We’re screwed! Completely and utterly screwed!
Sorry. That’s a little rude of me. Come in and sit. Here’s some coffee and a piece of cake.
Yes, I was on a diet, but that’s done. No reason to diet when we’re screwed!
“How are we screwed?”
The Viking did it! You would think he would have known better considering Viking Gods are a little more interactive than the regular run-of-the-mill Gods.
What am I talking about? I’m talking about The Viking challenging the Gods. It started with him telling me that his friend Barney hit an elk on the highway the other day, and his truck is a write-off. And if The Viking had stopped there we would be fine. But he didn’t. He carried his thought just that one step further and screwed us!
He said, “That’s so weird because we spend way more time on the highways than Barney and we’ve never hit anything.”
Half way through that sentence I started waving my hands at him, “DON’T SAY IT!!” But he just kept talking! Even the cat looked horrified!
Well, normally I’m not superstitious. I have a black cat and I walk under ladders all the time and I’ve never thrown salt over my shoulder, but this is different. This was a direct challenge to the Gods. Right now, Odin and the gang are laughing their asses off?! The Norns have just changed the threads of our fate.”
Of course I believe that! The better question is “Who doesn’t?” That’s why I never count my chickens before they hatch and I always knock on wood. The worst part is that we don’t know when or how retribution will arrive. Maybe they’ll just throw an elk in front of us next time we hit the road or maybe it will be a Mack truck. The Gods can be vindictive that way.
I put some flowers, grains and a couple of apples on the back step as a form of appeasement but I don’t think the Gods were interested. It didn’t look like they even passed by. I dumped a beer on the lawn – that was the closest thing to mead I could find – and tossed a chunk of my hair out there, too, for good measure. I’m not feeling very un-cursed though.
Oh! Hey! You’re not a virgin are you? Because I think if I could find a virgin…….
Okay, okay! I was only joking. Mostly. Besides there isn’t a volcano within a 1000 miles of here.
So that just leaves us with a blood offering. The Gods are probably hoping for a bull or a goat but the best I can do is a chicken from Safeway. I wonder if I could get the butcher to keep the blood from one chicken and a heart? They wouldn’t think that’s weird, right? I can’t be the first person to ask. And while I’m thinking about it, why am I the one doing all the appeasing work around here? I’m not the offensive one!
If the chicken doesn’t work, then the only thing left is to sacrifice The Viking himself. Hopefully the Gods will accept just some of his blood. He is very useful around here and I would miss him terribly if I had to give all of him to the Gods. According to my research though, they might be appeased with just a cup of blood and some mead.
If this works, maybe, just maybe, we might not be as screwed as I think we are. And I hope he learns the lesson that he can’t go around, willy-nilly, challenging the Gods and think he can get away with it.
Thanks to Part Time Monster for hosting Weekend Coffee Share