Narrator - "In day to day life, there are two separate yet equally important groups: the awesome, who make Dena laugh uncontrollably, and the should-be super-villains, who puzzle her to death. These are their stories....." (Dah, dah)..
(Cue police sirens, cut to scene inside a biohazard lab, shit has apparently gone bad, broken glass every where and the chalk outline of a Petri dish is on the counter)
First Investigator - "Apparently they were swallowed."
Second Investigator - "But who would knowingly swallow mutated spores?"
First Investigator - "Someone who's waiting in awe for a scientific discovery."
(Hot blonde lady investigator enters, plastic bag full of green glowing goo in hand)
Blondie - "Hey guys, you'll wanna have a look at this! Apparently some allergins got into the mix. He's gone mad!"
First Investigator - "How do you know it's a 'He'?"
Blondie - "Because he left his computer on 'Kitten wearing a tiny hat'. Only men are that twisted to enjoy that shit." (Dah Dah)
(End Scene)
But in all seriousness, I have no idea how my buddy Brent is not a super-villain yet. The previous story happened to him one day in the lab and it has all the making of a comic book super-villain.
He works in a lab where they develop new bacteria that's used in innoculents for crop production.
The project he was working on was one where he developed mutated microbes of some sort.
First element - working with mutants - check
They had to be kept under UV light to stop them from growing excessively.
Second element - working in the dark - check
Brent is allergic to penicillin, which is what they were working on.
Third element - human aversion to product produced - check
Oh, and did I mention there was SCIENCE! involved.
Forth element - SCIENCE! - check
Have you ever met Brent. He's semi-crazy, tall and skinny, semi-crazy and way to passionate about microbes and YouTube.
Fifth element - Crazy passionate about his work - check
He was looking at the microbes, in the dark, under UV light and couldn't get a clear look at the medium so he put the dish above his face to get a better perspective.
Sixth element - Lab accident in the making - check
He had his mouth open, prepared for scientific discovery, when he tipped the dish, and the microbes slipped into his open mouth......all this happening in the dark.
Seventh element - Human ingestion of mutated microbes in a darkened lab - Ding! Ding! Ding!
Super-Villain in the MAKING!!!
Now, life would be way more interesting if he actually did start mutating on the spot, mostly because Brent is allergic to penicillin too. But he didn't. Sad face. Not that I want my friends to turn into super-villains...or super-hero, which seems a little more likely because it wasn't premeditated, but only an accident (heroes are more often born out of accidents, super-villains are born of pre-meditation)....but knowing that the actual comic book stories really aren't that far from real life. Or, at least the real life of my friends. Who are awesome, because their real life resembles a comic book.
In all honesty, Brent would make a better super-villain than a super-hero. He's too bitter and angry to be a hero. :P
okay so funny story,
ReplyDeleteI walked into the staff room to overhear one of my colleagues telling a story very similar to this. To which I responded my friend was just telling me the exact story about a friend of hers.
The colleague went "Brent Laroque? He's my brother!"
To which we both responded "hmm...small world" and had a good laugh.
Weird...