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Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Paul Mannone seems to always be deserving of a good slapping. Yesterday, I took care of this.
I woke to my phone ringing. After I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes I looked at the caller ID and did not recognize the number. As standard procedure goes, if I don't know the number, I don't answer. No more than 8 seconds after the last ring the person calls again. Same number. This goes on for about 5 minutes as I drift in and out of a sleepy haze. Finally I get agitated enough and answer it. The number was from the Oshkosh Public Library. We all know who works there.
Paul Effing Mannone.
Once I got my grasp on the situation and realize that it is him, I just lost it. He told me that he was calling because I had books over due. $27 in late fees and a possible Lien will be filled against me if I don't return the books within the day. I hang up on him. At some point Paul must have taken lessons in persistence, because he gets an A+ in not letting things go. He called back. I didn't answer. Now was leaving me voice mails. Not dropping the topic at all. This was all interesting because I had no books from the Oshkosh Public Library. I have never been to the Oshkosh Public Library....or even know where it is if I were to try and get there.
The phone calls continued. Then the Instant Messages started to come as well.
I then decided to take action. I got dressed and headed to the car. I didn't know what I was going to do....but I was going to go down to that library and slap that bitch. I called a friend of mine in Oshkosh as I was in route to get directions to the library. As I was on the phone I passed a garage sale that looked appealing. I stopped and looked around. There I found two things that made my plan complete. A few old books. A fly swatter.
I purchased all for about $2.75 and headed on down the road. I pulled up to the library and parked in a spot close to the parking lot exit. I backed into the stall to insure a quick escape.
Into the library I went. Books and fly swatter in hand. I stood outside the office and called Mannone out. He looked surprised as his pathetic little eyes peaked around the corner. "Get out here chico" I said in my best English/Mexican accent. He came walking towards me. I could sense his lack of confidence...that feeling you get sometimes where you know a person isn't going to do a damn thing...and you know that they think you are absolutely crazy. I had the upper hand. He stopped about three feet infront of me. I made my move. With my left hand I threw the books at his stomach...on impact he bent over slightly putting his head within prime distance for a good fly swatter slap. My right hand swung and the sound of a plastic fly swatter hitting pauls left cheek was the sound of justice. The whole library froze...looked at me....I shrugged...then I ran. To the car. To the highway. To Appleton.

4 Comments:

Blogger Paul said...

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2:05 PM  
Blogger Paul said...

haha, little bitch. ha ha.

let me point out some of the problems with your nonsense...

1. "I woke to my phone ringing. After I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes I looked at the caller ID and did not recognize the number. As standard procedure goes, if I don't know the number, I don't answer. No more than 8 seconds after the last ring the person calls again. Same number. This goes on for about 5 minutes as I drift in and out of a sleepy haze. Finally I get agitated enough and answer it. The number was from the Oshkosh Public Library. We all know who works there.
Paul Effing Mannone.
Once I got my grasp on the situation and realize that it is him, I just lost it. He told me that he was calling because I had books over due. $27 in late fees and a possible Lien will be filled against me if I don't return the books within the day. I hang up on him."
I don't call about overdue books.

2. "At some point Paul must have taken lessons in persistence, because he gets an A+ in not letting things go."
No I didn't

3. "I then decided to take action."
No you didn't

4. "I purchased all for about $2.75"
You spent your last $2.75 on that nasty chick on the corner, everyone knows that.

5. Plus it's all lies. Bad lies at that. Whoop.

Dan, I just proved your detachment from logic and foxed you all at once. How's it feel?

2:07 PM  
Blogger drew said...

my last comment says 9:15. that's not true. it's 10:15 here, which means it's 11:15 where you live.

all the timestamping on my internetting has been fucked up since i moved. freecycle, craigs list, hotmail, blogs, everything. WTF?

fuck timestamping. you heard it here first.

i like how your comment thing is a pop up. even though pop ups are evil. in this case it's muy conveniente.

and just b/c i commented twice doesn't mean i'm going to read your blog. so don't get used to this or anything. i just don't want to have to deal with some messy situation later. it's best to let you down nice and easy now.

nice and easy...

9:18 PM  
Blogger drew said...

google earth is discriminatory towards apple users. i was going to like, totally zoom into my apartment, brah, but then it was all like BLAM! not you, dog. no "all i wanna do is a zooma zoom zoom and a boom boom" for you iBook user.

blam-o

9:22 PM  

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