Saturday, September 19, 2015

Pinball Wizard


There was a common room/area in the building where I lived, and I'd bought a big pinball machine to keep there, though it was silent, so there were no bells or whistles, just the points adding up. Some neighbors said that they could hear other neighbors making noise through the walls, and I said that wasn't going to happen because this pinball machine didn't make noise. I kept playing and playing, accruing points. At one point a bunch of guys came into the common room, one in particular was cute, but had this weird, gnarled finger and not a wedding ring, but a weird sort of ring.. Some of the pinballs were actually limes at this point. Suddenly, I hit a bonus round with the lime, it was bouncing all over the place and it triggered a disc that then slipped into this one area and I was about to say out loud, "What now, an apparition is going to appear?" and all of a sudden a hologram appeared of a guy, maybe a superhero who rose out of the machine. All the guys were standing around in awe and kind of laughing but also kind of nervous. The hologram started talking and I said to the guys, "I'm so glad I'm not playing this alone, this would have totally freaked me out." A cheesy song started playing.