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All Things Come From Whoops

Lauren

I am working on putting together and refining a five minute story to be told for an American Sign Language exam tomorrow. Chuck, my evil and competent classmate, is great at this stuff (as well he should be, writing his thesis on ASL grammar and syntax and all). Me? I can’t remember the goddamned vocabulary and without vocabulary I have nothing.

The assignment is this: five minute story about a short weekend trip in which plans were interrupted. Include signs for “whoops” and “hell.” It must not be boring.

Literally.

My version is a trip to Chicago, could also be Indy. What I need is the “whoops.” Any suggestions?

10 thoughts on All Things Come From Whoops

  1. You’re driving to Chicago to see the 30th Anniversary The Cure Reunion Concert. You’re just passing Merrillville when the Apocalypse happens, and Satan comes up from Hell and is walking the streets of Gary, where he feels right at home. You think “When in Rome,” so you’re searching on the floor of the car for a Black Sabbath tape to put in the tape player, and you accidentally run into Satan as he crosses the street. Whoops!

  2. You made plans to go to Chicago to see Lake Michigan but ended up in Indianapolis at the White River Whoops!!

  3. Or you could take a friend with yoou to a concert. The friend has been acting strangely lately. She’s moody, keeping to herself and just not communicating. You think this will be a good way to get her out of her funk. HOWEVER–as you pull into the parking lot of the concert, she tells you her water has broken and she is having a baby and you have to deliver it! Whoops, big time!

  4. Shit! I forgot about including hell!

    Oh well, your flattery with calling me both evil and competent will keep me going at least through the exam!

  6. If you’re traveling to the city of broad shoulders from Indiana and you need to incorporate the word Hell, I think that a whoops inspired detour into Gary is gonna be all but necessary.

  7. Hi, I’m a sometime lurker and a deaf person here. Are you going to be telling the story as a storyteller, or as a character, along with your friend Chuck? Anyway, you can carry on a converstation as a storyteller, you just shift positions to indicate that you are becoming another speaker.

    Maybe the story can be about a person and a friend driving to Chicago, and during the night the driver doesn’t bother checking the map or is very sleepy, and by the next morning they are really far off course. When the other person wakes up for her driving shift, she realizes how far off course they are and starts yelling at the driver:

    “Agh! How did we get here? What the hell is wrong with you!? You didn’t bother checking the map even once during the last five hours??”

    *silence*

    “Well!? Do you have anything to say at all??”

    “Um…whoops?”

    “…This is SO the last time I let you drive…”

    Well, that’s my idea…hope it gives you a good idea of what to do. 🙂 Please let me know how your exam goes.

  8. Whoops, you ran over Rick Santorum and Fred Phelps having a secret love tryst on the side of the road.

    Hey, I’m just trying to be helpful…. *grin*

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