Unless I'm greatly mistaken about the floorplan of their rental house, Chris' bedroom is upstairs, and so is Barb's, technically. I don't see Barb climbing a whole staircase every night to go to sleep, though. I'm guessing she and Chris nest in the downstairs front room (which also explains the sheets blocking the windows).
Heh, well, it wouldn't be Barb who would be climbing the stairs.
He really doesn't stick out much in Ruckersville, due to the pervasive inbred rednecks and white trash that fill local businesses. Chris, dressed like a crazy homeless tomgirl, blends in. Also, as Marvin has said before, Chris is a huge pussy. When he goes out, he's usually very quiet, and wary of strangers, paranoid of the trolls. Sure, every now and then he'll act out, like his vandalism at Walmart, but for 99% of the time, he's not noticeable at all unless you recognize him.
This. Really, people
way overestimate the significance of "weird" out in public. The problem with Chris being interesting on the street is that in order to figure out what you're looking at, you have to analyze him. Like, sure, he'll pop up in your vision, compared to other people, because he's
slightly distinctive. And I really mean that, he's only slightly distinctive. His hair looks like dried straw, unless he's started taking better care of it in the past two weeks (which is possible, but maybe not likely). So that might pop up. Or maybe he decided to put on makeup this morning. (Don't think that happens, but maybe Chris might have a weird whim one day this year or something)
Otherwise, Chris is a lot less interesting on the street than you'd really think.
And once you've noticed him, you have to pause for a moment to specifically pick out what's weird about him. He's wearing women's boots, he's wearing mom jeans, he's oogling you in a weird way. And sure, at that point, you might laugh at him.
But overall, I don't think his patterns are consistent enough for anyone to notice him regularly, let alone for him to become a local celebrity.
Does anyone actually want a return to his random online insanity? There's frankly very little he could do that wouldn't just be variations on what he's already done. He isn't exactly a renaissance man. He can talk about a handful of things. What I find far, far more interesting is what he gets up to entirely on his own, without internet influences, without people pulling the strings, and without anyone else to blame but himself. Finding out how he got banned from Walmart was better than anything that people feeding him lines ever achieved.
He's going to get himself jailed left to his own devices. I've said it in the past, I think that he was kept out of a lot of trouble in his twenties because of the amount of time he spent online living in the fantasy world of Clyde Cash, Pickle People, and Innernetsweethearts.
Well, scripting Chris' activity is definitely boring. We did it back in the day because we thought Chris was so ridiculous, that he couldn't possibly fall for our completely obvious plot. And then he did. So we started trying to see how far we could push it, would we ever reach a point where even Chris is smart enough to notice? We thought there had to be a limit, but there wasn't. Like yeah, at this point, everyone knows that if you tell Chris to do it, he will do it. There's no question about that anymore.
But I don't think leaving Chris to his devices is necessarily the best alternative. It does get results, but I definitely think you could improve on it. I think the best technique is to put Chris in interesting situations, and just observe how he handles them.
Chris puts himself in interesting situations just on his own. But instead of just sitting around, waiting for Chris to do it, you could do it yourself. Chris might do it tomorrow, sure, or he could stay inside with Barb, crying, for a year and a half.
Active trolling is definitely the most optimal way to get amusement out of Chris, at least at some point. (Of course, we're just bored with Chris, so we have new interests nowadays)
