CHICKEN SOFT TACO STORY

AS TOLD BY SID

here's the deal. sid is fond of chicken soft tacos. he freely admits it. he likes them even though they have been sitting there for 10 minutes and are so wet that it spills stuff on you. even so, sid enjoys this delicacy from taco bell at UH. so one day sid is in the mood for some taco bell chicken soft taco, and so sid goes ahead and buys 2. so there sid is at high noon, and he decided that, being a manly man full of testosterone, that the manly thing to do when one has two chicken soft tacos is to...go to the club room to check one's email. so this is exactly what sid decides to do.

so sid goes ahead and traverses across the monstrous UH campus, taking the short cut through kuykendall and walked into the club room...and he finds nobody there (he doesn't remember, but its not important).

next to the computer desk, there's this little peninsula desk. not sure why it's there, but sid figures hey this looks like a convenient place to drop my lunch while i check email...i'll have one now and save one for after.

so sid busts out one chicken soft taco and eats it. then he checks his email, and while he's doing that dav and connie wander in at some point. at first twas just dav, then connie came. dav too sees the peninsula and decides that it is an opportune place to put his lunch, so he does so.

at some point dav too decides to eat a chicken soft taco out of his bag, making sid hungry. so sid grabs his bag and eats his final chicken soft taco and then puts his bag down and commences cruizin on the couch and talking. dav, the glutton that he is, keeps eating his chicken soft taco.

sid has some AC (Activities Council, a group that puts on events in Campus Center) to do, so he gets his lazy butt off the couch and decides to leave...on his way out, he notices that he has neglected to toss his garbage, and since we all know that chicken soft taco garbage is rather wet and attracts bugs etc, sid decides to grab a bag and toss it in the garbage outside the room. so sid grabs his bag, and notices that it's pretty squishy and nasty. yuck. so he carries it across the hall and flings it into the trash. then off he goes for AC.

sid returns at approximately 4 p.m. and dav and connie are STILL there with nothing better to do. at this point dav interrogates sid "did you eat my chicken soft taco???"

sid of course is shocked. he knows he bought two chicken soft tacos fair and square and tells dav so. dav is rather skeptical, because he points to the bag that's still sitting on the peninsula.

dav informs sid that he had left one chicken soft taco in the bag while sid was eating, and then when sid left he checked the bag and all that was left in there was rubbish etc...but there was trash in there that indicated the remains of...two chicken soft tacos.

now, sid KNOWS he bought two tacos and only ate two tacos. and he tossed the rubbish in the garbage can. dav knows he bought 2 chicken soft tacos...and there is garbage on the table to prove it. but he only ate one. so where'd the 4th chicken soft taco go?

as you may have guessed by now, sid picked up the wrong bag. he tossed dav's chicken soft taco in the garbage, and the bag sitting on the table was sid's leftover garbage. but there is still the issue of the last chicken soft taco, what would become of it?

and here is where the story takes on epic proportions - dav, in a rather pathetic display that made a mockery of everything graceful and pure, crossed the hall (actually, i guess the crossing the hall part wasn't too badly done) and... REACHED DOWN THE BIG GARBAGE CAN AND PULLED OUT HIS CHICKEN SOFT TACO!!

he justified it by saying that it was still in the bag, and nobody really throws garbage in that trash can anyway. dav then showed that he was even braver than the french (who eat SNAILS) by pulling that chicken soft taco out of the bag and eating it. sid is too cowardly and would never attempt something like THAT

Chicken Soft Taco Story as told by DAVID NINOMIYA

 
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