Apartment Construction Site Ambush

>staring out of my apartment window >see woman trying to open locked gate to the construction site across the street >leave my room and go down there and tell her she's barred from entering; it's locked >met with complete indifference >turn back and head towards the stairs >just as I'm turning, I get hit in the face and knocked to the ground >get kicked in the ribs several times and stepped on for good measure >manage to wipe the blood off my face and catch a glimpse of who's doing this to me >see an elderly Chinese man with his cane in one hand and service revolver in the other >realize the woman was a ruse to get me out of my apartment >the elderly Chinese man's Triad underlings arrive to surround me and cordon off the exit >forces me at gunpoint to play MAH JONG and defeat them or I'll be banished from the Hua out into the land of the Yi (our term for barbarians) for eternity

A greentext-style story describes a man leaving his apartment to stop a woman from entering a locked construction site, only to be ambushed by an elderly Chinese man with a cane, a revolver, and Triad underlings. The absurd punchline escalates the situation into a bizarre threat involving forced mahjong and banishment among barbarians, parodying exaggerated action-movie and racist adventure-story tropes. It is used as an absurd reaction to an unexpectedly elaborate or deranged chain of events.

• @eternalclassic / 28910 2023-03-06