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.

Comments

[midget]

If that's how you want to settle things, I'll pass. I have better ways to waste my time.

Besides, I doubt they would go for that. [ Gesture towards the cops.

Seriously, all of this because she was a minor driving a car? Well, okay, so maybe she did freeze the officer who pulled her over, but that was justified.... ]

[robrocop]

[Oh wait, the cops are here.]

There have been odder arrests.

[bratbeyond]

[Thank god. Robin didn't think he could do it on his own!]

So we can do this the easy way... or we can do it the hard way. Your choice.

[robrocop]

And if it's all the same, arm wrestling is at least more fun to watch.

[midget]

If the easy way involves all of you leaving me alone, I suppose I can settle for that.

But I don't mind the hard way. It's only marginally more effort on my part.

[bratbeyond]

... Are you serious?

[He sighs, resigning himself to the inevitable and holding his arm out for arm wrestling:] Come on. Let's just get this over with.

[midget]

[ She'll try not to look too bored as she does this.

Honestly, it's actually kind of amusing.

Kind of. ]

[bratbeyond]

[Eva probably wins, despite Robin's complete and total seriousness over this whole thing.

If he's going to arrest her via arm wrestling, then he's going to try his best, goshdarnit to heck!!

It's just. Harder than he expected.]

[midget]

[ ...Yeah, she probably wins. Because she cheats and is a vampire and also enhances her strength with godmod magic.

But it's okay, she won't rub it in. ]

So was that confidence all a farce? Ha!

[ ....That was a lie. ]

[bratbeyond]

[Eyebrow raise.] I'm not so arrogant that I wouldn't coincide defeat.

You won, fair and square... right?