Something Weird Happened Down by USC

So, I'm down by USC and I've got this Lyft-Line thing going on---which means more than one person will get in my car and I will take them two different places.

One guy, let's call him Luke, is in the front seat and we go to pick up another guy a few blocks away.

There's this giant street party, but the guy we are getting, Kory-Kahliehl, is coming from another direction. He opens the back door and sees me and the first passenger laughing.

He is large, like 6 foot 6 at least and he is handsome but has that look like we messed up somehow just by being there or like maybe he's angry at his girlfriend or all girls everywhere and even smaller boys like the one in my front seat. Or maybe that's the cool kid look now, I can't really tell, but I'm down to take him to where he is going and see whatever  is in this guy's large mind. But, when he sits down, my whole car takes the weight of him and lowers substantially.

"Where are you going," I say.

"I'm going to Pussy Bushmill's."

"Did you say Pussy Bushmill's?"

"Yeah, it's in West Hollywood."

Then I got weird, like this weirdness of what is Pussy Bushmill's and where is the other guy going. I look at Luke in the front and ask him where he is going and I try to not laugh but laughs are coming out of me despite myself. Like they do---I even laugh during sex sometimes, because I just think of something ridiculous and this was like that. I couldn't stop.

I'm driving away, not really sure where I am going Culver City, West Hollywood, some Pussy place, and I drive around the corner.

Kory-Kahlieh tells me to stop the car. And I take the command and do so.

"I'm getting out."

So, Kory-Kahliehl left us there, by the side of the road.

Luke goes, "Well, that was unusual. Does that happen a lot?"

I tell him no --- this is the first time and I ask if he thinks I offended him in some way.  But Luke assures me, you were perfectly polite. I say, maybe he thought we were laughing and like friends and he felt left out, but we missed that guy. Good Ol' Kory-Kahliehl was okay in our book.

So, Luke and I drive off with Luke looking up Pussy Bushmill's on his phone and us trying to figure what happened to Kory-Kahliehl and we laughed despite ourselves all the way to Culver City.

Song Playing: Lana Del Rey's Video Games.
Car Snack: Swedish Fish.