Adam Vs. God

 by Frank Boardman

 

GOD:  My son, i have come from on high to ask you a few questions.

 

Adam:  Well, okay but make it quick, I have a meeting that I'm already late for of Friends of the Malacalaca Tribe in Northwest Brazil.  Big corporations are limiting their dental health and we're gonna do a lock-down... but i guess you wouldnt care about that.

 

GOD:  ok.  Look, the thing is this:  All life is sacred and i do my best to create beautiful things, be they beautiful on the inside or out.  So everyone has some good traits and bad.  But i think I may have been drunk or something the day I made you.  I've been paying close attention and I cant figure out what I was thinking.  What good points do you have?  I'm pretty distraught about the whole thing.

Adam:   I'm an expert on the ADL-tree, I only eat food that has been passed over by rats so I dont keep anyone from eating, Wetlands would collapse without me and then how would the five freakshow rejects get to write letters to foreign dictators? 

 

GOD:  I see, yes.  Now, I've got to wonder about the survival skills that I've endowed you with.  What sort of evolutionary benefit do you serve?

 

Adam:  Well, it doesnt matter.  i'm too busy to worry about women, so I'm not going to be able to pass my genes along, but if I did, I'm sure I'd help create a new super race of bubble-butted mole-people

 

GOD:  interesting.  what kind of an effect do you have on other people?

Adam: well, everyone likes me, except Justin Taylor.  But he hates women and native americans.  And then theres some other problems in my animal-rights group.  Theres Chris, whos "too good" for garbage cans, Beth, whose breasts are falling out

 

GOD: what?

Adam:  um, nothing.  Then theres Frank who is a Nazi.  no one really understands me except the mites that are growing in my hair.

 

GOD:  I see, well, thank you for your time and i'm very sorry.  I dont screw up that often.

Adam:  Wait, i have to tell you about the movement to free all Portuguese prostitutes

 

GOD:  No, i really gotta go, I've gotta go reveal myself in a cloud to the National Inquirer.

 

Adam:  Wait, dont I get three wishes?

 

GOD:  You're thinking of a genie, goodbye.

 

 

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