Well summers almost over and I can honestly say something I've never been able to say before. I miss school. Well...fuck school. I miss some of the people who also happen to attend the same school though. I missed some of you a lot more than I thought I would. And some people I wish I could stop missing. I don't think I can take this for two more weeks. I guess the point of this is to speak my mind so I'm just goning to go ahead.
A few good things happened this summer. Went to my first major league baseball game. Who knew you could charge so much money for that caliber food. Anyways. Built a PC. Yeah. Walked into the office and my dad has a small fortunes worth of parts. "What are these for?" "You're building a computer." "Oh. Why?" "Cause its gonna be yours." "Oh." Yeah. I know, I know. Me and my dad's conversations are always that riveting. My brother graduated from EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) school and came home for a whie. Honestly I really enjoyed getting to see him. Plus he had a massive pack of fireworks that he gave me. Well lent me. Well has trusted me with. Well he told me to hide them when the police showed up and I hid them in my room. That counts as giving them to me right? ..Moving on. I've been working for this guy who is basically a big kid. He works with my dad and I occasionaly do work for him. But he over pays me and under works me. Its kinda nice actually. And not the easy money either..though im not complaining. Its just...hmmm. Ok so a really bad storm blew through here and his fence fell down. So he asked me to come help him put new posts up so he could tac the old fence to it. On the way over he called and wanted to know if I had breakfast. I told him no and he said to meet him at Ihop. Personally not one to turn down Ihop. Or pancakes in general really. So I to Ihop and sit down. Im sitting there for a few minutes and he calls me. Him- "You coming?" Me- "I'm here?" Him- "The Ihop by my house?" Me- "Oh." So I'm getting up to leave to find this other Ihop and the waiter sees me. Him- "She not coming?" Me- "No im just gonna meet hi-...yeah she stood me up." Waiter- "Oh im sorry man." Me- "No it's ok. Happens a lot." So I leave and get to the other Ihop. We eat and pay and before I can say anything he tells the waiter that it's on one check. He pays for me to eat. At least a twenty dollar meal. So anyway we get back and start working on the fence. As we start digging new holes for the new posts to sit in I bring up how much easier the job would be with an auger. He agrees but states that its probably expensive. Almost thirty minutes later we have half a post hole. We both look up from working. Me- "Auger?" Him- "Auger." On the way to Home Depot I stop for gas. On the way in to pay the cashier he puts his card in the machine and tells me he's got it. Not sure how to respond I just say thank you and ask hom how much I should I should pump. "About twenty dollars." So I start pumping and we get to talking about video game ideas. When I look up next I've pumped twenty-seven dollars worth. "Oh crap. Sorry man. Thats my bad." Him- "Nah, just go ahead and put ten gallons in." (Roughly thirty-five dollas worth of gas.) "Oh. Wow. Thankyou." After Home Depot we get back to his house. We dig the three holes in maybe five minutes, wash off the auger and decide to take is back. When we get back to his house again his neighbor comce out and basically says hes trying to get the insurance company to cover it because the rest of his fence sucks too and he wants to replace all of it. So we take a break and go inside and talk about anime for about two hours. After these two hours he asks me how much he owes me. In my head im thinking..today I've worked an auger for like 5 minutes. You bought Ihop and paid for my gas. That and most of the day with him was talking about video games and anime. So I'm pretty sure I should be paying you. But i just kinda say pay me whatever you think I deserve. "Alright. twenty-five dollars sound ok?" I say sure and tell him thank you. We drive to the atm and this man gets out four twenties. And hands me three of them. Sixty dollars is not twenty-five dollars. Im kinda reluctant to take the money considering I've earned none of it be insists on giving it to me. Says its spending money to use for the girl who stood me up at Ihop. Dug three holes. And this man Buys my gas, breakfast, and pays me sixty dollars. Needless to say it was a pretty good day.
As for whats bad thats happened. Well my best friend since middle school has gotten pregnant. And no. The father doesn't want it. One of my very close friends moved away. And I probably won't see her a again for a very long time. My other best friend is going through some really tough financial issues and his family is taking it kinda hard.. with his dad being a memphis cop and all. All in all though I think it was a pretty good summer.
Anyway the reason I started writing was because ive had some people on my mind a lot lately and I wanted to let them know I missed then and am looking forward to seeing them soon.
