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Story From Dialogue Overheard (Wrongly?) at Nearby Richard J. Hansen Park


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"Steven, yous may be from out by the out-there Free Pacific, but the only things I surfs upons is the regional park'ses lake'ses mechanical surfing pool. and a rocket," Chauncey said, his fingers on the outdoors iPod boombox ready to play. The song he has prepared to play was "Surfing on a Rocket." The mechanical surfing pool either does not exist, or is a gross exaggeration.

"Yes Chauncey," Steven said, his soapbubbly finger crowding the supersoaker's trigger, "but that jalapeeno from earlier tonight was not a jalapeeno. It was a monarch chrysalis." He put the gun down and they laughed nervously.