More Wisdom

This is a true story.

Years ago when I was traveling down a lonesome Road into the west, an Old Man on the Road asked me for what I could spare in gas money. He told me if I helped him out he would enlighten me. I bit. I gave him the $3.75 or so in my pocket left over from the fiver I'd just dropped on a Slim Jim.

What this Old Man said has haunted me ever since.

He asked me if I liked South Park, the television show. I was surprised an old timer like him would even know about that show. I told him yes, and that I liked it because I was from Colorado. Then the Old Man proceeded to drop Wisdom on me:

"Good son, good. More folk should know about that show, because that show is the Truth Itself. Mark my words, ye wayward young'un: if ye live long enough, ye'll see everything on that show come to pass. It's only a matter of time. As inevitable as the sun rising and setting. As true as the universe itself."

Lightning struck seemingly from nowhere and the wind suddenly blew cold upon the high Utah plain. I was dismissive at first; I just told the Old Man "thanks," wished him well, and got back in my car.


Turns out the Old Man was right. As time goes by, I'm noticing more and more, wilder and wilder episodes of South Park are coming to pass in everyday life. Here's the latest example:

Pandemonium as Chinese government blocks the internet to an entire region of the country for the last seven months

South Park's warning this would happen

Beware readers of the Monstro Blog: you never know when or where Wisdom may tap you on the shoulder and ask for spare change. Fortuna favet fortibus.