In which I hit 'random' on Wikipedia a few times until I get a location.

[monkeytailed]

SCENE: The Central Expressway in Dallas, Texas. (This is why you guys should stop me.)

The sun hung low to the west, looking like someone threw a bright red tomato at the horizon and it stuck. It's hot, but not quite oppressively so. It's merely unpleasantly hot, unless someone had a taste for hot weather in which case it was likely delightful.

There's also gridlock: apparently there was a traffic accident further to the north. (Great.) You won't be going anywhere for a while.


Also, because RNG prompts can help break the ice:

1) The bus you're on was part of the accident. Due to police procedures you're now stuck waiting for Dallas' mass transit company to send in a second bus. In the meantime you're just standing on an awkward shoulder just off of the freeway, watching cars go by and wishing you were them. It's pretty boring, yo.

2) Your bus is stuck in the middle of traffic and you're not going anywhere. Also, if you're a reader you just finished the last chapter of your book. Dammit. When it rains, it pours.

3) You're stuck taking care of something small and whiny while...being stuck in traffic. A puppy. A baby. Baby Mario. Whatever. Fortunately you're not the only person who gets to suffer!

4) SUDDEN. POLICE. CHASE.

5) '...and that was when your neighbor turned to you and you realized that they were looking kind of sick.'

6) Your vehicle is downwind of cows and...yeah, you can kind of smell them.

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[chemistryinmotion]

[Wally stares at the kid in front of him, who actually doesn't look that much younger than he is. He looks... weirdly familiar, like he could be related or something. Maybe a cousin he never knew existed...]

Not supposed to be this young? [He groans and rolls his eyes.] Are you from the future or something? I mean, I just ran into you at at least two-hundred miles an hour and you're totally fine, which means you're either a speedster or some sort of meta-human, but I'm pretty sure I know all the speedsters, well, ever, so that can only mean you're from the future or there's something really weird going on here.

[impulsive]

Oh, I'm totally from the future!

[Wait a sec...

He wasn't supposed to tell anyone, was he?? Something about preserving the timestream and "preventing chaos" and blah blah blah, Bart tuned the rest of that ridiculously long lecture out a long time ago.

What should he do now?? CRAPPY EXCUSE IS A-GO:]

I mean, I'm pretending to be from the future!! [Bart, who are you trying to fool.] Uncle Max said it was best if I uh... if I told everyone I was from the... 31st century?