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Rural Teenage Americana
What are your teenagers doing? Are you sure? This is part two of a short series of journal entries I had the pleasure of reading for the first time at my son's high school graduation party, along with all of the other guest. We present it now as bit of history from rural Ohio,2002. Strange titles and all. Adventures of a Rural American Teenage Boy Guys Playing With Each Other All Night Long Every few months, my friends and I get bored of sitting at home and eating pudding (a very fun word to say). We meet at somebody’s house, usually Caleb’s, and play video games and other nerd-like activities. The usual suspects always attend: Caleb, Billy, Isaac, Loren, and Chris. Guest appearances are frequent, and even some females have been known to partake in this nearly-divine event. A.D.D runs rampant among the group, so we bring enough movies, game systems, and games to keep the group (Isaac) from whining. We call it “Nerd-Con”. Most Nerd-Cons go about the same. We eat pizza, consume caffeine at levels that would make most mortals explode, and play games until we can’t stand to look at a controller. The best Nerd-Con ever started out mundanely enough, but it soon turned into something great. People were showing up right and left, well maybe just right because that’s where the door was. We played more multiplayer games than ever before. There was something about that night that made our minds brilliant. After everyone but the core crew minus Chris left, we invented a whole new genre of games. Games that do not use any televisions or even any electricity. These “non-video games” as we like to call them entertained us for nearly half an hour, longer than any of us have ever kept focused before in our…hey look a dog with a poofy tail……………… Later as our excitement tapered off, we decided to go toilet papering, toilet papering other peoples houses! We loaded up, taking all the ammo the chopper,(my mom’s mini van), could handle. We took two reconnaissance runs, low and fast, of the enemy's base(who we will call Fred Flintstone) and then somebody had to pee. My decision to hold it haunts me to this day. Isaac was chosen to be the get away driver not for his incredible skill in this area, but because we knew his comic guffawing and inherent wussiness could only compromise the mission (also he throws TP like a girl). Isaac dropped us as close to the enemy as possible, at LZ Goose Nest. We were on our own from there. We made our way to the target and began to expend our ordinance. We eventually had to go back for more. As we finished up, I decided I would throw the last role as high as I could in a tree. The roll went over the tree and fell for what seemed like hours. I knew it was going to land on either “Fred’s” roof or car. I was wrong, it hit his gutter and made a thwack so loud that even Isaac heard it from a block away with Elton John’s greatest hits blaring in his ear. We scattered, all of us made it back the van except for Loren, and we left without him. Minutes later we found him walking up the street like he was trying to convince himself that he hadn’t done anything wrong. I laughed so hard my pants got a little wet. We picked him up and called it a night.
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Seems harmless enough now.
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This intel was contributed by jdunn
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May, 2012
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