Bo-round Show Down

On a hot Thursday afternoon, Chris Macon is just getting off work from BBQ Johnny's after 7 hours of working the front register. "Dude, I am so ready to get home and relax", he thought to himself while taking off his work hat and making his way out of the restaurant's front entrance to go to his truck. As Chris gets in his truck to pull off and leave he makes note of the traffic on his way home. "Seriously, it's a Thursday afternoon, why are people piling the road like it's Friday? They're making my life extremely hard right now, work does that enough so I could really use a--."

Chris's internal monologue is suddenly interrupted when a silver Nissan Maxima cuts him off at a stoplight. "Seriously bro, if I wasn't Christian and didn't have a mother who could hear from a thousand miles away I would definitely give that guy some choice words", he said to himself angrily. When Chris pulls into the parking lot of his house he spots his mother Brenda taking out the trash as she looks up in time to notice his arrival. With a smile on her face Brenda greets Chris while noticing the irritation on his face, "Hey honey, how was your day?" she said gleefully. "Eh, it was kinda meh and tiring, I don't really wanna talk about it", Chris replied in an exhausted tone. After entering the house Chris is starting towards his bedroom when he receives a text message from his older brother Muggsy, it reads: Yo, you ain't gonna believe this, Bojangles has STOPPED SELLING BO-ROUNDS. Any bo-rounds you get today will be the last you'll ever get in history".

The exhaustion that Chris had previously felt had now transformed into an energetic, anxious wave of worry and hunger as he quickly turned back around and raced out the front door. "What's going Chris? Where are you going?" said Brenda in a high pitched voice as Chris raced past her. "I GOTTA GO GET ME SOME BO-ROUNDS BEFORE THEY'RE ALL GONE", Chris yelled back as he quickly made his way to his truck. As he got in and cranked up his truck he quickly pulled out of his parking lot in a manner so fast that he nearly ran into his mailbox. When Chris made it back to the main roads he noticed that the traffic he previously encountered had now grown bigger. "Man I gotta hurry and up and get to bobo's before they run out" he thought anxiously to himself. "Why in God's name would they stop selling bo-rounds? Everyone knows that's my favorite thing to eat on their menu" said Chris in a tearful tone.

As Chris pulled into the Bojangles parking lot he noticed there were almost no free parking spaces left. Catching site of only one free space left, Chris quickly drove into it while cutting off another driver who was also attempting to take the same spot. As he got out of his truck and quickly made his way inside he catches wind of a an empty beer bottle flying towards his head and ducks in a nick of time. "What the heck?" he said aloud while looking to his right, realizing that the bottle came from the car he cut off for the empty parking space. "YOU IDIOT YOU TOOK THE LAST SPOT FROM ME, NOW I GOTTA PARK IN THE NEXT LOT OVER AND HAVE TO WALK HERE FROM THERE", said the male driver angrily, "Sorry" said Chris nervously as he made his way inside the restaurant.

Upon entering the restaurant, Chris makes note of the chaotic scene in front of him. The store is filled to capacity with everyone from the patrons to the employees yelling at each other in a hostile manner. With the line for orders running nearly out the door, Chris walks up to a random customer and assesses the situation. "Hey ma'am do you know what's happening?" he said to the surprisingly calm and collective elderly woman in front of him. "Well apparently it's been spreading all over social media that this is the final day that Bojangles is selling bo-rounds, so for the last hour people have been piling up here in a rush hoping to get their last bit". "Funny" said Chris, "My older brother who works at another Bojangles a county over texted me 30 minutes ago to tell me the same thi-". Before Chris could finish his comment, he and the elderly female are interrupted as two people in front of them engage in a physical altercation. "Hey fool don't be tryna cut in front of me" said a tall bald man, "I didn't cut in front of you" said the elderly man with a hunchback to whom he was talking. Suddenly the elderly man swung his walking cane at the tall bald man's head and knocked him into Chris and someone with a tray of food, causing them both to fall over.

As the woman with the tray of food comes to, she realizes the large order of bo-rounds on her tray has now been wasted on the floor and swings her tray at the bald man's face. As the three way altercation gets ready to grow, one of the Bojangles staff members from behind the register comes over to intervene. "Hey hey, what's goin on here?" said the cashier. Grabbing the cashier by the shirt, the bald gentleman exclaims "Look we want our bo-rounds NOW and if you don't give em to us, your head is gonna be the substitute", he said in a threatening tone. As more employees come from behind the counter to help the cashier out, they are rushed by the angry crowd that has filled the store and and an even bigger fight breaks out. Chris quickly ducks down as trays, cups, boxes and bodies are flying over his head. "Oh my goodness, I gotta get outta here, these bo-rounds ain't worth dying for" he said in a frightened tone. Amidst the chaotic battle royale in front of him, Chris quickly runs out of the Bojangles store and makes his way back to his truck to head home.

When Chris finally makes it back home he finds his brother Muggsy waiting in the living room for him with a big frozen bag of bo-rounds. "Hey what are you doin' here Muggs?". "Well I thought I'd bring you a bag of bo-rounds since I felt bad about pulling that awful trick on you" said Muggsy with a laugh. "Trick! what do you mean?" Asked Chris in a curious tone. "The text that I sent you a while ago saying we weren't selling bo-rounds anymore, it was all a joke bro. I just wanted to mess with you" said Muggsy in a growing fit of laughter. "YOU BIG MILKDUD" screamed Chris angrily, "I almost got killed trying to get some bo-rounds thinking there wouldn't be anymore thanks to your little joke and somehow the rest of the world was in on it because there's a riot taking place at Bojangles over people thinking bo-rounds are really going out of stock". "Oops" said Muggsy in a mischievous tone, "I guess it doesn't help that I also shared that joke on my Facebook with thousands of followers thinking it was real, man it's good to be me". Falling to the ground in exhaustion, Chris looks up and says "Lord, why did you tell mom to adopt this evil milk dud as my older brother?"