Game:Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle/fillbooth
You can't help but join your fellow MIT students in a fit of giggles. Nobody really knows why Professor Lupin "Wolf" Madblood had this phone booth installed here, in the middle of the first on-campus supermarket in MIT's history. What you do know, however, thanks to your careful measurements and the clever geometry skills of Misty, the girl looking at you with an admiring smile on her face, is that, assuming an optimal distribution, no more than 65,890 marbles will fit inside the phone booth. And that Professor Madblood walks by every day.
Slowly and quietly, so as to not attract the attention of campus security, you pour bag after bag of marbles, handed to you by Misty, into the phone booth from the top. Going on Mandy's suggestion, you even remembered to put a few marbles in the coin return slot, just for that added bit of flair. Mandy and Mark stand guard around the booth to make sure nobody's looking. Your video camera sits on a space across the aisle, recording the entire event for the website later.
It takes about an hour of careful marble-pouring, but in the end, the phone booth is filled from bottom to top with marbles, held in place by the folding door, which you know won't be able to open due to all the marbles blocking it. Sure, they didn't fit an optimal distribution, but with very few extra marbles left over, you can all make a much quicker getaway, ready to get up early tomorrow to see old Professor Madblood's reaction.
This is gonna be great.
- *** You are easily amused ***
But wait...
You feel a tremendous wrench – the hand of God coming down to wipe clean the temporal chalkboard. The world dissolves, and then quickly floods back into existence, restoring its state as it was before you made your move.
But somehow, things aren't set up exactly the same as last time....
Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly.
On to the next aisle.
The aisle stretches to the north, and back to the south. The shelves on either side of you block your view of the rest of the supermarket, with only the brightly colored aisle markers visible.
You have stopped your trolley next to the pasta section, bright plastic bags full of pale skin-tone shapes.
There is a brunette woman a few meters ahead, filling her trolley with sauces.
A shiny metal phone booth sits in the center of the aisle.
Your move:
- Pick up phone booth
- Pick up aisle
- Pick up phone booth and aisle
- In Soviet Russia, phone booth and aisle pick up you!!
- Use the phone booth
- Examine phone booth
- Examine aisle
- Examine me
- Examine woman
- talk to woman
- talk to me
- talk to phone booth
- sing
- inventory
- go to the magazine aisle
- look north
- look south
- look east
- look west
- look left
- look right
- look up
- look down
- look out
- look away
- go north
- go south
- go east
- go west
- go left
- go right
- go forward
- go backward
- jump
- jump back
- fly up
- tunnel down
- travel to past
- travel to present
- travel to future
- undo
- redo
- wait
- fall asleep
- wake up
- eat food
- eat the phone booth
- push booth
- fill booth
- draw booth
- dig around booth
- dig booth
- your mom
- pinch me
- cast Frotz
- cast Meteo
- cast Ultima
- cast Tom
- cast Magyck Myssile
- get the hell outta here
- enter shadow
- explode with the energy of a thousand suns
- win game
- let the dogs out
- get eaten by Domo-kun
- attempt to pronounce "xyzzy"
- say it again
- plugh
- go north, north, south, south, west, east, west, east, B, A, start
- remove cockroaches from mouth
- rm -rf *
- close this window
- vandalize the page
- Grawp vandalize
- recurse
- dial "666-666-6666" on the phone booth
- see my vest
- decline Latin verbs
- swear very loudly
- push buttons, push buttons like you just don't care
- Oscar Wilde on Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle
- become a professional screenwriter
- How do I stop the Grue from eating me?
- AAAAAAAAA!
- Leave aisle
- Buy pasta
- open PUTPBAA version 2.0
- do something
- play RuneScape
- breakdance
- look at pants
- look in pants
- Do absolutely nothing
- change clothes
- Ask the brunette out to a date in Atlantis.
- opt for the fetal position
- Huff kittens
- Pinch the brunette's buttocks
- talk to grue
- Flip the buggy over and crawl under it and ask the lady for a bottle of sauce so that you can survive for another day
- learn to speak every single language known to man (and several known to monkeys!)
- spontaneously combust
- Try to fight a Grue, and lose badly
- Leave this site and watch YouTube videos
- This option is really the one which will make you win
- die
- come to a horrible existential realization
*Secret option!
Super-secret option!
Double super-secret option!