Desperately Seeking Jay ~ The Whole Story

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WANTED:2

I’m writing this ad because I’m desperately seeking a dude I’ve only dreamed about. I know he’s out there somewhere, so PLEASE read this and text-message me right away at 
desperatelyseekingjay@aol.com okay? Here’s some 411 for ya’all:3

So I, like, was at this joint in Chelsea a year ago, and they were talkin’ bout this guy, Jay, who lost his mean, bad parent and they sooo sent him to the orphanage? Well, after being in there for a WHOLE year, this nice family came and took him home and adopted him. They forced him to wear all black, like this DRESS thing YEAH I kid you not! And they waited for months for him to grow a proper beard, but it, like, wouldn’t grow? So they stuck him out in the hayloft and made him milk cows. Why, I heard they even made their neighbors bring THEIR cows over so he wouldn’t have any time at all to himself. And every Saturday they stuck him out in the fields and dressed him up like a scarecrow and made him just STAND there for hours. But he ran away after a year. I saw his picture in the newspaper with the story, and he was real cute. He looked like he would know how to treat a girl right, ya know? I really wanted to meet him but nobody at the paper would cop to his address. Grr.4

Then, like, a year later? I heard about this other dude, and his name was Jay too! I think it’s the same Jay! No really. He was, like, really goofy and stuff? And he was so silly that the day before his nineteenth birthday (he had lied to all his friends, saying he was going to be eighteen to get more presents!) yeah, so he was out in a parking lot setting off, like, fireworks? And he ah, looked UP, I mean way up, dudes, and there was this mothership of all motherships and it like TOOK him; just beamed him right up! But he was back in a second cause they have, like, accelerated time there? Yeah well, they said his name was Jay, and SO not Scotty. The poor baby 5

So please, like, ANYONE knowing who this mysterious-cute-funny Jay-dude is, get a hold of me PLEASE or I’ll just DIE, I know it 6

~Desperately Seeking Jay7

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Dear Desperately Seeking Jay:9

Get a life. And STOP using semi-colons- they suck!10

LOSER.
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~ANONYMOUS JERK12

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A year after this fateful reply was received, Ileana was at the local hangout- Starbuck’s Coffee- when she spied a handsome young man who looked quite familiar. Walking up to him, she exclaimed in surprise:14

“Oh my God! Oh my God, oh my God, like, O H...  M Y...  G O D! You look like the boy who was taken by the mothership of all motherships! And, the dude who was forced to milk cows and be a scarecrow for an Amish family gone mad! Co-in-kee-din-ky weird! Are ya Jay?”15

The young man smiled at the pretty (albeit goth-looking) young lady and replied, “Yup. That’s me. Guess you read about me, huh? Hey, it’s my birthday today. You wanna go catch the latest gaming exposition? I hear they setup some pret-ty neato stuff to try out.” Jay prayed this pretty young girl would say yes. 16

“Heck yeah I do! I’ve been desperately seeking you for some time. After all, you made it a year with those black-dressed beard-loving gaming-hating cow-milking scarecrow-enlisting peeps so, I bet you could go like, a whole lifetime with me! Whata you say, eh? It’d be AWESOME and, like, wicked fun. Well, so long as you don’t blow me up, beam me up, or make me milk any cows, that is. Yeah."17

Ileana reached for Jay’s keyboard-callused hand, propelling him through the door of the Starbuck’s, wide-eyed and wondering if he was off on an even scarier adventure than what he'd already encountered in his fantastic past. Oh well, Jay mused, She does seem enthusiastic, and I need enthusiasm and amusement in a girl. But... I do hope she doesn’t still use semi-colons: cause that’d really suck!18

Author notes

So this was a contest entry in Susan's Happy Birthday Jaybird Contest. But I had to cut a lot out to fit the 400 word requirement So, this is the whole mad-cow mad-love werdo story HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAY!

See contest at: allpoetry.com/Contest/1471920
See 400 word conforming contest entry at: allpoetry.com/Story/1477481

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  • fae
    October 11, 2005
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    Thanks Dawn. I did win It was a lot of fun as is jay glad you enjoyed it

  • DawnBaby
    October 10, 2005
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    Excellent

    Oh this is funny, I enjoyed this one, oh no....I use semi-colons too! Great imagination, love it, love it love it, I bet you won with this one! Great Job!

  • fae
    August 29, 2005
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    ROFL. I know. I didnt think 400 would be hard to follow. Go figure Jay just HAD to take over my brain in double that lol. I do hope he laughed! TY Yay glad it made you smile


  • SusanL
    August 29, 2005
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    OK listen I had just had 2 contests limiting to 55 words! I thought 400 seemed like a novel in comparison!
    pout..... pout
    I will say I like the rest of this. it is funny and clever and it made jay smile and isn't that in the end what this is all about?
    So Yes bravo to you!
    Susan

  • fae
    August 28, 2005
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  • evlclown
    August 28, 2005
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    Yep... definitely a sort of thing going on here...
    and as an addendum to my previous comment; and a clever use of a semi-colon, I have come to realize that you really do scare me.

    sis... thanks for the laugh

  • fae
    August 28, 2005
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    What is wrong with semis; they rule!

  • fae
    August 28, 2005
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    Thanks! This wasn't the actual entry though you know. Too long. Don't know bout winning, but I really had fun with our Jay. I don't know why he hate semis either; I love them. Why I think Yem is getting used to my humor Bony hand Ah thank you Yem for always reading my stuff and being honest. Makes me skip when ya like it Where's my


  • Yemassee gold member
    August 28, 2005
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    I like the font choice...yeah I notice such things.

    Why does he hate semi-colons? Maybe I should ask him. I think this thingie may be the winner...it's funny and coherant...most people who know Jay aren't (me included)

    Look at that photo, doesn't he have long bony hands! Not sure what that says about him...I don't think it works like that big feet myth...

  • Jay Is Magic
    August 28, 2005
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    Heheheheheahahha!

    Semi-colons do suck!

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