Kona Stories
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So last night I'm shopping for some groceries at the local whole foods supermarket (yes, whole foods, I don't actually go out and kill cows with my bare hands, who knew), anyways, just before I leave I go to the juice stand in the supermarket and order a large natural juice drink. Mmmm.... tasty.
So I check out and as I'm walking the cart out to my car I happen to look up at this blue minivan coming at me going to pass on my right and I see this kid, probably 16 or 17 or so leaning out the window with his arms out. At first I think it's someone I know, then I hear him say "HEY MOTHER (REALLY BAD WORD)!" trying to scare me, and then quickly leans inside the car laughing at his buddy and they both share a laugh together. I'm sure I had a WTF OMG or something look on my face. Priceless.
Here's the problem, the kid did it far too soon and the minivan was traveling way too slow. So as it's about to pass and they are still laughing I, almost nonchalantly, toss my almost full Natural Fruit Smoothie into the vehicle and it hits him in his chest and explodes inside the car... then, THAT look on HIS face was indeed the most priceless look of the event. Then a funny thing happened in that brief instant before he passed completely so I could no longer see the OMG THIS IS MY MOMS CAR look on his face... his buddy driving the car put the pedal to the metal and sped off like I just through a high explosive device behind their car and they wanted to drive out of the blast radius.
In the millisecond it took for the juice drink to hit the kid it did pass through my mind that the two of them may get out and a fight would break out, but I was really counting on them being a couple of pansies and just driving off, but the opportunity to throw my smoothie into their car was just too good to pass up, I had to do it.
The moral of the story: Never mess with a guy holding a large delicious smoothie.
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^Story about the story above.
I was at an interview 2 years ago maybe and I had that story posted on my portfolio. Dumb I know, so before the interview I commented out the stories section. Well wouldn't ya know 10 minutes into the interview the CEO starts dying laughing. I'm like "uh.....". The dude was viewing my code and reading everything I'd commented out. So he made me, in front of everybody go through and tell the stories in person. I got the job, he said he liked my work and loved a good storyteller. Yay.