed. “It’s something I could
never say after working on a patient.
I’m pretty sure it was me who likes Mr. Wilder. I’ll have to ask myself later in private.”
“Are
you sure you’re a doctor?” I asked sarcastically, but as the words came out I
dreaded what his response might be, good thing he started to hyperventilate
while he was crying.
Before he could recover enough to answer,
Laura Lee, Skim Milk, Jo, Maria and Shrimp walked into the room asking if I had
found any American Idol DVD’s.
“No, it was a porno store, all they had was
American Oral, or American anal, or Dancing in the Stirrups–”
Laura Lee interrupted, “Sorry, I forgot you
were, over sexed, insensitive, and perverted enough not to like reality shows.”
I didn’t have answer for her so I started to
sing the theme song to the “Courtship of Eddie’s Father,” in the original
language it wasn’t written in at the
time.
When the zombie half of Klaus started to
roar, everyone turned thinking he was trying to sing along. In fact Dr. Bliffover had started to play the
air guitar and Jo had begun to clap to the rhythm (I found out later this was a
group of avid clappers). It wasn’t until
the zombie roar got too loud did they stop clapping and started sporadic
skipping.
“I think Klaus’ zombie half is reacting to
whatever the hell I put into his veins.
I suppose I should find out, huh?”
Klaus’s zombie half was growing more
irritated. Dr. Bliffover, who couldn’t find his glasses asked Laura Lee to read
the label on the solution that was attached to his IV.
“I think it says Lemon Margarita mix but I
could be mistaken since I have a learning disorder and can only read labels at
a second grade level,” Laura Lee said through a blush that was egged on by
embarrassment.
I wanted to make fun of her, but I knew this
wasn’t the time, so instead I just called her a dumb bitch.
Laura Lee must not have been used to such wit
because she didn’t react badly or insult me back. Sure hitting me a chair could be interpreted
as a negative reaction, but I chose to see the silver lining in getting my nose
broken in three places. The swelling
that spread across my face made up for not having check bones.
The doc never found his glasses, but finally
remembered that he didn’t need them to read.
According to him the solution he gave Klaus was either a mild sedative
or speed, mixed with an out-of-date histamine.
The more he gave Klaus the angrier the zombie got, the reason became
obvious – the zombie half was getting hives and since his zombie hand was
strapped and partially eaten off he couldn’t scratch himself.
Must have had mighty big feet
ReplyDeleteLarge footsteps to follow in whatever that means. I'm in LA, getting ready to fly back east, so I can't think,
DeletePriest on cardinal???? I draw the line on animal molestation!
ReplyDeleteI would also. But in the way they are all animals.
DeleteUnless its pigeons. I hate pigeons.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind pigeons, if they're not above me.
Deletei bet you will make a killing on those postcards....what does ethics have to do with medicine...ha...i wonder at times....its not like he is human anyway, well only partly....imagining splinters off that steeple...oh the horror....
ReplyDeleteYes, the splinters on the steeple would be a true horror. And medicine no longer has anything to do with ethics. I shouldn't say that my doctor happens to be old school.
DeleteWhat language was that
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what language I speak any more or what anyone speaks. My hearing is almost as bad as my spelling.
DeleteA monkey and a zombie Dr. Hmmmmm..... Is sewing your shirt tail in a monkey animal cruelity?
ReplyDeleteI think it depends on the quality of the shirt.
DeleteAll in all, it sounds like it was a good time for you. I mean, you made it to home base on the third floor lab. Impressive!
ReplyDeletexoRobyn
I've never had so much fun in my life assuming that I'm still alive.
DeleteHeck of a slip or two for the Dr., huh? Sounds like some re-training could be in order. ;)
ReplyDeleteYeah, he needs to go all the way back to Kindergarten.
DeleteJust keep the spirit all through the year! ho ho ho
ReplyDeleteFirst I have to find the spirit but once I do, I promise to keep it.
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