Fernando is making small
talk with a customer one evening as our hero fills out the rental
slip. As Halloween draws near, the topic of conversation invariably
turns to movies of the horror genre.
“You know what movie's
fucked up?” says the man. “Hostel.”
“Little bit, yeah,”
Fernando says. He's never seen the movie himself, but that's because
he does not find torture porn particularly enthralling. He just hoped
to play along well enough until the point at which this conversation
had run its course and he no longer had to spout bullshit on a
subject with which he had no actual experience.
“I don't know how those
places can be allowed to exist in real life.”
“Which places?”
“Hostels.”
“Well, they provide a
relatively inexpensive place for people traveling about the globe to
sleep.”
“Yeah, but if you stay
in one you'll get tortured.”
“I think you've
confused the word 'hostel' with the phrase 'torture chamber.'”
“No I haven't.”
Can't argue with that.
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