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No Hope for Gomez! No Hope for Gomez! by Graham Parke
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“Instead of heading for a big mental breakdown, I decided to have a small breakdown every Tuesday evening.”
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“Mathematicians finally developed a financial model to accurately compare apples and oranges. Any two kinds of fruit can be compared, although guavas still cause minor rounding errors.”
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“The stalker, meanwhile, stepped into the road. Didn’t even check for traffic. There wasn’t any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker.”
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“I shouted the perfect words to scare him off. It was just the delivery (and only the delivery) that made me sound like a twelve-year-old girl with pee running down her leg.
I felt dirty and stupid.”
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“We played for about half an hour before I realized we were actually playing two different games. What I’d thought of as ludo was actually a game called gin rummy, and what Warren was playing seemed to be a mixture of craps and table tennis. Once we started playing by one consistent set of rules, though, the fun was really over.”
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“In all these years, I’ve never seen you smile so often. Are you mentally ill?”
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“You’re stuck with yourself for the rest of your life, and now you know, beyond a doubt, that you’re an asshole.”
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“Gravity has a slightly stronger hold on me than it does on other people. I’m sure of it. It pulls on me a little harder during the day, and really tugs away at me first thing in the morning. It’s freaky.”
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“She’s funny and intelligent, well-mannered and clean, and her smile is exceedingly cute. Also, she has big tits.”
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“It felt a bit like French kissing an old lady; all the right moves, but in totally the wrong places.”
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“I wasn’t going to have my pressure points fondled unexpectedly.”
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“His gums stopped bleeding and his skin cleared up.”
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“Reputable companies don’t get their test subjects through ads in gaming magazines,”
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“I’d urge you to stay away from any and all martial arts practitioners for the time being.”
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“what tipped me off was the pink nighty I was wearing and the abundance of flowers decorating my room.”
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“what was it they called you? It’s on the tip of my tongue. It was something to do with cats and large amounts of body fat…”
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“What was wrong with people these days? Couldn’t a guy have a few beers to drown a personal problem without getting caught up in a makeshift intervention?”
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“I wore an elaborate disguise that made me look like a caterer from a rivaling company.”
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“I’d mistakenly shown myself to be the kind of guy (test subject) who stood out in her garden wondering about her underwear.”
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“I must’ve been stone-cold sexy this whole time without even realizing.”
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“why hadn’t all these women tried to jump me?”
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“Then I wondered, briefly, where one might obtain a prosthetic Adam’s apple, and what its primary use would be.”
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“Women! Who knew how their minds worked?”
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“Toyed with the idea of letting it go to voicemail, then remembered the sick messages the phone-sex salesman had been leaving me,”
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“Effectively feeling himself dry out and expire over a period of days.”
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“calculator (with reverse Polish notation),”
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“made me sound like a twelve-year-old girl with pee running down her leg.”
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“I said, “Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing. I’m a stalker.”
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“I knew I should’ve started stalking her first! Damn my not-so-devious brain. When would I learn that women don’t go for nice guys?”
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“what a phone-sex salesman would be selling me exactly.”
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