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whatever else he and his roommate Todd had accumulated since their last monthly cleaning. He pushed the items aside and placed them in a really neat pile. The spot was ready, where was Todd?
    “Dude,” Rickie called out from his floor seat as he peered up at the television that sported a huge hand swipe across the screen through the dust. “Come on. You bailed out, guy. I worked hard to get cleaned up for this momentous final round.”
    “Dude, like I’m pinged out on Pong.” Todd propped his feet on the coffee table. He flipped through the bound manuscript that Rickie had received.
    “How can you be like, pinged out on Pong?” Rickie asked. “It’s like the root of all video games.”
    “It’s boring and makes me think of my parents. And dude, when I put Pong and my parents together what I get is pity, pity for the parents. Guy, like that doesn’t even wash right.”
    “Valid point but . . .” Rickie turned around. “You must respect them for enduring this game. It’s the ultimate challenge.” Rickie pointed at the television. “Dude, this is bi-video. Bi meaning two, Dude. Two colors…Black…White. Two shapes… A line…A Dot. Guy, think of the genius behind this game. No weapons to turn to. No awesome graphic people. All you can do is hit the dot with the line. Hit it over and over, faster and faster. Why do you think Stephen King is so brilliant, guy? He was stuck playing Pong. No game companies fed images in that dude’s mind. He had to come up with them all on his own. Bet me he thought of Carrie while playing Pong.”
    “Whoa,” Todd whispered slow and deep. “That is really Rickie thinking.”
    “And you’re the smart one guy. Look at you being all intellectual by reading.” Rickie set down the controller and stood up. “What are you reading?”
    “It’s your vacation guide.” Todd held up the manuscript. “The letter said you should read it to find out who you’re going to be camping with.”
    “Dude, I have, like seven months to learn them. Personally I think they wasted their time on the books. I mean, who’s going to really read them?”
    “True.” Todd agreed.
    “Plus . . .” Rickie snorted a laugh. “Can you believe they’re paying me to go on some mountain retreat experiment? Just in time, too, dude. I lost my job at Burger Boy.”
    “You didn’t need that job. You have better qualifications.”
    “I do.” Rickie nodded. “So like, you hold off the landlord for seven months on my half of the rent, OK?”
    Todd shrugged, and then his eyes grew wide. “Oh, Dude! You like have a monster up there with you.”
    “No way, Dude! Like really?” Rickie said with excitement.
      “Before you get yourself all worked up, I was referring to a dude, a six foot six dude. Imagine . . . Hulk Hogan.”
    “Whoa. How much does he weigh?”
    “Doesn’t say,” Todd answered. “But bet he weighs a lot. He has to, guy, he fights bears for a living. He’s a Forest Ranger.”
    “Wow. No wonder they picked him.”
    “He works in the Army’s Forest Ranger section.” Todd scratched his head. “I like, didn’t know the Army ran the forest rangers.”
    “Think about it, Dude. National forest. . . National Interest, get it?”
    “Valid Rickie- Miester point. You are going to rule up there. You are so much smarter than these people.”
    “True and I kick ass at Pong. Shall we?” Rickie pointed to the television.
    “All right, I’m ready.” Todd stood up.
    “Dude, one more thing I have to know, are there going to be any babes up there?”
    Todd looked. “Guy, like only two, so like, if you want to get laid, you better get a jump on it, like right away.”
    “Oh, you know it. And . . . that info, the two babe info, that was the vital info, guy.” Rickie winked. “So toss the vacation guide and let’s Pong.”
    In total agreement and out of his pitying parents phase, Todd did as requested and tossed Rickie’s manuscript onto the table with everything already there. He