Six Years Ago in The Infinite Art Tournament!
Another trip to the vaults, for two little stories that I had completely forgotten! You probably had too.
I: In the Taqueria.
Two young women at a booth, pierced and tattooed, upbeat and pleasant, each with a small child.
Woman #1 lets her child talk on the cell phone.
Woman: Tell Daddy we're having lunch.
Child: We're havin' lunth.
Woman: Tell him we'll see him later.
Child: See you later!
Woman: Tell him you love him.
Child: I love you!
Woman: Tell him Jesus loves him.
Child: Jesus love you!
After a while, the child joins the other kid at the restaurant's video game, which is one of those boxing games with a joystick and a single button on which adolescent males pretend to beat the shit out of each other. They play with the controls as the moms gather their coats.
Woman: OK, kids, let's go.
Child #2: We're playing a game!
Woman: Well, it's time to go. (sees game) Besides, that's probably not a game I'd want you to be playing anyway.
Pause.
Woman (abstracted, to no one in particular): It's certainly not a game about Jesus.
II. Tailgating
Outside a large football stadium, before the big game. A parade of student protesters go by, carrying signs and chanting. A sour middle-aged couple watches.
Woman: Everybody's got to have their different causes.
Man: Yep.
Woman: They've all got their thing. There's "global warming," there's the environmentalists, there's "climate change".....
Man: Huh.
I sure do wish there was a Jesus boxing game.
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