365 Days of Drabbles: Day One Hundred-Twenty Two

[jeriendhal]

For aldersprig: "clean-up after Yet Another Disaster"

Note: I have mint copies of the original Damage Control mini-series in a box in my attic. ;p

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"Omni Insurance, thank you for holding. Hello Mrs. Henderson. I understand you're still waiting on your windows to be replaced. Yes, I know ma'am, but a lot of people lost windows when that asteroid fragment hit. At least you don't live on the coasts. Yes, those poor astronauts did the best they could."

"Omni Insurance. Your car was eaten by a what? Let me transfer to an agent in the Cryptozoological Dept."

"Omni… sir… sir, please slow down, I don't speak Japanese. Please hold for a translator." Pushes button. "I wish the fucking JDF would just kill that stupid lizard!"

Comments

[rix_scaedu]

It probably seemed like a profitable line of coverage when they went into it, i.e. a very low chance of claimable events actually occurring...

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

You'd get Dum-dum Dugan's vote.

Godzilla bit him once.

[shadur.livejournal.com]

He doesn't speak Japanese, but he's learned enough to pick 'gojira' out of a stream of babble. :)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I assume not through the hat. Otherwise that lizard would be dead.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

That probably was the logic behind the idea.

"Omni Insurance. Just because it's an Act of God, doesn't mean you shouldn't have active insurance."

[aldersprig.livejournal.com]

:-D

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Nope. On the arm. (Shrunk down to 18 inches by Henry Pym, scooped up by Dugan: "Come to Papa-- YAAAGHH, HE BIT ME!")

[ndrosen.livejournal.com]

Or he knows what it must be, from watching CNN.