
Last night I totally pwind ‘em!
I bask in the glory of my pwin greatness!
I am my pwin Ideal!
I met the Enemy on a battlefield of their pwin choosing. And I took the measure of their toes. In their obliviousness, I counted cups on ‘em. Kinda.
No quarter asked or given. No nickels or dimes either, dammit!
I took no prisoners. I posted no bills.
That is how you pronounce the word pwned, isn’t it? “Pwind”?
The Law was there – I’d say well over a quarter-ton of it – 5 young Porkers-to-be With Guns. Three squad cars worth. One car was a County Mounty, the other two – City. The Boys sat there like mushrooms, sipping their coffees and nibbling their lard sandwiches, oblivious to the great goings-on that took place Right. Under. Their. Snouts.
It was a packed house. The joint was busier ‘n I’ve ever seen it at 3:30 AM, and it was a target-rich environment – let me tell you. We had Emo. We had Goth. We had punk. We had wino – a pair. And the Law, of course.
There was a sprinkling of civilians – scattered here and there – but not what I would call a factor, something that needed to be strategically considered, y’know? Truth be told, I tend to look right through them nowadays. I don’t even see them.
But I get ahead of myself.
I nailed a low-hanging Emo fruit before I even got properly into the place: he made the mistake of holding the door for the limping old man that was me. He was wearing soft-toed cloth no-name deck shoes. Dirty white. No socks, the fool.
Chalk up one left big toe. And the poor fucker apologized to me! for him leaving his toe out there in my way! I mumble *rhubarb* and pass on by.
Pwind.
I get inside and – oh shit – it’s the Knowing waitress. Oh, man….
She doesn’t blink, she doesn’t bat an eye, she just asks, “smoking or non?” like she’d never seen me before.
I start to get a good feeling about things as she indifferently leads me right over next to a table of loud-talking Goths. Perfect targeting! – as one of the G’s gets up – bathroom break – and kind of does the “easy old-timer” dance around me & my cane as he passes. I have a wide Denny’s aisle stance – intentionally. He pats me gently on the back in passing “easy there”, and I squeeze my whoopee a bit. It responds perfectly.
Blat.
Crisp, short, and quiet. Subtle.
And – by god! – the waitress doesn’t twitch! The Goth kinda pauses and blinks and half-smiles – not sure if it was me or her, and then heads on to the toilet.
Pwind!
As I maneuver to sit down I accidentally release my cane so it falls over onto the (occupied) booth seat across the aisle and whacks into the chicks knee over there. I narrowly miss her coffee cup arm (rats!), which is just setting down the cup. A double hit – foiled by luck. But I still get the knee. I *rhubarb* her apologetically and retrieve my cane.
Pwind.
I sit down – squee’ing my whoopee briefly and quietly, to the apparent delight of the knee-chicks boyfriend – who snickers quietly to himself in a rather ungentlemanly manner. How rude!
I note that at this time the Knowing waitress makes a small tactical mistake in her cover persona: she brings me my coffee and big ice-water without me ordering it.
Boys and girls – its mistakes like this that can get you caught and killed by the enemy: moments like this can blow your cover completely. You have to consider every aspect of your actions if you want to be a waitress who Knows. You have to be the waitress.
Its like golf: you have to be the ball.
Fortunately, the Gods smiled upon the poor girl and none of the Goths noticed.
Anyway:
The waitress took my Hammy order, and barely cracked a smile when I winked at her while unrolling my napkin and silverware bundle. Good woman! Stout heart! Marry me!
I noisily dumped the silverware from the napkin onto the table near the table corner, scooting it around a bit – quickly yet casually getting the tip of the fork handle just a bit underneath the spoon arch.
Dropping my napkin, I lean over into the aisle, lose my balance a bit, and firmly slap my hand onto the table corner (and the fork tines) to catch myself – and fork-flip the spoon across the aisle onto the Goth table, where it hits the fart-snicker guys near-empty coke glass – spilling it!
Pwind!!!!!
More apologies, more *rhubarb*. Meanwhile, my cane falls over and narrowly misses the toe of the bathroom-goer Goth (shit!), who has come back by now – refreshed with some dope up his nose. He bends down and returns it.
Pwind.
Things settle down. My Hammy is still not here so I read my newspaper – making a lot of papery foldy-flappy noise.
Then the Goths leave!
Aww. I wasn’t done with them yet. Rats.
I must have allowed my disappointment to show on my face: the Knowing waitress directs the busboy to get that table cleaned up now, even though there were several others elsewhere that needed clearing.
My Hammy arrives while this was going on, so I practice my food drops and – a bit later, when no one was around – I gave my whoopee a good solid squeeze to see if the cops over in the next area could hear it: one did.
The waitress brought some new customers through – smoking civilians – and tried to get them to sit back a few tables behind me (out of the action, if you get my meaning) but to no avail. They wanted the table where my victims were supposed to sit! Double-rats!
Well, that was it.
Oh, sure, I practiced some more food drops and I spun my empty coffee cup between refills a bit, but my heart wasn’t in it anymore.
When I paid my bill she softly said to me, “I tried to seat those people elsewhere!”. I replied, “Ah, well. We take what chance hands us. I got three anyway.”
Ya know what she said? You’re not gonna believe this.
She said, “No. You got four. You forgot about that guy at the door.”
She was watching me before I even got into the place!
That was early this morning – and I still feel good about it now – at about noon.
Ain’t life wonderful! (more…)