DQ is Don Quixote, SAN is for Sancho.
July 2nd, 2020
A run in with Twitter
DQ "Sancho, what is this? Everyone is walking around looking at these devises, you call them phones."
Sancho, who considered himself a computer whizzola, explained how smart phones operate and how social networking it what it's all about. Then he got into Twitter, explaining how one can microblog with just 280 characters and use "pound" an hashtags and retweet when something you like comes around.
DQ goes to a youngster, asks him to show him a tweet and then grabbs the phone. The tweet went:
"Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest -and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure, it's not your fault."
DQ "What's this?" he asked.
KID "It's a tweet from the President of the United States" the child replied, with an admirative sparkle in his eye.
DQ "Sancho! Come here! I need u to help me spear this Twitter thing!"
SAN "Spear Twitter? Master, but how?"
KID "Haven't you heard of Tic Toc?" said the youngster, grabbing his phone back from D. Q.
DQ and SAN "Tic Toc?" chimed in D.Q . and Sancho.
KID "Tic Toc. It's the rave. I'll film you riding with your spear on your horse and I'll put it on Tic Toc"
The boy deftly put himself in position and called out to DQ to gas it up.
KID "Look fiercer! Fiercer! he shouted in his strident voice."
DQ "I am going to spear this ungodly Twitter!" chimed in DQ, leaning forward on Rocinante, the wind blowing his long, greying goatee, his eyes ever so focused on his target.
Like the windmill, DQ imagined Twitter with giant spinning arms. He charged and charged at Twitter, wheeling his motorcycle around for what seemed like an eternity. Then he heard sirens. The cops had been called because he was tearing up the local high school football field.
SAN "Lets get outta here!" cried Sanchez, pulling a wheelie on his scooter to catch up to DQ. "Follow me!"
DQ followed Sanchez into a large blue store that happened to be an Ikea.
DQ "I speared that Twitter thing, Sanchez, did you see?"
SAN is walking with his eyes riveted to his phone while trying to negotiate the complex,
labyrinth-like alleyways of the Ikea store.
DQ "What are you doing?"
SAN "I'm connecting to Tic-Toc Master."
DQ "Si, si, that boy said I was going to annihilate Twitter with Tic -Toc."
SAN "Yes, you can see it here, already it is getting many hits."
DQ "Hits?"
DQ moved over to look at Sanchez's small phone.
DQ "I shall buy you a gold case for that little smart think, Sanchez, 18K!"
SAN "I am honored but really it's not necessary--"
At that moment, as DQ was moving to look at the Tic-Toc images, he bumped into an office chair, inadvertently hitting one of the levers that made the chair pop up, hitting his chin and making him fall on his back. His armor made a lot of clanging noise as he crashed to the floor.
SAN "DQ, DQ, are you alright?
DQ, a little wobbly, struggled back to his feet. "I want an apology from this chair, the designer of this chair, the salesman of this chair and the person who put this chair together. I will not move from this spot until formal apologies are presented."
SAN, about to reply but then thinking twice takes another approach. "You are right, his excellency, I shall contact the manager. Do not move."
At that, Sancho runs off and finding a family with 3 children he asks them to to him a favor. "I have a friend who is a little delusional, could you please act if you are the manager of the store, the designer, and the salesman and just offer an apology to my friend." At that Sancho pulls out a gold coin from his pocket and gives it to the father.
Child 1: "What is delusional, Daddy?"
Father: "It is when you see something, but you don't really see something, and then you see something."
Mother: "Delusional is when someone is going a a self-deceptive head trip because they are hallucinating or daydreaming to find the fool's paradise."
Child 2: "Does that mean that the person is a liar?"
Mother: "Thank you for asking that question Melissa, I will try to be brief. When delusional, the person may be thinking he or she is telling the truth because they see a mirage, and as far as their perceptiveness is concerned, that mirage is a real as can be.
