the car alarm story

so we were up in cape vince, me and darius at a friend's bar, right? and there's this french festival going on that weekend, fireworks going off, and people wandering the streets, drinking, right? and we're outside of this bar, catching up with each other since we'd last seen each other some couple hours earlier, when all of the sudden a car parked on the street starts squealing beeping piercing your ears, buzzing alarming alerting everyone, on the street, standing outside the bar smoking, walking down the street. and i say, "oh just great, you know, whenever i here one of those things it makes me want to steal that car."

and dar says, "you should."

but i don't really have the nerve. i just think it's funny to say that the alarm actually has its opposite from intended effect. so what the hell, the alarm is still going on now for what seems like a long time, a too long time, like longer than most people's car alarms that you hear, i dunno, maybe you've heard some pretty long ones in your life but the point is that this one is going on for a long time now, and it's just as annoying as any other car alarm you've ever heard. maybe more.

so when the alarm finally shuts off, i shout out a long "woooo!" sound, drawing it out for a long time (almost imitating some kind of alarm noise) the way that i would at a good performance, like something that really rocks, right? and spontaneously everyone starts cheering and clapping, in celebration that the car alarm had stopped sounding.

i turned to darius and said, "have you ever seen that before?"
and he says, "no. no, i don't think so."