| I inspired this strip. I used to warn people not to fall asleep in my car and thought this to be a dire warning, lest they wake up screaming in horror, as my victim in that prank did.
Today, however, I must abdicate to a much more nefarious prankster. I heard the story just today, and his victim confirms the story as truth. For the purpose of relaying this story, I shall call these two people Rebo and Zooty, with Rebo being the prankster, and Zooty being the victim.
The day was Zooty's 21st Birthday. Rebo took him out drinking. Zooty drank a lot. Rebo was driving. At the end of the night, when Rebo was finally driving Zooty home, Zooty konked out in the passenger seat.
On the route home was a set of railroad tracks. And on this particular night, at this particular time, there was a train on the tracks. For some reason, the train was at a dead stop, just before the intersection with the road. The trains headlights were on, as usual. The engineer was standing outside for some reason.
Rebo drove onto the tracks and stopped directly in the path of the train. He and the engineer exchanged looks. The engineer saw Zooty, smiled and understood. He went back into the train.
Rebo yelled, "ZOOTY! TRAIN!" The well-timed engineer blared the train's horn.
Zooty woke up, saw the train's lights bearing down upon him, heard the horn, sobered up instantly, and literally peed his pants.
I heard this story about three hours ago, and I still can't stop laughing about it. :-D |
