How to squick out an entire room of kids and adults in 30 seconds...

[msfledermaus]

More fun with random strangers today: There was a tour with middle-school kids, and one of them bragged that he could stab through the Samurai armor we have on display at the Mines. After a way-too-detailed description of how he would "stab the guy int he chest and then go through the facemask with a side-knife," the very nice guide told him, 'Ummm, he would be up on a horse." "That's okay,I'd just kill the horse first, then go kill that Samurai guy!" And everybody in the room started backing away from the kid. "Hey, I got a question about these swords over here! What's so special about them?" The guide VERY firmly led the group to the nice, mellow Teahouse instead...And I could barely breathe from stifling horrified, hillarible laughter...

I felt a little bad for the kid--I remember being a very smart-assy 12 year old myself, just full of knowledge to inflict upon the world. But...wow. Just, wow...If I hear about this kid 5 years from now in a shooting spree of some kind, I'm going to feel so awful that I laughed about him today...

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_contingent_/]

Meh, I was that kid, and was both deserving of the chuckle and totally harmless. The scary kid was sitting in the back with no expression thinking about how to kill the kid you were laughing at.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

That's true, the really scary kids didn't like to advertise. It was always the know-it-all kids like us who got all the attention...