Searching the cupboards for a guitar pick at my parent’s house, I came across a coverless pocket notepad that formerly belonged to author You R. Dumb (my 8 year old self). In it, I found quite the compelling story. I don’t think I was high when I wrote this. Images below.
One day a dog ate a bone. The cat got mad so the dog ate the cat. The monkey got mad so the dog ate the monkey. The horse got mad so the dog ate the horse. The frog got mad so the dog ate the frog. The guy got mad so the dog ate the guy. The rabbit got mad so the dog ate the rabbit. The fish got mad so the dog ate the fish. The bear got mad so the dog ate the bear. The donkey got mad so the dog ate the donkey. The panda got mad so the dog ate the panda. The fly got mad so the dog ate the fly. The parrot got mad so the dog ate the parrot. The polar bear got mad so the dog ate the polar bear. The crab got mad so the dog ate the crab. The gingerbread man got mad so the dog ate the gingerbread man. The tree got mad so the dog ate the tree. The ox got mad so the dog ate the ox. The food got mad so the dog ate the food. The floor got mad so the dog ate the floor. The hippopotamus got mad so the dog ate the hippopotamus. The bench got mad so the dog ate the bench. The giant got mad so the dog ate the giant. The piano go mad so the dog ate the piano. The nuclear warhead got mad so the nuclear warhead blew up the giant. The world got mad so the world took all the explosives out of the nuclear warhead. The universe got mad so the universe sent aliens to blow up the earth so the earth blew u—— BOOM! ahhhh!
You are silly, they are silly
The end
Sure, the story is a little hard to follow, but I wasn’t writing for an audience. I was writing because I was bored and didn’t have an iPhone to distract me. My boredom and lack of readily accessible distractions forced me to be creative, even though the results may have been a little bit “extra” creative.
I often wonder what we’d have already discovered about this Universe of ours without all the entertainment distractions we’ve set up to keep us busy from universal discoveries. 🙂
I imagine both our lives would be a lot less creative if we had Angry Birds from Age 1.
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Yes, agreed! I always think back to how Stephen King attributes his writing success to the fact that he didn’t have TV growing up.
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