Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk appeared at the Met Gala Monday with the Canadian musician Grimes. The appearance by the couple at the star studded event confirmed a hunch from a British MI6 agent that the two had been quietly dating. Secret agent James Bont came to the conclusion over the course of a globe trotting, action-packed adventure that led the two-fisted hero from Hong Kong to Rio de Janeiro and finally to New York after acquiring a mysterious microfilm in a deadly chase in a cable car ascending to the heights of Sugar Loaf Mountain. In his first face-to-face encounter with the innovative supervillain behind PayPal and Tesla, the secret service operative exchanged witty banter with Grimes.
"You can spare me the charm, Mr. Bont. I'm immune. Mr. Musk is a man who knows what he wants, and when he wants something, he stops at nothing to get it".
Seated at an elegant Elizabethan oak draw lead table surrounded by ancient tools of death in the Arms and Armor wing of the museum, Musk discoursed at length on the torture methods preferred by the daimyos of the Muromachi Shogunate.
"Influenced by eastern cosmology, the feudal lords of Japan used minimalist techniques to inflict the maximum amount of pain. The lords believed the final scream of their victim was the soul escaping from the body".
"Has anyone told you that you are quite mad, Mr. Musk"?
"Am I, Mr Bont?"I am merely an art lover and a collector"
"Tell me, Mr. Bont, do you like backgammon?"
"I do, but only if the stakes are high."
"Shall we make it interesting then? Let's say one million dollars, winner take all?"
"Your move, Mr Bont"
"Merely, beginners luck. Another game. Double or nothing".
"You're overconfident Mr. Bont, it's you're greatest weakness"
"Haha, fortune is not in your favor tonight, Mr. Bont"
"What?"
"No"
"No"
"Impossible"
"It can't be"
"Very well, Mr. Bont. You win this game, but I doubt you will be so lucky in the future! Farewell!"
Musk and Grime are banging. Reminds me of my Grandpa's old army stories.