(Carter's )
I whistled hill street blues tune (Season 17 episode 5), as I strolled happily to my daughter's house. The old me would never be caught dead without a chauffeur on a Saturday morning, much less walking to my daughter's house.
The new Carter, was learning to smell the roses once in a while, and enjoy life. Lois had told me that every other Saturday some of Spooner St. neighbours were keeping family get togethers, so there would be nowhere to park, which gave me the perfect opportunity to take a leisure stroll.
As I walked around a corner, nearing 31 Spooner St, I continued to whistle as I thought what a perfect day it was, since it was summer, and the weather was nice. My calm and happy thoughts didn't last long, as I was greeted with the unpleasant sight of Joe Swanson, and his electric wheelchair put into reverse coming at me at high speed.
Shocked and paralyzed with surprise, I was barely able to shout his name.
"I got it!," Joe shouted as he raised some sort of fancy racket to hit an incoming ball. 'Is that a pickleball racket?,' I thought before Joe's wheelchair slammed into me. "What the hell?!," I heard Joe shout, as he was just as surprised as me, that he slammed into something.
The impact didn't run me over, instead I instinctively latched onto Joe, as Joe's electric wheelchair continued to pick up speed. "You idiot!," i yelled in anger. "Turn the wheelchair off!." "Carter?!," Joe said surprised it was me he had run into of all people. "I'm trying but the button seems to be stuck!." I glanced behind me praying that no driver would be driving at the moment since we were nearing the road ahead. (From Carter's angle). Just then, Mayor West appeared from the opposite street on rollerblades,and took out a gun, 'Great I'm not only going to be run over but shot too,' I thought to myself in irritation.
Mayor West fired the gun, but instead of hearing a gunshot, I saw two massive airbags miraculously appeared which we ran into, which then threw us into someone's yard into a short tree. "Hey Carter!," Mayor West greeted me so casually, as if he didn't see me hanging upside down facing him, barely hanging from the branch, as I dangled like a baby's mobile above a crib. "You better stop monkeying around!" Mayor West laughed, as he skated away like the happy lunatic he was.
"Uh Carter," Joe spoke, drawing me out of my thoughts and me glaring at the disappearing Mayor West. "A little help here…" Unlike me who was hanging upside down, Joe was in a hilarious Utthita Viparita Salabhasana pose (yoga position) on the ground. Just as i was about to give Joe a piece of my mind, Peter, Quagmire, and Cleveland showed up, "OMG!," Peter exclaimed in a mixture of panic and surprise. "Are you guys okay?" "Do we look like we're alright?!," I finally yelled in frustration.
"We were playing pickleball, when we realized Joe slammed into someone." Peter explained, as Cleveland and him took me down. Meanwhile, a garbage truck drove by, while Quagmire helped Joe back into his chair. Joe's left arm accidentally hit the switch. Making his electric armchair race after the garbage truck. Quagmire sighed, as he ran off with Cleveland to stop Joe's malfunctioning wheelchair. "So what brings you to our side of town Carter," Peter simply asked, as we casually walked onto the pavement, and headed to his home.