A phone conversation with Gerry Toll
Written at: 00:57 17 Dec, 2000
Me: Do you want to eat in an hour, then?
Gerry: Yeah, that's fine, I should be hungry by then. Are you hungry now?
Me: Yeah, I'm actually extremely hungry, but I can wait. I'm...well, I'm punishing my body.
Gerry: Okay.
Me: Yeah, it didn't perform as well as I'd hoped it would, so I'm punishing it by waiting to eat.
Gerry: Oh, um...what did it do wrong?
Me: Well, it couldn't lift up a car. You know how they say a mother can lift up a car when her child is pinned under it because she's under a lot of stress and all full of adrenaline? Yeah, that didn't work for me. There was this kid pinned under a car, and I tried to lift it up, but I couldn't. See, I think the thing was - it wasn't my kid.
Gerry: Whose was it?
Me: There was this really hot lady I saw - it was her kid. ... Actually, he wasn't so much pinned under my car as run over by it. Lemme explain - see, I see this really hot woman as I'm riding down the street, right? And I'm thinking to myself - quickly, that's how I think - why not pin her kid under the car and then lift it up in my duress and save him, in the process also earning her everlasting respect and love? Makes sense, right? But see, the problem is, I couldn't actually lift the car up when I acted out the plan.
Gerry: Did you stop to think she could have been married?
Me: Yeah, well, I didn't see a man around her, so I figured she was single, but if I had, I could have run over him, too, and then just "accidentally" not been able to lift the car up, you know...
Gerry: Like what actually happened with the kid.
Me: Sure, but, you know, that's why I'm punishing my body by waiting an hour to eat. I figure that'll be enough to correct for my actions. The Oregon Department of Corrections may have different ideas, but hey, I'm my own man!
Gerry: Right.
Comments on "A phone conversation with Gerry Toll"
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Did this Gerry Toll go to Klein Oak high school?
Written by: A Cupcake Lover
Written at: 21:41 08 Jan, 2007
Well now, that depends... Who's asking?
Written by: Jennifer
Written at: 07:49 29 Jan, 2007
Oh, no one of consequence. The Gerry Toll to which i refer was a senior when i was a freshman. I don't remember much about him save that he was quick as a whip. One of his silly observations i've always remembered.
I shared this observation with a friend the other day and she asked if i knew what happened to the witty fellow. I had no idea. She said i should check him out on My Space. I said, i think he went to Cornell. We're probably talking of air that floats in a plane slightly higher than My Space. But i did Google him. And i found you. Or this. Or . . .
I have no reason for asking. I have not read any other part of this blog.
The quip occurred when he was about take his Subway sandwich out of a little cooler in which it was packed. He said, "It's always amazed me how they can fit an entire municipal mass transit system into this tiny space." I was a freshman. It made me laugh. And he wasn't even talking to me. That's all.
Written by: craig
Written at: 20:13 27 Feb, 2007
The Gerry Toll I knew went to Klein Oak and Cornell, I wonder if he's the same one ;)
Written by: anonymous
Written at: 11:04 08 Jan, 2007