Mac sits on a fence that is surrounding the playground of his school.
His legs hanging and his feet locked between the bars.
He is staring at the ground until his one only friend taps him on the shoulder.
“What you doing Mac?”, he asks while eating the tuna sandwich his mom prepared for him, making bits of tuna fly onto Mac’s his shoes.
After a pause Mac answered with “Nothing much, just thinking.”
His friend conveniently named Answer (his parents were hippies) replies with “Thinking, about what?” while chewing down the last part of his lunch.
Looking up into the sky following the clouds passing by with his eyes Mac says
“Well, i wonder if i have a expiration date like food does.”
“But were not food.” Answer answered faster than a bolt of lightning.
“I know we are not food but food comes from animals too, like meat comes from animals and we are animals too i heard someone say on the TV.”
Mac tells Answer who is drinking his Apple juice as if it was a can of beer by crushing it to make the juice come out of his straw faster.
Answer starts thinking up a good thing to answer with.
While he trows away his empty crushed juice pack tells Mac
“I get what you mean, so you want to know your own expiration date like the ones our grandparents have.”
Mac sighs “Yes, i need to find out right now, I can’t take it anymore I haven’t slept in days because of it.”
“Well I don’t have an answer to your question there Mac, maybe we should ask The Guru?”, Answer replies.
“The Guru?! Are you mad! He would never speak to us..” Mac says looking as shocked as a fret boy peeing against a electric fence.
Answer laughs but he’s the only one on the playground laughing.
“No worries, i have a plan. You know he doesn’t get to eat candy right?
Well.. How about we bribe him with some candy?” Answer says.
Mac takes out his Lone Ranger lunch box and takes out a candy bar and some fizzle candy and proudly announces
“That should do it, don’t you think.”
They move to the far corner of the playground hiding the candy in their pockets.
Approaching The Guru, in reality a very obese kid in a wheelchair because he has an extremely low metabolism, they lower their heads a bit and stop in front of him.
The boy looks up and asks them while “What.. Do.. You.. Want..”
When he stopped breathing heavily Answer tells The Guru
“I am Answer and this is my friend Mac, He wants to ask you a question if that’s ok Mr Guru Sir.”
and he gives Mac a little push forward and backs up.
The Guru waits for some air to enter his lungs, and after some time he says
“Why.. Would.. I.. Help.. You.. Two..”
Before The Guru got to the end of his question, Answer interrupts and tells him they have candy for him.
“NOT SO LOUD!” The Guru shouts.
His head turns red and he coughs for the next 6 minutes and 24 seconds.
Answer stops his watch and they walk up to The Guru that is giving them gestures to come closer.
“Listen, i’ll answer any question you have if you trade me that candy.” nearly pulling the candy from Mac’s hands.
Mac finally speaks up and tells The Guru
“Deal! Now my question is what is my expiration date?”
The Guru pulls out a laptop and fold it open.
“How do you know you have one?”
Answer interrupts Mac from answering.
“Well, we all die someday don’t we? that’s our expiration date!”.
“Oh, and where to find it on my body or elsewhere so i can check if i ever forget.”
Mac says trying to over speak the Windows start up sound blasting trough the laptop speakers.
The Guru is heavily using his laptop and cant seem to close his mouth, so all the two can do is look into it.
“Ok, here is some info i found about expiration dates.
First lets see what it means.
…One.. Moment.. Need.. To.. Slow.. Down.. A.. Bit..”
Mac looks at Answer, and Answer looks back at Mac and they just move their shoulders up and down.
“The date past which a product, such as food or medicine, must be sold or removed from availability because it is no longer expected to be fresh or effective.
is one explanation, so we can conclude that your expiration date must mean when you are no longer alive enough to live that’s why they put old people in those retirement homes.”
This goes beyond Mac and he pulls the candy from The Gurus hands and runs away, Answer is surprised but chooses to run after Mac.
“So did you have an answer now?” Answer yells trying to run after Mac.
Mac stops and Answer bumps into him, “No, but i could have used the internet too you know.”
Answer is still surprised by Mac’s behavior.
“Ok ok, so what now?”.
Mac didn’t answer Answer, after school he took a shower and checked his whole body to see if there were numbers to be found but without any luck.
At night in his bed he started to ponder again about his question of life, and he came to a new conclusion.
‘All things with an expiration date are inside a package, so the package i was in must have the expiration date on it!’
His legs hanging and his feet locked between the bars.
He is staring at the ground until his one only friend taps him on the shoulder.
“What you doing Mac?”, he asks while eating the tuna sandwich his mom prepared for him, making bits of tuna fly onto Mac’s his shoes.
After a pause Mac answered with “Nothing much, just thinking.”
His friend conveniently named Answer (his parents were hippies) replies with “Thinking, about what?” while chewing down the last part of his lunch.
Looking up into the sky following the clouds passing by with his eyes Mac says
“Well, i wonder if i have a expiration date like food does.”
“But were not food.” Answer answered faster than a bolt of lightning.
“I know we are not food but food comes from animals too, like meat comes from animals and we are animals too i heard someone say on the TV.”
Mac tells Answer who is drinking his Apple juice as if it was a can of beer by crushing it to make the juice come out of his straw faster.
Answer starts thinking up a good thing to answer with.
While he trows away his empty crushed juice pack tells Mac
“I get what you mean, so you want to know your own expiration date like the ones our grandparents have.”
Mac sighs “Yes, i need to find out right now, I can’t take it anymore I haven’t slept in days because of it.”
“Well I don’t have an answer to your question there Mac, maybe we should ask The Guru?”, Answer replies.
“The Guru?! Are you mad! He would never speak to us..” Mac says looking as shocked as a fret boy peeing against a electric fence.
Answer laughs but he’s the only one on the playground laughing.
“No worries, i have a plan. You know he doesn’t get to eat candy right?
Well.. How about we bribe him with some candy?” Answer says.
Mac takes out his Lone Ranger lunch box and takes out a candy bar and some fizzle candy and proudly announces
“That should do it, don’t you think.”
They move to the far corner of the playground hiding the candy in their pockets.
Approaching The Guru, in reality a very obese kid in a wheelchair because he has an extremely low metabolism, they lower their heads a bit and stop in front of him.
The boy looks up and asks them while “What.. Do.. You.. Want..”
When he stopped breathing heavily Answer tells The Guru
“I am Answer and this is my friend Mac, He wants to ask you a question if that’s ok Mr Guru Sir.”
and he gives Mac a little push forward and backs up.
The Guru waits for some air to enter his lungs, and after some time he says
“Why.. Would.. I.. Help.. You.. Two..”
Before The Guru got to the end of his question, Answer interrupts and tells him they have candy for him.
“NOT SO LOUD!” The Guru shouts.
His head turns red and he coughs for the next 6 minutes and 24 seconds.
Answer stops his watch and they walk up to The Guru that is giving them gestures to come closer.
“Listen, i’ll answer any question you have if you trade me that candy.” nearly pulling the candy from Mac’s hands.
Mac finally speaks up and tells The Guru
“Deal! Now my question is what is my expiration date?”
The Guru pulls out a laptop and fold it open.
“How do you know you have one?”
Answer interrupts Mac from answering.
“Well, we all die someday don’t we? that’s our expiration date!”.
“Oh, and where to find it on my body or elsewhere so i can check if i ever forget.”
Mac says trying to over speak the Windows start up sound blasting trough the laptop speakers.
The Guru is heavily using his laptop and cant seem to close his mouth, so all the two can do is look into it.
“Ok, here is some info i found about expiration dates.
First lets see what it means.
…One.. Moment.. Need.. To.. Slow.. Down.. A.. Bit..”
Mac looks at Answer, and Answer looks back at Mac and they just move their shoulders up and down.
“The date past which a product, such as food or medicine, must be sold or removed from availability because it is no longer expected to be fresh or effective.
is one explanation, so we can conclude that your expiration date must mean when you are no longer alive enough to live that’s why they put old people in those retirement homes.”
This goes beyond Mac and he pulls the candy from The Gurus hands and runs away, Answer is surprised but chooses to run after Mac.
“So did you have an answer now?” Answer yells trying to run after Mac.
Mac stops and Answer bumps into him, “No, but i could have used the internet too you know.”
Answer is still surprised by Mac’s behavior.
“Ok ok, so what now?”.
Mac didn’t answer Answer, after school he took a shower and checked his whole body to see if there were numbers to be found but without any luck.
At night in his bed he started to ponder again about his question of life, and he came to a new conclusion.
‘All things with an expiration date are inside a package, so the package i was in must have the expiration date on it!’
