Running Gag.
I woke up in my usual pseudo-hangover state looking for liquid while in bed with a groggy head. I hear knocking downstairs. I look outside and notice a large truck parked in front of our place. I sit there on my bed looking out the window. The man looks about a couple seconds longer and then drives away. I flop back down into my bed and lay awake under my sheets a bit longer. Could not here a sound from anyone at this moment, I guess all the roommates are gone. I get out of bed and shower, then I sit in front of the computer listening to some music. I see Adam come up the stairs. "Hey Adam, what are you doing?"
"Nothing right now."
"Wanna go shopping?"
"I gotta go eat right now, then I'm going to school to study."
"Aww come on man, you don't need to study."
"Yes I do, dammit!" He says jokingly.
"Want to go later on?" He asks afterwards.
"Yeah sure."
"Ok see you then."
He gets some stuff from his room and ventures downstairs.
I couldn't wait though, I got changed and got everything ready and went towards the downtown of Peterborough. My first stop was Blue Streak, the local music stop for vinyl records and a vast amount of CDs. I look through the current punk and rock vinyls for anything good. I see some Jack Johnson, a lot of Tom Waits, and various other artists I’d love to buy. I had no money though. I look at the CDs on the wall for some Massive Attack, but did not find the album I wanted. I looked for some Death Cab For Cutie, but there wasn’t a single CD from them. Ok, well time to leave this joint.
I get back outside and stand on the sidewalk looking around. The sun blazing causes ripples to form above the streets like they are leaking propane gas. I squirt my eyes underneath my shades; everything is discoloured yellow and bright like a nineteen seventies Polaroid picture. I continue my walk and make my way to Clumleighs. I look through the SNES section first like always. I overhear Jimmy talking with a customer about pro-wrestling. I make my way over to the PlayStation games too look for a gem, but find none. So I look over at the GameBoy games and look up and greet Jimmy. “How’s it going man?”
“Not too bad.” He says smiling, rocking back and forth.
“What do you think about the Jays this season?” He asks, clearly noticing my hat.
“Oh they’re going to be great this season man, definitely going to check out some games, I tell you best entertainment you can buy for that price.”
“Yeah definitely man, I’m usually there with my puppets and they show me on the big screen.” He says laughing and makes some gesture to tell me it’s wild.
“That’s sick man, they did so much work to that place, it looks great inside.”
“Yeaaahh they did. It is great.”
I leave the store unsatisfied that I didn’t find anything. So I check out the Disc Depot after and look around in their store. This store is like 2 stores down from Chumleighs, and apparently it’s run by an ex-employee. So they had a little war going on between them. Chumleighs has better stuff overall, but you never know what you might find. Low and behold, what do we have here? Legend of Mana for PS1? Near mint? That’s at least 50 bucks US on EBay. I look at the back and see that its $29.99… pretty pricey, but I got it anyways. It was in great condition.
After that I decided I better go home before I spend anymore money. But when I finally reached home and got on my computer Adam returned from school and wanted to make the rounds around Landsdowne and such. So I went along with him. We stop at Staples, FutureShop and whatever is around that area like we have always been doing all year. The same stores, the same routine. This was going to be the last time though. We didn’t treat it as such, and it was just another trip. When we got to FutureShop I look right away at the CDs and so many where available for $9.99 or two for $15 dollars that it was so hard to resist. We managed to escape without buying anything though and went to Reid’s Dairy to get some milk shakes and drove home.
It was so sunny out and hot that Adam and I decided to walk up to Jeff Cards & Comics to do some trading. We go along McDonnell to Monaghan road then we reach the store. I bring out my trades and the guy behind the counter brings out his stuff. We spend a good two hours between us and so after satisfied with our trades we started to walk back. “Hey where does that trail go?” I asked, pointing to this dirt trail leading into woods.
“I don’t know guy.”
“Let’s check it out, might be a shortcut.”
We run across the road and head down the dirt path. It lead us to this hidden playground where a couple of families brought their kids. I look around me checking out the trees and the clouds when I stepped on a stick. The stick got tangled in my legs and piercing my shins. “Fuck.” I muttered.
“What the hell are you doing?” Adam asked.
“The stick speared me man.”
We both look back and the stick is sticking out of the ground.
“How the hell did you do that?”
“I... I don’t know.”
We both laugh.
Finally we start to walk up to our house and there is Rob with his buddies Adrian and Mitch. Rob is raking up the cigarette butts on the ground into a garbage back, with a few pieces of trash as well. We say our hellos, get introduced to one another and then I went inside up to my room to check out the cards I just got. “Hey man, we’re going to Subway, do you wanna come?” Rob asked.
“Yeah man.”
I get my coat and wallet and hop into his Nissan Xterra with his buds. We get to Subway and Rob says he has to go to school now because his exam is in 30 minutes. So Mitch, Adrian and I go into the restaurant. Adrian orders a steak sub, and when the girl asks what he wants on it he says hot peppers, frank’s sauce, and mayo. “Damn man, we got to walk back afterwards.” I said.
“Oh I’ll be fine, I have to have it hot.”
We eat our subs and then walk back along the Rotary trail back home. As we are walking a group of two guys and a girl are walking towards us going in the opposite direction. One of the guys is sticking out his chest and trying to walk like a tough guy. He’s eyeing us down. I’m trying so hard not to laugh. The girl says “hi” to us and we just ignore her. A couple seconds later we burst out laughing. I start to walk like that guy “Look at me, all tough in my American Eagle golf shirt.”
When we get home we all head up to Rob’s loft and I finish the rest of my sub there. I turn on the hockey game and we all watch it. I get bored though because NHL sucks now so I just go downstairs to organize my cards again.
Rory drives up in the big truck. We say hello and what have you and he goes up to Rob’s loft too. When Rob finally got back we all partied up in his room before deciding to go to the 2nd Floor Lounge tonight. But before that Adam has arranged that we all go to his soccer buddies house for a private keg party. Only ten dollars and two kegs. So we all get ready and head out the door. It’s me, Mitch, Adrian, Rob, Rory, Adam and Kelly. We walk down the streets together and stop at the local Macs first so Kelly can some money out. Kelly makes joke about robbing the place, so funny. I hold his beer and he goes inside to use the ATM machine. A Honda Civic sees us and it goes into a parking lot across the street. When Kelly comes out the Honda Civic comes across the street and goes into the Macs parking lot. “Hey you, come here.” The guy in the car says. So Rob starts to walk up. “Not you. Him.” Indicating Kelly.
They chat for a bit in the car and Kelly walks away with a smile. “What’d they want? Do you know them?” I ask
“Naw naw, they’re asking if I’m keeping the corner hot.”
“Oh geez, seriously?”
“YUP!” He says, “I guess cause I’m black they assume I am a drug dealer.”
We arrived at the party and entered in the house, walked through to the kitchen. There is duct-taped cardboard flooring below us and people all around, some are playing drinking games on the kitchen table, and some are in the other room watching the hockey games. We walk into the living room and some guy takes out money and pours us a beer from a giant pitcher in his hand. Everyone but Kelly, Adam and I, goes outside. We remain indoors. We talk to the host Alex Bridal for a bit and to some other people we know. I sit on the couch with Kelly and we're watching the Ultimate Fighter on the small TV, we are both kinda buzzed and checking out the asses on the girls in front of us. "Hey man what does this remind you of?" I ask. We both start laughing, remembering that last keg party we went to at the end of our third year. At that keg party we were drunk sitting on the couch checking out the asses in front of us. I decide to see what’s going on outside after I finished my beer.
There is a small porch outside and some reclining chairs, and just in front of those are two kegs with two bags of ice on top of each one. I pour myself a beer and pump the keg tap a bit. It’s still a little foamy, but not too bad. Rory, Mitch, Adrian and Rob are on the grass beside the porch. I make my way to them and step down. “Well I might as well get this out of the way cause it will be only time I’ll be able to do it.” I said. Everyone laughed. They went back to their conversations about home and funny events. I blow on the top of my beer to knock some of the foam out. “Heeeeeeey,” I started to say and doing a cheers with everyone. I kept doing it over and over, so then they started to do the same thing. “Ok alright, that’s enough.” Rory said. Eventually we made our way on the porch when everyone else who was there before us went inside. “How the hell did we score this spot?” Rory asked. “This is like the best spot, right beside the keg.”
We started drinking beer after beer standing near the keg. Tammy came out and took some pictures of us too. Then this guy comes out from the living room just trashed and slurring his speech. “Dooesh anyone have any drugsch?” He says. We all start laughing. Rob offers him some baking soda or laundry detergent. He starts to laugh and goes “If I can snort it I can do it.” His friend’s comes out of the living room and starts laughing “Hey Poopsie, you feeling ok?” One of them asks.
“Yesch, I just want some coke.”
“Yeah you want some drugs eh? I don’t have any.” Starting to laugh.
The rest of the friends start laughing too and saying “Oh Poopsie.” I guess that’s his nickname. After all of us stop laughing at him he looks around with his lazy eyes and says: “Fuck you guys… you’ve changed.” And stumbles into the living room. He trips on the arm of the sofa and crashes face first into the cushions below causing a roar inside.
We went back to our spot on the grass and taking turns peeing on the house. “Heeeeey,” I started again and we did some cheers. We are all feeling quite buzzed now. Poopsie makes his way back outside and asks us where he can go puke. Rob leads him to this outdoor lamp surround by a large flower pot. “Right here man.” He says.
“Thatsch not a bucket.”
“Yes it is, it’s a magic bucket, it has a light.”
“I’m… not going to puke there.”
“Man, this is a good spot to puke.”
His buddy comes out looking for him and leads him to the side of the house where he starts to puke. We start laughing.
They go back inside and then everyone starts to gather out beside the keg. The lift one guy up and put the pouring thing in his mouth and start pumping it in. Alex Bridal is doing the count to see how long the person can handle it. The first guy goes 21 seconds. The next guy is lifted up and he only goes for about 16 seconds before shaking his head to indicated he had enough. “Alright Poopsie! You’re turn!” Someone said.
Poopsie walks up and says “Do this shit.” And they lift him up. Everyone is counting now and the people holding him up are struggling. Somehow his jeans with the boxers slide down to his ankles and he is still drinking the beer with his dong revealed. Everyone roars laughing. One of the guys holding his legs tries to find another spot to hold up Poopsie and he accidentally cups his balls. “Ahh! God!” He says, and let’s go. Poopsie falls to the ground. I’m nearly throwing up at this point laughing so hard. He goes inside and I return his hat to him that fell on the ground beside me.
We all finished our beers and got Kelly, it was time to go to the bar. As we walk down the drive way we see Poopsie in his car trying to start it to drive off and his friends are pulling him out. We just shake our head. What a guy.
We start walking down the neighbourhood towards George street and this guy Evon is following us. Apparently he was some first year. I noticed Adam isn’t with us. “Hey guys, where’s Adam?” I said. Nobody knew or cared. He calls me up on the cell phone and he couldn’t believe we left without him. He asks what bar we’re going to, but I tell him I am not really sure myself. When we did make it to 2nd Floor Lounge there was no line up at the bar and so we all just head upstairs. Evon couldn’t get in though, I guess he had a fake ID. I call up Adam to let him know where we are. We see Jeff the tampon working the coats. “What the hell are you doing? You working here now?” Rob asked.
“Doing a favor for Karem is all man.” He says. “Man I rarely see you guys these days what’s up?”
“Oh you know.” Rob answered.
We went inside the bar and got our drinks. Rory waits patiently at the other end of the bar and no one is coming up to serve him. “Man I’m sober now.” He says. He eventually does get his beer and he gets a shot of Jager with it. I sit in the back room with Mitch and Adrian. It’s all brick walls in here with tables and couches, very dim lighting and a bar at the other end of the room but unattended for, so it is pitch black at that end. “I don’t know whether or not to get a beer, if I do, I may not have enough for pizza later. What do you guys think?”
“Beer.” Mitch says. Adrian has no answer.
I walk to the bar and I notice a tray of chicken nuggets on the table. I grab one and dip it into the BBQ sauce in the middle of the tray. Man, these are good! I run back into the room to tell Mitch and Adrian and they come with me and scarf down some nuggets. A couple black guys exclaim that there are chicken nuggets ‘over there!’ and they come up to it and consume the rest of the tray within seconds. Disappointed that we only got around three we head outside to see what the other guys are up to. We get to the porch and see Rory and Rob on a picnic table. Rory bends over underneath the table and pukes. His eyes water up. “You ok man?” I ask.
“Yeah just all those shots of Jager, and not having anything to eat today.”
He pukes again. We stand outside a little bit more and go back into the bar. I head over to the dance floor and see Kelly dancing with he’s lady at the time and I look around the floor for anyone I know. I leave the scene on the dance floor though and check back with the guys. Mitch and Adrian are back in the back room. I sit with them with my beer. “Where’s the washroom?” Mitch asked.
“Oh just over there man, to your right.”
As he walks away to leave we notice he has puke all along his back.
“What the fuck is that? Puke?” Adrian says.
We both start laughing.
“I think Bob* puked on his back!” Adrian exclaimed.
I went over to get some nachos and then one of the people working at the bar brings out another tray of chicken nuggets. Nobody seems to notice. I scarf down a couple and then go tell Adrian and Rory. Rory just ignores me and goes back to the bar to do shots. No time to convince him. Adrian and I must have consumed 10 each. I feel so full right now but I eat a few more. Ok, that’s enough. I go back to drinking my beer and what not, talking to some people. Rory and Adrian come up to me saying they want to go. “Alright.” I said, and we walked to the enterance. “Wait, where’s Mitch?”
“I don’t know man.” Rory said. “He must have went with Bob to the other bar.”
“What? What other bar?”
“I don’t know man.”
I skim through the bar looking for Mitch, I check the back room, the patio and the washroom.
“Ok Mitch isn’t here, let’s go.”
We leave the bar and walk back home. We stop into Night Kitchen to get some pizza, Rory lends me the cash for a slice. He gets the same one I get, the feta cheese, leek, and spinach. When we walk back Rory will not shut up about the pizza.
“Man this is the best pizza… I have ever had man.”
“It’s good eh?” I said.
“Seriously, this is amazing, I can’t get over it. What is on it again?”
“It’s feta cheese as you know, and it has spinach greens and leek.”
“Man it’s so good, you know the Irish really love leek, I remember having leek soup when I was younger.”
“Oh ya?”
“Yeah man, leek and potatoes, leek soup with beer.”
“Sounds good I guess.” I said.
We get home and we find Rob outside on the porch.
“Hey Rob!” I yell.
“Hey dudes, how’s it going?”
“Not too bad… Hey did Mitch come with you?”
“Mitch? No.”
We all stopped chewing on our pizza.
“Seriously?” Rory asked.
“Yeah I thought he was with you.”
We all roll our eyes and realize that we have to go back. Adam, who just ended up coming back home after the keg party, comes with Adrian and me. We walked to the 2nd Floor Lounge, Adam took an alternate route and stuck to the main roads. When we got to the bar we asked if we could upstairs. We had to wait for people to leave. The bouncer asks if we’re looking for the same guy Scott is looking for, we say yes, and he tells us that Scott is already up there. So we wait outside for Scott. Adrian keeps calling Mitch’s cell phone to see if he’ll answer it. Eventually Adrian starts talking.
“Mitch? Where are you man.” He asks
Silence.
“Trent residence?”
I look in disbelief, the Trent campus is about a 30 minute drive away and is all the way at the north end of town. Adrian turns to me.
“He says he’s at Otonabee residence.”
“How the fuck did he get there?”
Adrian turns to the phone “How did you get there?” He asked.
He turns to me, “Says he got into a taxi cab with some people.”
The bouncer ever so curious looks at me and asks: “Where is he?”
“He’s at the Trent residence.” I answer.
“How the fuck did he get there?”
I go upstairs in the bar to look for Scott who is just about to leave.
“Hey Scott.”
“Hey man, what are you saying? I can’t find Mitch up here.”
“Yeah we called him, he’s at the Trent residence.”
“What? How the fuck did he get there?”
“Hopped in a cab… we’re going to try and get him to take a cab back.”
“Alright man, peace.” He says and goes back into the bar.
I go back downstairs and Adam is coming up to us telling us a story of how he got the DJ to ask for Mitch to come to the DJ booth cause his mom is in the hospital. We tell him he’s at the Trent residence. Take a guess at what he said. So we walk back to our house after telling Mitch how to call a cab and where to take him. I call up my house on my cell phone and Rory answered.
“Hey man, we found Mitch.”
“Where was he?”
“He actually went to the campus residence.”
“How in the fuck did he get there?”
“Followed some people in a cab.”
“What a guy.”
When we got back to our house I talked to Mitch and told him how to get to the library steps because that is where the cab will pick him up. I then call up a cab company and told them where to go and where our place was. Adrian and I sit on the porch talking waiting for Mitch to arrive. After 20 minutes or so a cab comes by and Mitch walks up to the porch. We all had a laugh about the situation.
It was time to fall asleep though because tomorrow is moving day. So I went upstairs and fell asleep.
Ok well fans one last story arc to go.
Peace.
"Nothing right now."
"Wanna go shopping?"
"I gotta go eat right now, then I'm going to school to study."
"Aww come on man, you don't need to study."
"Yes I do, dammit!" He says jokingly.
"Want to go later on?" He asks afterwards.
"Yeah sure."
"Ok see you then."
He gets some stuff from his room and ventures downstairs.
I couldn't wait though, I got changed and got everything ready and went towards the downtown of Peterborough. My first stop was Blue Streak, the local music stop for vinyl records and a vast amount of CDs. I look through the current punk and rock vinyls for anything good. I see some Jack Johnson, a lot of Tom Waits, and various other artists I’d love to buy. I had no money though. I look at the CDs on the wall for some Massive Attack, but did not find the album I wanted. I looked for some Death Cab For Cutie, but there wasn’t a single CD from them. Ok, well time to leave this joint.
I get back outside and stand on the sidewalk looking around. The sun blazing causes ripples to form above the streets like they are leaking propane gas. I squirt my eyes underneath my shades; everything is discoloured yellow and bright like a nineteen seventies Polaroid picture. I continue my walk and make my way to Clumleighs. I look through the SNES section first like always. I overhear Jimmy talking with a customer about pro-wrestling. I make my way over to the PlayStation games too look for a gem, but find none. So I look over at the GameBoy games and look up and greet Jimmy. “How’s it going man?”
“Not too bad.” He says smiling, rocking back and forth.
“What do you think about the Jays this season?” He asks, clearly noticing my hat.
“Oh they’re going to be great this season man, definitely going to check out some games, I tell you best entertainment you can buy for that price.”
“Yeah definitely man, I’m usually there with my puppets and they show me on the big screen.” He says laughing and makes some gesture to tell me it’s wild.
“That’s sick man, they did so much work to that place, it looks great inside.”
“Yeaaahh they did. It is great.”
I leave the store unsatisfied that I didn’t find anything. So I check out the Disc Depot after and look around in their store. This store is like 2 stores down from Chumleighs, and apparently it’s run by an ex-employee. So they had a little war going on between them. Chumleighs has better stuff overall, but you never know what you might find. Low and behold, what do we have here? Legend of Mana for PS1? Near mint? That’s at least 50 bucks US on EBay. I look at the back and see that its $29.99… pretty pricey, but I got it anyways. It was in great condition.
After that I decided I better go home before I spend anymore money. But when I finally reached home and got on my computer Adam returned from school and wanted to make the rounds around Landsdowne and such. So I went along with him. We stop at Staples, FutureShop and whatever is around that area like we have always been doing all year. The same stores, the same routine. This was going to be the last time though. We didn’t treat it as such, and it was just another trip. When we got to FutureShop I look right away at the CDs and so many where available for $9.99 or two for $15 dollars that it was so hard to resist. We managed to escape without buying anything though and went to Reid’s Dairy to get some milk shakes and drove home.
It was so sunny out and hot that Adam and I decided to walk up to Jeff Cards & Comics to do some trading. We go along McDonnell to Monaghan road then we reach the store. I bring out my trades and the guy behind the counter brings out his stuff. We spend a good two hours between us and so after satisfied with our trades we started to walk back. “Hey where does that trail go?” I asked, pointing to this dirt trail leading into woods.
“I don’t know guy.”
“Let’s check it out, might be a shortcut.”
We run across the road and head down the dirt path. It lead us to this hidden playground where a couple of families brought their kids. I look around me checking out the trees and the clouds when I stepped on a stick. The stick got tangled in my legs and piercing my shins. “Fuck.” I muttered.
“What the hell are you doing?” Adam asked.
“The stick speared me man.”
We both look back and the stick is sticking out of the ground.
“How the hell did you do that?”
“I... I don’t know.”
We both laugh.
Finally we start to walk up to our house and there is Rob with his buddies Adrian and Mitch. Rob is raking up the cigarette butts on the ground into a garbage back, with a few pieces of trash as well. We say our hellos, get introduced to one another and then I went inside up to my room to check out the cards I just got. “Hey man, we’re going to Subway, do you wanna come?” Rob asked.
“Yeah man.”
I get my coat and wallet and hop into his Nissan Xterra with his buds. We get to Subway and Rob says he has to go to school now because his exam is in 30 minutes. So Mitch, Adrian and I go into the restaurant. Adrian orders a steak sub, and when the girl asks what he wants on it he says hot peppers, frank’s sauce, and mayo. “Damn man, we got to walk back afterwards.” I said.
“Oh I’ll be fine, I have to have it hot.”
We eat our subs and then walk back along the Rotary trail back home. As we are walking a group of two guys and a girl are walking towards us going in the opposite direction. One of the guys is sticking out his chest and trying to walk like a tough guy. He’s eyeing us down. I’m trying so hard not to laugh. The girl says “hi” to us and we just ignore her. A couple seconds later we burst out laughing. I start to walk like that guy “Look at me, all tough in my American Eagle golf shirt.”
When we get home we all head up to Rob’s loft and I finish the rest of my sub there. I turn on the hockey game and we all watch it. I get bored though because NHL sucks now so I just go downstairs to organize my cards again.
Rory drives up in the big truck. We say hello and what have you and he goes up to Rob’s loft too. When Rob finally got back we all partied up in his room before deciding to go to the 2nd Floor Lounge tonight. But before that Adam has arranged that we all go to his soccer buddies house for a private keg party. Only ten dollars and two kegs. So we all get ready and head out the door. It’s me, Mitch, Adrian, Rob, Rory, Adam and Kelly. We walk down the streets together and stop at the local Macs first so Kelly can some money out. Kelly makes joke about robbing the place, so funny. I hold his beer and he goes inside to use the ATM machine. A Honda Civic sees us and it goes into a parking lot across the street. When Kelly comes out the Honda Civic comes across the street and goes into the Macs parking lot. “Hey you, come here.” The guy in the car says. So Rob starts to walk up. “Not you. Him.” Indicating Kelly.
They chat for a bit in the car and Kelly walks away with a smile. “What’d they want? Do you know them?” I ask
“Naw naw, they’re asking if I’m keeping the corner hot.”
“Oh geez, seriously?”
“YUP!” He says, “I guess cause I’m black they assume I am a drug dealer.”
We arrived at the party and entered in the house, walked through to the kitchen. There is duct-taped cardboard flooring below us and people all around, some are playing drinking games on the kitchen table, and some are in the other room watching the hockey games. We walk into the living room and some guy takes out money and pours us a beer from a giant pitcher in his hand. Everyone but Kelly, Adam and I, goes outside. We remain indoors. We talk to the host Alex Bridal for a bit and to some other people we know. I sit on the couch with Kelly and we're watching the Ultimate Fighter on the small TV, we are both kinda buzzed and checking out the asses on the girls in front of us. "Hey man what does this remind you of?" I ask. We both start laughing, remembering that last keg party we went to at the end of our third year. At that keg party we were drunk sitting on the couch checking out the asses in front of us. I decide to see what’s going on outside after I finished my beer.
There is a small porch outside and some reclining chairs, and just in front of those are two kegs with two bags of ice on top of each one. I pour myself a beer and pump the keg tap a bit. It’s still a little foamy, but not too bad. Rory, Mitch, Adrian and Rob are on the grass beside the porch. I make my way to them and step down. “Well I might as well get this out of the way cause it will be only time I’ll be able to do it.” I said. Everyone laughed. They went back to their conversations about home and funny events. I blow on the top of my beer to knock some of the foam out. “Heeeeeeey,” I started to say and doing a cheers with everyone. I kept doing it over and over, so then they started to do the same thing. “Ok alright, that’s enough.” Rory said. Eventually we made our way on the porch when everyone else who was there before us went inside. “How the hell did we score this spot?” Rory asked. “This is like the best spot, right beside the keg.”
We started drinking beer after beer standing near the keg. Tammy came out and took some pictures of us too. Then this guy comes out from the living room just trashed and slurring his speech. “Dooesh anyone have any drugsch?” He says. We all start laughing. Rob offers him some baking soda or laundry detergent. He starts to laugh and goes “If I can snort it I can do it.” His friend’s comes out of the living room and starts laughing “Hey Poopsie, you feeling ok?” One of them asks.
“Yesch, I just want some coke.”
“Yeah you want some drugs eh? I don’t have any.” Starting to laugh.
The rest of the friends start laughing too and saying “Oh Poopsie.” I guess that’s his nickname. After all of us stop laughing at him he looks around with his lazy eyes and says: “Fuck you guys… you’ve changed.” And stumbles into the living room. He trips on the arm of the sofa and crashes face first into the cushions below causing a roar inside.
We went back to our spot on the grass and taking turns peeing on the house. “Heeeeey,” I started again and we did some cheers. We are all feeling quite buzzed now. Poopsie makes his way back outside and asks us where he can go puke. Rob leads him to this outdoor lamp surround by a large flower pot. “Right here man.” He says.
“Thatsch not a bucket.”
“Yes it is, it’s a magic bucket, it has a light.”
“I’m… not going to puke there.”
“Man, this is a good spot to puke.”
His buddy comes out looking for him and leads him to the side of the house where he starts to puke. We start laughing.
They go back inside and then everyone starts to gather out beside the keg. The lift one guy up and put the pouring thing in his mouth and start pumping it in. Alex Bridal is doing the count to see how long the person can handle it. The first guy goes 21 seconds. The next guy is lifted up and he only goes for about 16 seconds before shaking his head to indicated he had enough. “Alright Poopsie! You’re turn!” Someone said.
Poopsie walks up and says “Do this shit.” And they lift him up. Everyone is counting now and the people holding him up are struggling. Somehow his jeans with the boxers slide down to his ankles and he is still drinking the beer with his dong revealed. Everyone roars laughing. One of the guys holding his legs tries to find another spot to hold up Poopsie and he accidentally cups his balls. “Ahh! God!” He says, and let’s go. Poopsie falls to the ground. I’m nearly throwing up at this point laughing so hard. He goes inside and I return his hat to him that fell on the ground beside me.
We all finished our beers and got Kelly, it was time to go to the bar. As we walk down the drive way we see Poopsie in his car trying to start it to drive off and his friends are pulling him out. We just shake our head. What a guy.
We start walking down the neighbourhood towards George street and this guy Evon is following us. Apparently he was some first year. I noticed Adam isn’t with us. “Hey guys, where’s Adam?” I said. Nobody knew or cared. He calls me up on the cell phone and he couldn’t believe we left without him. He asks what bar we’re going to, but I tell him I am not really sure myself. When we did make it to 2nd Floor Lounge there was no line up at the bar and so we all just head upstairs. Evon couldn’t get in though, I guess he had a fake ID. I call up Adam to let him know where we are. We see Jeff the tampon working the coats. “What the hell are you doing? You working here now?” Rob asked.
“Doing a favor for Karem is all man.” He says. “Man I rarely see you guys these days what’s up?”
“Oh you know.” Rob answered.
We went inside the bar and got our drinks. Rory waits patiently at the other end of the bar and no one is coming up to serve him. “Man I’m sober now.” He says. He eventually does get his beer and he gets a shot of Jager with it. I sit in the back room with Mitch and Adrian. It’s all brick walls in here with tables and couches, very dim lighting and a bar at the other end of the room but unattended for, so it is pitch black at that end. “I don’t know whether or not to get a beer, if I do, I may not have enough for pizza later. What do you guys think?”
“Beer.” Mitch says. Adrian has no answer.
I walk to the bar and I notice a tray of chicken nuggets on the table. I grab one and dip it into the BBQ sauce in the middle of the tray. Man, these are good! I run back into the room to tell Mitch and Adrian and they come with me and scarf down some nuggets. A couple black guys exclaim that there are chicken nuggets ‘over there!’ and they come up to it and consume the rest of the tray within seconds. Disappointed that we only got around three we head outside to see what the other guys are up to. We get to the porch and see Rory and Rob on a picnic table. Rory bends over underneath the table and pukes. His eyes water up. “You ok man?” I ask.
“Yeah just all those shots of Jager, and not having anything to eat today.”
He pukes again. We stand outside a little bit more and go back into the bar. I head over to the dance floor and see Kelly dancing with he’s lady at the time and I look around the floor for anyone I know. I leave the scene on the dance floor though and check back with the guys. Mitch and Adrian are back in the back room. I sit with them with my beer. “Where’s the washroom?” Mitch asked.
“Oh just over there man, to your right.”
As he walks away to leave we notice he has puke all along his back.
“What the fuck is that? Puke?” Adrian says.
We both start laughing.
“I think Bob* puked on his back!” Adrian exclaimed.
I went over to get some nachos and then one of the people working at the bar brings out another tray of chicken nuggets. Nobody seems to notice. I scarf down a couple and then go tell Adrian and Rory. Rory just ignores me and goes back to the bar to do shots. No time to convince him. Adrian and I must have consumed 10 each. I feel so full right now but I eat a few more. Ok, that’s enough. I go back to drinking my beer and what not, talking to some people. Rory and Adrian come up to me saying they want to go. “Alright.” I said, and we walked to the enterance. “Wait, where’s Mitch?”
“I don’t know man.” Rory said. “He must have went with Bob to the other bar.”
“What? What other bar?”
“I don’t know man.”
I skim through the bar looking for Mitch, I check the back room, the patio and the washroom.
“Ok Mitch isn’t here, let’s go.”
We leave the bar and walk back home. We stop into Night Kitchen to get some pizza, Rory lends me the cash for a slice. He gets the same one I get, the feta cheese, leek, and spinach. When we walk back Rory will not shut up about the pizza.
“Man this is the best pizza… I have ever had man.”
“It’s good eh?” I said.
“Seriously, this is amazing, I can’t get over it. What is on it again?”
“It’s feta cheese as you know, and it has spinach greens and leek.”
“Man it’s so good, you know the Irish really love leek, I remember having leek soup when I was younger.”
“Oh ya?”
“Yeah man, leek and potatoes, leek soup with beer.”
“Sounds good I guess.” I said.
We get home and we find Rob outside on the porch.
“Hey Rob!” I yell.
“Hey dudes, how’s it going?”
“Not too bad… Hey did Mitch come with you?”
“Mitch? No.”
We all stopped chewing on our pizza.
“Seriously?” Rory asked.
“Yeah I thought he was with you.”
We all roll our eyes and realize that we have to go back. Adam, who just ended up coming back home after the keg party, comes with Adrian and me. We walked to the 2nd Floor Lounge, Adam took an alternate route and stuck to the main roads. When we got to the bar we asked if we could upstairs. We had to wait for people to leave. The bouncer asks if we’re looking for the same guy Scott is looking for, we say yes, and he tells us that Scott is already up there. So we wait outside for Scott. Adrian keeps calling Mitch’s cell phone to see if he’ll answer it. Eventually Adrian starts talking.
“Mitch? Where are you man.” He asks
Silence.
“Trent residence?”
I look in disbelief, the Trent campus is about a 30 minute drive away and is all the way at the north end of town. Adrian turns to me.
“He says he’s at Otonabee residence.”
“How the fuck did he get there?”
Adrian turns to the phone “How did you get there?” He asked.
He turns to me, “Says he got into a taxi cab with some people.”
The bouncer ever so curious looks at me and asks: “Where is he?”
“He’s at the Trent residence.” I answer.
“How the fuck did he get there?”
I go upstairs in the bar to look for Scott who is just about to leave.
“Hey Scott.”
“Hey man, what are you saying? I can’t find Mitch up here.”
“Yeah we called him, he’s at the Trent residence.”
“What? How the fuck did he get there?”
“Hopped in a cab… we’re going to try and get him to take a cab back.”
“Alright man, peace.” He says and goes back into the bar.
I go back downstairs and Adam is coming up to us telling us a story of how he got the DJ to ask for Mitch to come to the DJ booth cause his mom is in the hospital. We tell him he’s at the Trent residence. Take a guess at what he said. So we walk back to our house after telling Mitch how to call a cab and where to take him. I call up my house on my cell phone and Rory answered.
“Hey man, we found Mitch.”
“Where was he?”
“He actually went to the campus residence.”
“How in the fuck did he get there?”
“Followed some people in a cab.”
“What a guy.”
When we got back to our house I talked to Mitch and told him how to get to the library steps because that is where the cab will pick him up. I then call up a cab company and told them where to go and where our place was. Adrian and I sit on the porch talking waiting for Mitch to arrive. After 20 minutes or so a cab comes by and Mitch walks up to the porch. We all had a laugh about the situation.
It was time to fall asleep though because tomorrow is moving day. So I went upstairs and fell asleep.
Ok well fans one last story arc to go.
Peace.
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