I fell out of a trashcan playing Un Poco Loco

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by Raela_24

by Raela_24

So yeah. But lets start at the beginning! Ok, so school ends at 3 for me, but the bus leaves at four for the high school. This means that I go to 'bus study hall' for an hour. During this time, if me and my friend have no homework, we go hang out in the locker rooms. This was one of those days. I brought my guitar bc I thought I wouldn't have a chance to practice tonight because I have to study for exams (I decided I would over the weekend and to give myself a break this week) so me and (I'm going to call her Jazzy) were messing around and she decided to sit in one of the trashcans. They are these huge things, like 3 feet tall and we use them as a lost and found in the locker room. So Jazzy crawls inside one and we play around a little and then she got out to throw a lacrosse ball at the wall with her stick. Meanwhile, I decide it would be a great idea to sit ON TOP, NOT INSIDE the trashcan (my legs pressing against one of its wallys and my butt on the rim) and play my guitar. Now we've been in there for a half hour and I am currently playing/ screaming Un Poco Loco from Coco, on top of a trash can while my friend laughs and plays her little Lacrosse game. And we had joked about how FUNNY it would be if I fell. So, being the genius that I am, I decide to lean back so that the can would lean against the wall, thinking it would hold. Well guess what. IT DIDN'T. SO THE TRASH CAN IS FALLING BACKWARS AND MY LIFE FLASHED BEFORE MY EYES. I swear time slowed and all I thought was 'Oh no my guitar' so in a brilliant moment of synapses firing off in my brain, I hold my guitar above my head and -crash. so now I'm just laying on the floor, guitar held above my head ( which am surprised I could do considering my arms are twigs and I can barely hold them above my head usually) (wait food's here gtg eat my Chinese, be back in a sec) the food was good. ANYWAY! Previously, when we were joking around, I had almost fallen a few times, but she had steadied the trashcan, so I was fine. So as it turns out, my friend had not been paying attention so all she heard was a loud BANG and stared freaking out. After making sure I wasn't dead, she proceeded to laugh her butt off at my expense. You know, like any good friend would. All I managed to say was 'take my guitar' and I probably sounded like a dying man asking you to protect his child or something. Still laughing, she took it from me and placed it against one of the lockers. I eventually got out of the trashcan, and I was still on an adrenalin high from going through a life- threatening experience. My legs were shaking and I was laughing randomly at stupid things. And then an 8th grader came in and asked why we were acting so weird and I just blurted out "I fell out of a trashcan playing Un Poco Loco on my guitar." And I kid you not she just nodded like it was the most normal thing in the world. Which honestly at my school, weirder thing have definitely happened. I don't know how no one heard us, I was obnoxiously strumming so loud and I know for a fact that a bunch of schoolers were sitting outside in the hall. Wow this is long. We went back to study hall and it was like coming out of an apocalypse into the normal world. No on knew the things I had just gone trough and I had to sit there and pretend to be a normal functional human being for like ten minutes. Then I got on the bus went home and spent 40 minutes eating Chinese food and writing this. Well I'm going to end it here and leave you with the self-embarrassment I have already dished out. Enjoy it.

5/22/19

~Rae