Justin’s head whipped around to the sound of my
voice, causing his body to sway with the sudden
movement. As soon as he spotted me parked in the
drive-through a nasty smirk bloomed across his face.
In a moment of sublime inspiration, Justin dropped
his pants with a show of lily-white butt cheeks. He
obviously hadn’t seen me recording with my cell
phone.
Tommy noticed me too.
McAss burger Mikey?”
“How about a double
He loves to call me Mikey. He knows I hate it. No
one but Tommy calls me Mikey.
The girl delivering my cheeseburger held her hand
over her mouth to cover her braces as she giggled and
snarfed at the sight of Justin’s naked rump shaking
back and forth while he taunted, “It’s a full moon
tonight Mikey. Hope you enjoy the view!”
Perfect. Now Justin’s calling me Mikey. God I hate
that name.
“It’s Michael, asshole! And thanks for the killer
video. Goin’ straight to Facebook.” I held my cell
phone out the window for him.
Justin looked back over his shoulder in surprise,
attempting to pull up his pants at the same time. The
knee-jerk reaction caused him to lose his delicate
balance atop the apex of the plastic airplane. He fell
onto his right side, and slithered down the side of the
playcenter. His hands shot out across the smooth
surface, clawing, seeking a grip. There was nothing to
grab.
I watched him slide inexorably down the outside of
the playcenter, pants and underwear still down around
his thighs. He tried rolling into position for a feetfirst landing. The maneuver would’ve worked if not
for the fence being so close to the playcenter. The
bright yellow, powder-coated aluminum fence that
had aided his climb to the top now blocked his
landing on the way down.
Justin’s momentum came to an abrupt halt as he hit
the top of the fence ass first.
I cringed and almost ruined the shot. “That’s gotta
hurt.”
Justin’s blood-curdling scream of agony made my skin
crawl. He sat there, squealing like a stuck pig. The
top section of fence tubing had impaled him where
the sun don’t shine. Pegged in the holiest of holies,
he had two inches of aluminum post going in through
the out door.
“Oh my god this is insane!”
I saved the ninety-three second video clip of Justin on
my smart phone and posted it directly to my
Facebook timeline. I had a momentary twinge of
conscience. I mean, he was still crying, and Tommy
was trying to climb the fence to help him. It looked
really painful.
“I can always delete it later …”
I was gonna call for help, but Tommy already had his
phone out as Justin yelled in his face, “Call 911!”
I only had a few minutes to get to work. As I drove
off, I thought about taking that video down. I
probably should have. But it only took fifteen
minutes for my video clip to find its way to over 200
students at Moses Lake High School, shared over and
over to dozens of Facebook profiles. My first ever
viral video.
I guess life happens to Justin Shelby too.
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