yesterday, i was at mcdonalds with little bro, waiting in line to buy a dairy milk mcflurry, when i felt a tap on my shoulder. i turned around and saw a 15 year old girl, looking at me in disgust.
“is there a problem?” i asked, with no idea what was wrong.
the girl raised a finger slowly, like she was about to point out the murderer in a police lineup, and sneered, “is that a jared keyring?”
i blinked but then remembered that i had a jared kleinman keyring on my backpack.
this is when the girl. flipped. the fuck. out. she began waving her arms and ranting about how jared was abusive and homophobic, and how that made me those things too, and she said a lot of other stuff that whirled past so fast that i struggled to keep up. by the time she took her first breath, people were staring, and a crowd gathered as she sucked in air for a second time, face blotched a reddish purple. tens of people were watching but she still had the nerve to wig out to a total stranger. i couldn’t get a word in edgewise, and i was about to go up to the counter when she grabbed by backpack.
“what’s your problem, you brutish ignoramus?” i asked, fearing for my life.
then an elderly gentleman who couldn’t have been younger than seventy stepped out of the ring of onlookers around us. he lifted his hand and gave his top hat a little twitch.
“excuse me,” he said. “but does your mother know how you treat total strangers?”
the girl rolled her eyes and scoffed, “my mother would agree with me.”
“oh really?” the man jerked up his chin. “can you call her?”
so the girl phoned up her mother and was so confident that she put her on speaker, and she started to explain dear evan hansen to her mother but then her mother butted in to say, “and you abused this stranger because of that?”
IT TURNED OUT THAT THE MOTHER NOT ONLY HAD GONE TO SEE THE OBC OF DEH, BUT SHE RAN A FANBLOG FOR IT WITH THOUSANDS OF FOLLOWERS. everyone in the room got to hear her mother tell her off for abusing and gaslighting a total stranger in public. the mother mentioned how jared is the most cosplayed character and how jared is the best character, and how her daughter is old enough to tell the difference between fiction and reality, and all the daughter could do was hang her head in shame.
i thought it couldn’t get any better until the mother dealt the finishing blow.
“when you get home, we’re getting rid of all of your dear evan hansen stuff, as you clearly can’t appreciate the franchise.”
the girl ran out of mcdonalds with great fanfare, and when i arrived at the counter, i was given a free chocolate milkshake.
bonus: the mother phoned me this afternoon and apologised, and she told me that she made her daughter get rid of all her deh merchandise and give it away to charity. she also made her delete her tumblr, but not before posting on her daughter’s main blog, her art blog, her kinblog, her artblog AND her anti blog about how immature her daughter was.
so yeah, this was an interesting weekend lol.