It was inexplicable that two latino, hipster twenty-somethings from East Los Angeles would talk like 85-year-old Jewish retirees from Queens, yet that was how it was.

"Pull ovah and ask fuh direck-shuns," shouted Isabel.

"I know where I'm going!" Ricky replied with a Yiddish accent that seemed to come from nowhere. "You always do this! You always want to undermine my AUTHORITY!"

He exclaimed very loudly, mostly because he was hard of hearing and couldn't monitor his own pitch. Isabel was silent for a second, silently mouthing words to herself. Then, as if in an afterthought, she said, "You just always think you know what's best..."

"That's it!" he shouted and slammed on the breaks. "I'm turning this cah around right this instant. The Merkelsons can go to hell!"

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alexandergreenb (joined about 14 years ago)

My favorite contemporary writer is Tao Lin.

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