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 You really want to find 
        that treasure, and you don’t know of any other way to get to the Epcot 
        center, so it looks like you’ll have to play a game of "I Spy Inside 
        Dix’s Pants." 
 You spend a few moments mentally preparing yourself for what is sure to 
        be a tremendous, and lifelong trauma. Finally, after spending about five 
        minutes in your happy place, you tell Dix that you’re ready to take a 
        look in his trousers.
 
 "Terrific," he exclaims. "Just give me a moment to whip ‘em out."
 
 You close your eyes and grit your teeth, as you hear a zipper being 
        unzipped. In the corner of your mind, you can barely make out the words, 
        "here they are…"
 
 Well, no time like the present, you think to yourself. You open your 
        eyes, expecting to see the worst.
 
 "What do you think? Can you fix ‘em?"
 
 Dix is holding a pair of pants before you with the zipper down and a 
        good-sized tear in the backside. "Never really been much of a seamstress 
        myself. If you can patch these up, I’ll be more than willing to give you 
        a lift to the Epcot center. Why, I’d even be willing to make you an 
        honorary homeopath!"
 
 Something about the way he said that last part makes you feel 
        uncomfortable. Especially since you’re holding onto his pants. 
        Regardless, you tell him that you can fix his pants, no problem. 
        Although your last attempt at sewing ended with you choking on a bobbin 
        and putting a needle through your thumb, you’re almost positive that 
        this time will be different.
 
         You get started right 
        away. Fortunately for you, you kept that thumb-piercing death needle 
        with you ever since that fateful day, and there’s plenty of loose string 
        coming off of your own crummy clothes. You grab some thread and start 
        trying to thread the needle (of doom). Trying to get the thread through 
        the eye of the needle is hard enough as it is, but it’s even harder now 
        that you’re careening down the highway at breakneck speeds.
 It is then that you realize that Dix is still holding the pants, instead 
        of watching the road. Or holding the steering wheel, for that matter. 
        You casually mention to him that he should get back to driving, and he 
        does so, just in time to swerve into the next lane over to avoid a 
        fast-approaching minivan. Once he composes himself, Dix asks you if you 
        want to get something to eat. You barely hear over the grinding of your 
        own teeth as you prepare your twenty-third attempt to thread the damned 
        needle, but you do manage a nod. This sewing business really takes it 
        out of you.
 
 "Alright, how about McDonald’s? There’s an exit coming up a few miles 
        down… THERE!? Oh crap! Hold on!"
 
 Dix grabs the wheel and turns with all his might in the hopes of making 
        it to the last McDonald’s for at least two miles. You don’t hear his 
        warning because you are too busy celebrating the fact that you have 
        finally threaded the needle that had wronged you so in the past. You are 
        thrown into Dix as he makes the turn, and as soon as he finishes it, he 
        roughly shoves you back, causing you to brace your arm on the window and 
        inadvertently drive the threaded needle through your ear and into your 
        brain. "Damn you needle," you think to yourself. "You wounded me back 
        then, and now you’ve finished the job!" In your last moments, you hear 
        Dix talking to himself:
 
 "Damnit, now I’ll have to find another drifter to fix my trousers."
 
        
        YOU'RE DEAD! SEW WHAT? START OVER!   |