Suffering At Speed

"whatuptkhere" (whatuptkhere) 09/24/2017 at 01:26 • Filed to: story, it's been a rough week

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As he pulled up to KFC for the fourth time in the last six days, he began to realise that no, everything was not okay, things would not be okay, and that they likely hadn’t been okay for some time. But the fried chicken lent him strength... of a sort. He slotted back into first and trolled into the drive through.

The car was begging for parts. Four hundred thousand kilometers hadn’t been kind, but hell, it was the cheapest one on the market at the time. Fifty-fifty weight distribution ain’t much to save a man’s laptimes from blown shocks and rotted bushings. The swaybars and coilovers were sitting in boxes, ready to go - sitting on the floor of his now ex-girlfriend’s apartment.

A sofabed might be a prize to a drunk reveller who unexpectedly finds their lodgings in a lounge room, but it’s no way to live. This sports car was now the dailyest of dailies, acting as much as a storage locker as it was a performance vehicle. Empty cans cluttered the footwell while the numbers from the last race meeting peeled like the twenty-seven year old paint in the sun.

Another day, another burger. The car would have to wait. 

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > whatuptkhere 09/24/2017 at 01:35

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since when doesn KFC serve burgers.

Also this is reliable, kinda. Nothing worse than feeling overwhelmed with life, AND not having your only car set up right.

DipodomysDeserti > whatuptkhere 09/24/2017 at 01:49

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People who measure things in kilometers eat at KFC? I guess they have an excuse as they have no idea what real fried chicken should taste like.

Svend > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 09/24/2017 at 01:51

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You’ll probably have a larger burger menu than us in the U.K. but here’s our.

cluelessk > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 09/24/2017 at 01:56

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They got the Big Crunch burger. It’s one of the better fast food chicken burgers.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Svend 09/24/2017 at 02:15

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That’s a chicken sandwich. Not a burger

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > cluelessk 09/24/2017 at 02:16

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But how can it be a burger without HamBURGER?

Svend > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 09/24/2017 at 02:35

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Lol. If the people who make them call it a burger who am I to argue.

shop-teacher > Svend 09/24/2017 at 04:21

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I shall argue!

Svend > shop-teacher 09/24/2017 at 04:22

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You ruddy would, wouldn’t you? Lol.

shop-teacher > Svend 09/24/2017 at 04:24

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Damn skippy I would! :)

Svend > shop-teacher 09/24/2017 at 04:47

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Lol.

whatuptkhere > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 09/24/2017 at 06:54

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We call anything on a hamburger-type bun a burger out this way.

shop-teacher > Svend 09/24/2017 at 08:52

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Hahahaha!

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > DipodomysDeserti 09/24/2017 at 11:40

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Up here in my town in Canadaland we ain’t got no McDick’s, but we gots us a Timmies and a KFC so we’re golden!

whatuptkhere > whatuptkhere 02/27/2018 at 23:39

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shout out to me, this is the cheesiest piece of self-pitying shit you’ve ever written

and I’m including all those punk songs you wrote when you were 18