Fernando's chilling at the store one slow afternoon watching videos on Youtube. He finds himself singing along to the expository theme tune at one point. Because he wears headphones and is caught up in musical splendor and nostalgia, he misses that a customer enters the store.
He continues with his serenading until he catches a bit of movement out of the corner of his eye. He sees a young woman standing at the counter with an amused look on her face.
“You didn't just see that, okay?” Fernando says, pausing the video and removing his headset.
“See what?” she asks. “I'm not even sure what I was looking at. What is that?” She points at Fernando's computer screen which has frozen upon it the image of a white mallard with a pimping purple fedora.
“That's Darkwing Duck,” Fernando says. He eyes the young lady. “You do know who that is, right?”
“Um, no, actually.”
Fernando produces an exaggerated sigh of consternation. “How old are you?”
“Nineteen.”
“And you don't know who Darkwing Duck is?”
“No.”
“This is the part where I'm supposed to go all old fogey on your ass about your misspent youth.”
“Aren't you only like twenty-five?”
“God, I wish I was twenty-five again. That's like being a young whippersnapper somethingsomething kids these days.” Fernando shakes his fist at an unoffensive guardian spider lurking in one corner. The guardian spider pays him no mind.
The young lady laughs and promises to keep Fernando's embarrassing shenanigans to herself.
Very nice. I haven't thought about Darkwing Duck in ages,a and can't even recall the theme song. But for some odd reason I DO have the "Ducktales" theme song stuck in my head now...
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