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I shouldn't lie, I'm drunk right now. I'm sorry. I don't
really believe I should apologize, but I do know that I'm
not exactly being a good role model by getting drunk; however,
I'm 23, and I think it's fair that I have a few on my Saturday
night. Big is on. Right after he becomes an adult, and now
he's helping out some little kid with math because he's good
at it and actually in the same grade. That woman is in it
that it's He Says, She Says with Kevin Bacon. I love that
her name is Lorie in that, except she has that e which I don't
have. Not as cool. Actually, I think the e is kinda coo, wish
I had it, but my name is my name, so I can't hate it.
So, I'm going to tell you all a story that you might not
think is as funny as we thought when it happened. If it isn't
funny, I'm very sorry. I'm just trying to share a good moment
with you. Okay, it's me, Laura (my best friend), Drew (her
boyfriend), and Zach (a common friend of us all), and we're
sitting around at my sisters' party drinking bear out of red
plastic cups. Have you ever seen anyone check their watch
and pour shit all over themselves? Well, Drew turned his wrist
quite casually the opposite way pouring his full cup of beer
slowly and steadily all over my sister's carpet. He was pouring
so slowly andrr continuously that Laura and I had time to
notice it, look at it, point, look at each other, and say,
"What the fuck is he doing?" Drew realizes what
he has done after nearly the entire beer has been poured,
and we crack up hysterically at his mishap. We ask him through
broken laughter why he did that. He tells us that he had noticed
this enormous freckle on his wrist that he had never seen
before that exact moment, so when he saw it, he just stared
at it blankly while the beer poured effortlessly from his
cup. He was simply shocked that there was this brand new freckle,
dark, round, and so obvious that had just appeared on his
wrist, and he couldn't believe it. He showed us the freckle,
and our laughter turned into stomach-aching uproarious (sp?)
hysterics as we stared at this newly born freckle. I have
had new freckles that I noticed just one day, so I understood.
To me, it was part of the reason it was so funny. As we were
laughing and brimming tears, Laura had grabbed Drew's wrist,
licked her thumb, and rubbed it against Drew's wrist. While
we weren't even noticing, she declared in broken laughter,
"It's just a piece of dirt!" Drew looks at his wrist
and falls off the chair screaming and giggling. After we laugh
for about five minutes, our faces hurting, our stomachs aching,
I grabbed Drew's wrist and saw a perfectly clear, ivory wrist
without a speck of color on it. All that shit, all that laughter
of his ruining the carpet for a new freckle that turned out
to be a drop of soil on his skin. So stupid, probably not
funny. Sorry if it wasn't. It was DAMN funny if you were there.
It helped also that ten minutes later my sister slipped about
four steps down the stairs mid-conversation with the rest
of us. That was pretty fucking funny too. Sorry you missed
it.
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