Embarassing cursing

I was rudely awakened early this morning by a great crash of thunder and torrential rain, and so I spent the next minute running round frantically unplugging everything. The power did go off for few seconds and for a minute or so the thunder was directly overhead. I went back to bed and overslept for the car boot.

Went round to my Dad's to return his sat-nav which I'd borrowed for the Birmingham trip. I also took the 360 to see what GTA4 looked like on the 40" 1080p TV. It looked pretty decent and my Dad was quite impressed by the graphics and the physics and the detail and scale of the city. I took great care to downplay the violence and less savoury aspects of being an illegal immigrant heavily involved in criminal activities, and emphasised the more fun aspects of the game such as playing pool and darts, socialising with friends and enjoying the sights of Liberty City.

However I decided to do a mission and as a room of gyrating partly clothed women filled the screen, I felt slightly embarrassed. As I picked up some gangsta drug dealer and drove away, the embarrassment increased as a torrent of 'shits, bitches, niggas' and the occasional 'motherfucker' boomed out of the surround sound speakers.

The embarrassment climax was reached when some apparently drug crazed guy revealed himself to be a policeman by screaming 'LCPD! Reach for the sky, motherfuckers!' at the very top of his voice and brandishing a gun. This was followed by a particularly violent mission where I had to run around a building gunning down policemen and FBI officers, before escaping with the aforementioned drug dealer. As we sped away from the scene in a stolen car with the owner dangling from the door handle, he expressed his relief and gratitude with another torrent of cursing.

Oh well, it was quite funny, looking back.