Location Taken: South of Thermopolis, Wyoming
Time Taken: November 2012
Written on a piece of lined paper I recently found hidden deep in my old school things, in handwriting I do not recognize.
1: Do you know it is raining? I am wet.
2: But why would you be wet?
1: Because it is raining.
2: And why would it be raining?
1: Because there is water falling from the sky.
2: But we are inside!
1: I must be imagining it then.
2: Perhaps not. I still haven’t fixed the roof.
1: We have a roof? I hadn’t noticed.
2: There is a little bit over there.
1: Then why are we standing here?
2: Because the living room has no roof. That place with a roof is the bedroom.
1: Have you noticed the sky is lime-green?
2: Hasn’t it always been that way?
1: No. Yesterday it was blue with orange spots.
2: I thought the spots were more of a harvest gold.
1: Orange.
2: Gold.
1: Orange.
2: Fine, whatever.
1: Look, that cloud looks like Elvis.
2: I thought it looked more like Mr. Rogers.
1: It looked like Elvis a minute ago.
2: Say, do you know that chickens are evil?
1: Chickens are evil?
2: Yes, hadn’t you noticed?
1: No, I had not. I have a question. Why is your hair purple?
2: Because orange is too bright.
1: What about green?
2: Green looks too much like the sky. I wouldn’t want to be mistaken for a cloud.
1: But purple is the same color as the grass. Surely you don’t want to be mistaken for grass?
2: And why not?
1: Because if you were grass, everyone would walk all over you.
2: Speaking of grass, why do you wear a grass skirt?
1: Because paper is too thin.
2: Look, the rain is picking up.
1: Watch out for that house floating by.
2: Which house?
1: The one with the screaming people on it.
2: Not the one that just sank?
1: Nope, you don’t have to watch out for that.
2: Say, why are those people waving at us?
1: I don’t know.
As I recall, that was mine. I did a small research thing as a project in 7th or 8th grade about concentration and memory and background noise. I needed a sample of random talking, so I wrote that and we recorded it, I believe. I could be misremembering details, but I remember this.
Given that I don’t recall at all, I’ll go along with your story. I figured it was either something you did or something I collaborated with a classmate on, and given the style of humor, you were more likely. Don’t know how it got amongst my stuff, though.
It was too awesome not to save digitally and share with everyone, though. :3