So Dearl was this 16-yr-old boy from Canada. Had everything a Canadian kid could want. Sweet skateboard, sweet Game Genie, sweet Indian headdress to wear around the mall and whatever. But one thing Dearl didn’t have. He didn’t have no girlfriend. Not like he didn’t try. One time he asked this cute chick Nobastapa to go to the skate park with him. She responded: “I have to wash hair.” Not “I have to wash MY hair.” Just hair in general. Dearl didn’t know what to make of that. So he went to the skate park alone and skated with the same kids as always and they had fun, but Dearl felt lonely. When it got dark that night, him and the other kids stopped skating and spraypainted pictures of asteroids on parked buses. They were good at painting asteroids, like all the crags and whatever. What can I say, it was Canada.
Anyway, Dearl was on the internet one day getting Game Genie codes, which was weird because Game Genie just gives you codes, that’s the whole point, but still, he thought there were codes to put on the codes, and as he was searching on Alta Vista a banner ad came up for CanadaDate.com. Predictably it was a dating site. Not so predictably, when he clicked on it (Dearl always clicked pop-ups, retarded I know), an entire woman came out of the computer and sat on the white computer desk next to him. She was a babe. She was wearing a small red dress. Her hair was tussled and she was eating a handful of blueberries.
“Thanks for clicking,” she said and ate 10 or 12 blueberries (they’re small, whatever). “You can date me if you want.”
“Holy crapdance,” said Dearl. “Are you real?”
“Sort of,” said Blueberry babe. “I’m part human DNA, part Alta Vista logorithm, part your imagination. Want a blueberry?” She extended her slender arm, which smelled like the bathroom at a really fancy restaurant.
Dearl took the blueberry, ate it and then tried to figure what to do.
“Listen,” said Blueberry Babe. “We can either go on a date to the skate park, or you can click again and some other girl will appear, or you can hit me in the face with a board and something fairly unpredictable will happen.”
Dearl thought. Blueberry Babe ate blueberries. Somewhere, someone ordered a cone of vanilla at an ice cream shop. Tick tock tick tock tick tock. Finally, Dearl reached his decision.
“Hand me a board,” he said.
Blueberry babe handed him one and he smacked her across the face, right to left.
As soon as he made contact, the lights in his house went out. In fact the lights in all of Canada went out. And the country was still and speechless for a half a second, and then the lights came back on. Blueberry Babe was no longer in front of Dearl. She had been replaced by a lovely dining room set. Table, four chairs, very handsome set of china. Dearl sighed and put on his Indian headdress.
This I think is a metaphor for life.