I spent ten years in Pikesville, Leaping. In the 70's, to be precise.
Well, when society inevitably collapses and civilization descends into Road Warrior- style anarchy, I shall form a convoy composed of my friends, family members, and former army buddies and we shall head east.
Using your modest service station as a base of operations, we shall slowly bring order to the East Coast. It will be a brave new age of football padded, AR-wielding warrior poets crewing hillbilly armored mid-sized cars.
We will call this glorious new society Paleo-topia.
I'm in. Be sure to gather medical supplies on the way. Also, no promises, but I have some ideas for creating an army that involves corpses, automatic weapons, and lightning.
I spent ten years in Pikesville, Leaping. In the 70's, to be precise. :-)
Must look a lot different today with the paved roads and electricity and such.
Huh. I was just in Baltimore a couple weeks ago staying with a friend in... Charles Village I think? We should have had a beer.
Had a fun time hanging around the pier (Fells Point?) and checked out the aquarium. And also The Book Thing, which I think every city needs.
Reaper81 wrote:Well, when society inevitably collapses and civilization descends into Road Warrior- style anarchy, I shall form a convoy composed of my friends, family members, and former army buddies and we shall head east.
Using your modest service station as a base of operations, we shall slowly bring order to the East Coast. It will be a brave new age of football padded, AR-wielding warrior poets crewing hillbilly armored mid-sized cars.
We will call this glorious new society Paleo-topia.
I'm in. Be sure to gather medical supplies on the way. Also, no promises, but I have some ideas for creating an army that involves corpses, automatic weapons, and lightning.
EDIT:
FOR THE PALEO-MPEROR!
This idea just keeps getting better.
Please tell me that you have a really good security system.
I get so frustrated with gas stations around here. This city and county only have a couple robberies a year in convenience stores, and they never ever want to prosecute drive-offs, so they all invest in circa-1985 security cameras. There is virtually no usable evidence on them. You can't tell what a shirt said, even in huge writing. You can't tell minor facial features - did that dude have a goatee or did he just need to shave? That may be fine for the gas station, but when people rip off credit cards and then buy (I mean, just as an example ) $700 worth of cigarettes, there is often no way to get any usable evidence off them.
It's all fun and games and profit margin until a clerk gets hurt or killed, and the suspect looks as high res as the Doom marine (circa 1994).
sh*t man, even your employees are bad-ass.
So how many weapons do you have stashed around the station?
Baseball bat, box cutters, various hammers and wrenches, .357mag revolver, 12g pump gun, various kukris, and a 24" chainsaw.
There will be no shenanigans in Paleo's station.
God help you if you ask for the restroom key.
Baseball bat, box cutters, various hammers and wrenches, .357mag revolver, 12g pump gun, various kukris, and a 24" chainsaw.
A chainsaw, he says. I never knew gas station proprietorship was such serious business.
Paleocon wrote:Baseball bat, box cutters, various hammers and wrenches, .357mag revolver, 12g pump gun, various kukris, and a 24" chainsaw.
A chainsaw, he says. I never knew gas station proprietorship was such serious business.
For zombies of course.
The list actually reads like what you would expect to find lying around a gas station in a zombie video game where you are forced to stop and fuel up that cargo van you took from the mall parking lot.
God help you if you forget to return the restroom key.
FTFY
So is your gas station kind of like "The Wire"?
Paleocon wrote:Baseball bat, box cutters, various hammers and wrenches, .357mag revolver, 12g pump gun, various kukris, and a 24" chainsaw.
There will be no shenanigans in Paleo's station.
Anyone else wishing they could see the convenience store scene in Falling Down playing out in Paleo's gas station?
Winner: Tamika. Round 1 - TKO via Rear-Naked Choke.
Nicholaas wrote:Paleocon wrote:Baseball bat, box cutters, various hammers and wrenches, .357mag revolver, 12g pump gun, various kukris, and a 24" chainsaw.
A chainsaw, he says. I never knew gas station proprietorship was such serious business.
For zombies of course.
Sounds like a zombie invasion would be a welcome change against the scum of the earth he's dealing with now.
Good luck Paleo.
Edit: Oh, and no mo-hawk for me... My hair is falling out on top, I'd just be pretty much bald if I shaved down the sides.
Paleo, when the chips are down, I hope we end up on the same side.
As scary as your petrol station sounds to work at I have to say I'm impressed by your self defense teaching skills. I hope your employee isn't too shaken up by these events.
Baseball bat, box cutters, various hammers and wrenches, .357mag revolver, 12g pump gun, various kukris, and a 24" chainsaw.
Paleocon wrote:Baseball bat, box cutters, various hammers and wrenches, .357mag revolver, 12g pump gun, various kukris, and a 24" chainsaw.
It's a petrol station. Those Hollywood explosions, that's last years profit going up in smoke.
There will be a Paleo-topia colony here on my island. A safe haven for those wanting shelter, rice, and mohawks.
Turns out he only hired Koreans and Ghurkas.
I want this to be the basis for an action-comedy movie.
One convenience-store employee would be the son of a decorated war hero from the Gurkha Regiments. The father would be disappointed in his son until he discovers, via a huge action sequence, that their jobs are a lot more similar than he'd ever imagined.
Markly wrote:Paleocon wrote:Baseball bat, box cutters, various hammers and wrenches, .357mag revolver, 12g pump gun, various kukris, and a 24" chainsaw.
There will be no shenanigans in Paleo's station.
Anyone else wishing they could see the convenience store scene in Falling Down playing out in Paleo's gas station?
I was thinking that was going to turn into a Clerks reference.
Meanwhile, I sort of worry about shenanigans that the employees might start. I'm sure Papa Paleo keeps things on a tight leash.
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