Creative Problem Solving, Tuesday, period 3

[vdistinctive]

The Danger Shop this week was set up as a go-cart course, complete with complicated turns and loads of tiny little two-seater cars. A set of stands lined the straight away to the finish line, on which were set up a couple tables full of classic comfort food. Eliot stood by the cars, a checkered flag sticking out of his back pocket, and stared resolutely at the ceiling.

"Hey," he said. "We're doing cars this week." He shrugged. "Creatively."

“Smash them together! Smash them into barriers! Jump each other!” Parker paused. “With the cars! Not your bodies. That is Not Happening Here.”

Which didn’t rule it out happening somewhere else, probably.

“Work out your frustration!”

"Or pair up, pick a car, and park it somewhere," Eliot said. He jerked a thumb over his shoulder at a shady little make-out point off to the side. "Work out your frustrations that way."

What? It's what teenage him would've done.

"That's making out," he said. "Kissing. Maybe second base. No nudity in class."

“It’s a safety issue,” Parker said very seriously. “Also, it might be gross. We don’t know. And we don’t wanna know.”

Eliot closed his eyes and winced. "That's not -- we know what -- okay, you know what, just -- drive. Or not. Eat food. Or don't. Whatever."

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Re: DRIVE! (or park)

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

Sometimes?

"Ohhhhh. Well." Parker paused. "Yeah, I have nothing. I have a boyfriend to work all this out on. And I don't know what I'm supposed to tell you guys, except to not get pregnant or arrested."

Re: DRIVE! (or park)

[spin_kick_snap]

"Oooh, I don't--I'm not--I think I'll be okay," Kathy said, flustered. "I don't, ahh, have anyone to park with so it's probably not gonna be a problem?"

Why. Did. She. Speak?

Re: DRIVE! (or park)

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

Parker frowned. Then reached out to very awkwardly pat Kathy's shoulder. "There. There." She frowned. "There's a shop for that in town. In the meantime, try not to wreck a go-kart. Or, you know, do. If it helps."

Re: DRIVE! (or park)

[spin_kick_snap]

That was a strangled sound. Being reminded of the sex shop--specifically, the sex shop owned by a teacher and staffed by a good friend, either of whom could probably be talked into giving her a discount and being discreet--was just not something Kathy was prepared to deal with right now.

"YEAHOKAYTHANKS!" she babbled. "GOODCALLI'MJUSTGONNARACENOW! BYE!"

ABORT! ABORT!