Thinking Green Day Chart Topper Times

written 21 Nov 2006 while the sun tried, at least, rising

Waking up at 7am on a Summer Saturday, dad’s change jar, $1 buys you a Coke and a donut, cigarette smoking behind funerals, skateboards, waiting for friends to wake up, skateboards, no girlfriend yet, ever, looking outside every 5 minutes it rained, roadtrips to Altoona, passing out tired in the middle of the afternoon from, skateboards, alternative music was, jaw wasn’t broken, no one liked Country music or rap…

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  • [...] Thanks for jogging my memory. I remember one of my favourite days of awkward youth, sitting on the sidelines watching the boys doing amazing skateboard tricks at the park and wishing I could just have one as a friend (I daren’t even imagine that he might some day even want to be my boyfriend). I liked to sit there and watch them on Saturdays hoping that one of the cute ones might notice me in the shadows and ask me to pull up my skateboard. As I sat there watching and having my day dreams they’d all eventually become my friends over the next few weeks and teach me their signature tricks until I would eventually excel over my teachers and became The Most Famous Skateboard Girl In The Entire World. I would fly my old krew out with me to all the most awesome competitions around the world and still have time to follow my other pursuits like winning drinking battles against large hairy bikers for money, and smoking without coughing. I look back on those days with such awe and admiration for what I achieved in such a short lifetime. [...]

    - Yummy Wakame - love at first web site » Blog Archive » Aah… life stylings | 02:32pm 21 Nov 06
  • hahaha, how could you have left that last sentence out?!

    “I am truly awesome”

    - chad | 07:42pm 21 Nov 06
  • You couldn’t have put it better!

    - nathan | 11:20am 22 Nov 06

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