Strange Things You've Had to Research for Your Writing

Well how about this one for a premise?

hooboy

College. A bunch of guys rent a beat up old house in town next to a daycare.

Problem is the parents picking up and dropping off park in our driveway. We argue with the owner of the daycare every day. She doesn’t care.

So one day I begin parking behind the parents who are parked in my driveway. This infuriates the daycare owner. We go back and forth and usually I go out and move my car so the parents can get their car out.

One day, though, I’ve just had it. I worked most of the night, had early morning classes, and I have twenty minutes to shave, shower, and get ready for my second job this afternoon.

I get home and sure enough parents are in our driveway…again. So I park behind them and go inside. Get in the shower and when I get out the daycare owner is beating on the door loud enough to shake the wall.

I go downstairs wrapped in a towel and open the door. She burst into the middle of the living room and screams at me.

While she is screaming I take the towel off and calmly dry my hair.

I am buck naked. She stops screaming long enough to realize she’s standing next to a naked college student, screams something about calling the cops and bolts for the door.

It doesn’t open. In her haste to leave she’s locked the door instead of unlocking it. Now she’s stuck with a naked man.

I tell her I have to have the key (true) to unlock the door and the key is upstairs on my dresser. I leave her looking like she’s about to have a heart attack.

When I come back to the living room she’s white as a ghost. I unlock the door and say, “It sucks to be stuck and not able to leave, right”?

Fast forward about 20 minutes and when I’m leaving a cop is parked in front of the house. I chat with them through the car window.

I explain the situation and they chuckle. “Did you invite her in”? No, I tell them, she barged into my house. “Well it’s not a crime to be naked in your own house.

Her problem for violating your privacy”.

I’d love to say this rectified the situation, but it didn’t. We never found a way to stop parents from parking in our driveway.

If I was going traditional Wattpad, it would be a cupcake shop breakfast overflow or the dude has a kid enrolled?

May be a bit to “terrify the Karen” to work, though…

How to hold a rat

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Oh? Makes me think of MJ’s Ben. :sweat_smile:

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I just needed pictures of people holding rats to be able to describe someone holding a rat (the MC) and what that might feel like. Basically, hand under rat armpits, squeezing around the stomach.

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Like a kitten in a mama cat’s mouth. :joy:

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Recently googled the most efficient way a person can kill someone by biting their throat.

As suspected, it’s relatively physically easy, but psychologically you have to be in a really desperate situation.

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I’m wondering if this is werewolf, zombie, or survival-of-the-fittest related :eyes:.

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Survival of the fittest :smiley:

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Awesome! Chaos!!!

Chaos!! Honestly one of the most entertaining chapters I ever wrote. Don’t know if I’ll actually use it in the final draft, but it was fun doing the research for it :slight_smile:

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Bonus alternate! :wink:

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I’ve always been told to bite out a jugular vein by my father, if some dude pinned me. Better to let him die than wait on justice.

And I’ve always been like… thanks, I guess.

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I’ve just googled what’s the best way to get rid of cocaine/ if there are any traces left behind if you burn cocaine… kind of out of curiosity, but also trying to figue out a plot to a new story I may or may not write. :joy::joy::joy:

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Please tell me that you all either look these things up in private mode, or use a VPN :flushed:

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What he said lol

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Ooo, or you could use the computer of someone you don’t like :eyes:

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No? But considering I don’t actually have a shit ton of cocaine to get rid of, I think I’m alright? :sweat_smile:

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Welcome to the watchlist!

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Burning? :eyes:

I’d go for the classic methods: give it to a trusted friend for safekeeping, or flush it down the toilet.

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That would work if it was a little bit, but I was more thinking a whole warehouse full… turf wars, and illegal gang activity kinda thing :thinking:

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