Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Go Ahead, Judge That Book by its Cover!

Out today with the kiddies running errands, and a man pulls up alongside me...covered in tats...on a Harley...with his handle bars a good six inches above his head...smoking a cigarette...wearing the requisite leathers and bowl-shaped motorcycle helmet...with lit-up-eyed skull and cross bones attached to his black leather bumper satchel.

My first inclination was to roll my eyes in disgust...and partially because it was just so stinking CLICHE. But then I thought to myself, "Come on, you...don't you go judging a book by its cover. Who knows? Maybe he's a retired grandpa who tatted himself up in Vietnam, and now he's with BACA (Bikers Against Child Abuse). Maybe, just maybe he's..."

That was as far as I got. You see, right about then he turned and spat on the ground, smoke streaming from his mouth, and I got a good look at the front of his helmet. On it were two things - both revolting to me, and also serving to confirm that if it looks like a prick, acts like a prick, and advertises itself to be a prick, IT MUST BE A PRICK - the first of which was a picture of a hand giving the world the middle finger. Charming.

But the second was putrescence defined, and I quote: "Dead Girls Don't Say No."

I'd tell you to try not to think about that, but since I'm going to walk you through the horrors, just hang on tight.
  1. He's sexually obsessed...and not at all in a good way.
  2. He's apparently okay with necrophilia, defined in its simplest form as "sex with corpses."
  3. He's comfortable raping a woman if she's terrified enough of him to say yes.
  4. He's KILL YOU if you won't have sex with him.

I understand free speech, but if my child were old enough to read that and ask what it meant, I might have to hunt the guy down and take him out in a car "accident."

So, sometimes you CAN judge a book by its cover...and if its cover suggests a chain-smoking, Harley-riding, skull-and-bones-worshipping, ink-covered NECROPHILIAC RAPIST, hey...that's a pretty strong suggestion. Who am I to deny him the judgement he so eagerly seeks?

*Banging Gavel*

By order of the court, that man is a PRICK, and I do hereby sentence him to misery and obscenity for the balance of his chosen life!

*Banging Gavel*

Like I said...if it walks, talks, acts, and advertises...or is that rides? Whatever. Still a prick.