In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Trick Questions.” A Pulitzer-winning reporter is writing an in-depth piece — about you. What are the three questions you really hope she doesn’t ask you?
“Dude.”
“Right?”
“Dinosaurs are notorious for having a small brain in proportion to their body size, am I right?”
“No disputing that, Lamont.”
“And humans the opposite, right?”
“Right, but I have some doubts.”
“Me too. How many times have you been human, Dude?”
“I don’t know. At least a dozen.”
“Do you really think you were a LOT smarter than you were as a dinosaur?”
“Depends what you mean by smart. It’s really all about survival and propagating the species and I did fine. Anything else? But OTHER intelligence? Intellect? Dinosaurs didn’t need it. They had raw power. Arrrggggh.”
“You sound like a pirate, Dude.”
“Yeah, I know. I miss the old roars, don’t you? But what about you, Lamont? do you think you have been a lot smarter as a human than as a dinosaur?”
“I know I’m too smart to answer this prompt and give away to the world what I wouldn’t tell a Pulitzer Prize Winning reporter. I might not be prey any more, but I sure as hell know a trap when I see one.”
And the dinosaurs are still amongst us, but I think they call them politicians today. I wish I had a Dude and Lamont to take over this prompt. Today I was completely at a loss.
Stupid prompt the first time… It’s convenient having Dude and Lamont as alter egos… And I like them. 🙂
I just read what I wrote last year — Lamont responded but Dude had not yet appeared. 🙂
Heehee. You’re good. Can’t get any better than a Dude and a Lamont.
Dude and Lamont are the quintessential I don’t know what. 🙂
The names make me smile. I often will refer to a man whose name I don’t know, as Dude. Of course not to their face. And, I only use the term among people that I know very well. 🙂
Everyone in Southern California might be called “Dude.” I started using it in the 80s…don’t know how it got into my vocabulary, but it did. Out here, it’s not used at all which makes it all the funnier to me. Of course out here a dude was a guy who couldn’t ride but had cowboy clothes. 😉
🙂 🙂 🙂
Good answer.