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AshtonNextGen
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GTA4 Short Story: Nico and the Old Jewish Man

Posted by AshtonNextGen - August 29th, 2008


This is just a little short story I came up with when I was sitting next to an old jewish man drinking coffee in soldiers plaza all night waiting for the day to come.

Old man - Oy, its nice isn't it?

Nico - Huh?

Old man - I'm talking about the articulture of this town, take that monument over there, it sure makes you appreatiate the little things doesn't it?

Nico - I wouldn't know...?

Old man - Oy, thats the problem with you kids today, always rushing around, causing trouble. Sometimes you need to just sit back and enjoy the little things, ...take time to appreciate what you have!

Nico - ...Hey old man, I've been watching you drinking out of that coffee cup for over an hour now, haven't you had enough yet?

Old man - Oy, don't worry yourself about me, I'm just a simple old man with simple values in life, it's what we do in our time thats important.

Nico - Yeah? And what might that be?...

Old man - To carry out our purpose. ...(points towards the lit up building behind them) you see those buildings out there? To think that so many years ago people slaved over the construction of those buildings, just so we today could live in a better, cleaner tomorrow.

Nico - ...But their just buildings, what makes them so special here that they should be set apart from the buildings in any other city?

Old man - Ey', thats a good point. It was the attention to detail I was remarking on, but your a bright young one I can tell.

Nico - And what about you? ...What is your so-called purpose in life?

Old man - Me? ...I'm just an observer in this town, (points to the people walking in the street) just take a look for yourself, (points to busy woman yakking gossip on her cell phone, to a homeless beggar asking passer-by's for spare change) You see those people? They may not seem so important to you, but they all have their own unique purpose to carry out, Some of us have important purpose in life (points to a police officer drinking coffee) ...and some of us do not! (points to a tourist taking photographs of the monument.) The important thing is that we're all here, doing whatever our purpose is meant to be?...

Nico - And you still haven't told me Your purpose yet...!

Old man - *Chuckle* Me? ...My purpose is to sit here, at night, every night, ...drinking coffee. ...Just watching the world go by. (Holds his coffee cup out which appears to be attached to his hand) ...Look this coffee, its not even real, *chuckles some more* theres not even any coffee in it!

Nico - ...Right? ...I'm going to be heading off now...

Old man - You want to know the answer to your question right? Its because we have purpose in this world that we do the things we take for granted. For instance, just the other day I saw a guy get mugged at knifepoint in the street. He had no reason to get mugged, the crook would of had no use for the spare cash, why it wouldnt even matter if the other guy got killed! Nature takes its course and we're all back doing what we're meant to do.

Nico - ...*Pauses* ...You've lost me entirely?

Old man - Can I ask? ...Why do you do the things you do? why do you subject yourself from your main character role, so you can go climb walls, kill hookers, or shoot pigeons in alleyways, regardless if people are looking or not?

Nico - I do not know, ...I do not think about these things, I just do them.

Old man - ...And why are you standing here now, talking to an old man, when you could be out, earning cash, fighting crime lords, or doing so called 'street racing' that I hear so much about these days?

Nico - I guess I just chose right now not to do these things, I like that I have the option not to...

Old man - Oy, exactly what I'm talking about, Its in your role that you take for granted, unlike us you have the option to decide what you want to do, as for us... we just do what small choices we're given in life.

Nico - Interactment! Artificial Intelligence! ...Non Playable Characters! 'Life is a video game', is THAT what you are trying to tell me?

Old man - Precisely! Oy, and I'm just greatful to be involved, ...no matter now big or small the role is, that was the point I was trying to make...

Nico - So what you're saying is... if something bad happens to you, if you get mugged or run over, ...that doesn't bother you any?

Old man - Heh, ...you'd think it would? But thats only what we're told to think, ...how we're told to act and interact. If I'd die I'd just come back the next day, maybe even within the hour or so?...

Nico - Hmm... (pasues for a moment then sits down on the bench next to the old man) It must be a pretty hard life, not being able to have any control over appearance or your personality, ...I can imagine how fustrating you must feel,... brought into this world to live like a puppet!

Old man - Heh-heh, ...if that is what you call it? ...Maybe I am being told to think this way, to optimistically drink coffee all day and sit on this bench? ...but what I do know is, I accepted this role, and I'm happy for it! ...It's better, to exist with a minor purpose in life, than to not exist with one at all...

-Nico's phone rings-

Roman - Hey Cousin? You want to go grab something to eat?

Nico - Sure Cousin, I will pick you up within' the hour.

-Nico hangs up-

Old man - I can see you've already chosen your next purpose...

Nico - ...Even though I have the option to decline?

Old man - ...Even though your health is full, ...you can't gain any nurishment from the food you eat, yet you do it anyway, right?

Nico - Hmm, ...will I ever see you again old man?

Old man - Sure, I'll be here, I'll always be here, but only the question is, how do you know it will be the same old Jewish guy, or maybe perhaps an identical clone with absolutely no memory of this conversation taking my place? who can tell?

-Nico pauses for a moment, smirks to himself then begins to depart to meet Roman-

Old man - I'll see you around, ...even if I'm not the same person, ...I'll always be here, ...drinking coffee, ...watching the busy world go by.

-As Nico drives off and begins to decend from the area, the old man takes one last sip of his coffee as the sun rises and the world wizzes past him. He then fades away into nothing and in his place lies a young business man reading a newspaper, the homeless guy walking the street, begging for spare change is replaced with a smirky teen jock on his cell phone, and the prostitute harrasing passing traffic is replaced with a feminate college student taking a breather from her studies, and thus the circle of life continues...

GTA4 Short Story: Nico and the Old Jewish Man


Comments

Awsome!

i have GTA 4 for PS3 but its mainly my brothers BUT i like to screw around on it! lol

Heey welcome back D.K., its been a long time!
Looks like you get to read one of my stories for a change! lol
btw whatever happened to Silver in the lava reef zone? I never managed to get to the end of that, was intence!

Well Basically they finished their mission along with killing a T-Rex!

That one from sonic rush adventure? I'd love to see silver in that game! =P
(he is Blaze's Pimp after all, lol)

Nah it was diffrent what happened is a science company made a time portal and a T-Rex got out!

Oh... Damn science company! >=(

yea i`m thinking of calling them Arpeture Science (Portal reference) heh if you have watched Red Dwarf then you know what i`m talking about!

later on in the story Darkness is gonna find a few SAFE viruses and he is gonna have his sister Hope The Hedgehog and have Tails tag along with him and one of them has a scratched part and it says *Something Magnetism"! and Tails tries it

The REST you can figure out yourself! ^^

Woah.... trippy..

Thanks, ...kinda makes you think about the little people you tread on when playing GTA, huh? =)

Well.. Not really..
It will make me feel alittle bad for running them over though..

Lol =3