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Ooooookay. Got my "pump up" music on.
Random: I remember when I was 16 or 17, my Dad was digging into me about how me and Mom go at it all the time. But he told me "No matter what, you stick to your guns. I'm gotta give you credit, I'm proud of you for that." I really took that to heart.
Storytime:
Club Hell adventures:
So I was on R&R from Iraq. Having a good time, hanging around. As usual, me and Ben are hanging out, we were gonna go to the long fabled Club Hell that everyone raved about and I had never been to yet. Ben was going out with Alicia at the time. We had hung out a few times previous, so we knew each other alright, she's was cool in my book. And then fuckin' Ben invited Mike to tag along, haha! I was like "No you didn't!" but it was cool, he wanted to see me, it had been awhile. And then Alicia asked if she could bring her friend along. I was all for it, add another girl to the mix, and if it came down to it, I knew I could outplay Mike. Haha. So we're at Ben's. Mike shows up, then Alicia. We're waiting on the mystery friend. She shows up, and Alicia introduces her as her friend Karissa. In my head I'm like "Wowwwww, she's a hottie." Haha, so as the introductions are being made, Mike's already weirding out the girls, he's just being too corny or something. I don't know. So we get into the car, and I jump into my usual TC position. Then right as we're about to take off, I remembered I should've surrendered it to the girlfriend, Alicia. Now me and her get along great, and we seem to talk to eaach other without talking. So I look back at her in the mirror and she's looking at me knowing exactly what I was thinking. And there she was, the poor girl, wedged in between Karissa and Mike, pressing herself against Karissa trying to distance herself as much from mike as she possibly could given the physical restraints and not being obnoxious about it. She's like "Tayyyyylooooor!" and pouts at me. I'm like "Okay okay, I owe you a favor. My bad." We talked about it later on and realized Ben, Karissa and Mike probably had no idea what we were talking about. I remember we get to the club, and parking was real tight. So me, still in Iraq mode, get out and groundguide. Then I remember everyone's pilling out of the car, and Mike's over there trying to be the knight in shining armor, so he's holding the door open for Alicia. But since we were parked in so tight, he's not giving her any room to step out. She like inches her way out, Mike thinks he's the man, and I'm just watching the whole thing, ammused. Alicia just rolled her eyes at me. We get inside and the place was rocking pretty good. We end up kind of taking over one corner of the club, really close to the dj, and it had tables and a 3 person couch. Pretty good setup. Everybody starts getting some drinks in them. 3 beers in, Mike's getting kind of dumb, everyone's just kind of blowing him off. Music starts getting real good and I'm starting to really dig it. I go into overdrive, and start naming every song within the first 5 seconds, along with reciting the lyrics and naming at least one little-known fact about each band that comes up. And to my amazement, Karissa's keeping up with me for the most part. We get to talking, and come to find out she's big into 80's music. There she is going word for word with me to The Cars and Eddie Money. I couldn't believe it! So everyone's getting pretty buzzed, I know I was. Karissa and I were really hitting it off. Somehow it ended up being me, Karissa, Alicia, and Ben all sitting in that 3 person couch. Then the girls decided they want to do out on the dancefloor and dance. Karissa tries dragging me out, but I tell her no way. Then Alicia starts begging too so I allow myself to be coerced into dancing, even though I didn't have the slightest idea what I was doing. 2 or 3 songs into it everything's going good. Then Karissa gets real excited and runs up to this guy and hugs him. I'm like, who's the hell is this guy stealing my thunder over here?! Karissa walks up to me and says "Taylor, I want you to meet my boyfriend!"
DUDE. I was fucking PISSED. I just didn't know exactly what to do. Somehow I kept my cool. I said hi to the guy, shook his hand. Then I went right back up to the table and grabbed my beer, Alicia watching the whole time. I stormed off, and did a few laps around the club. I was fucking frustrated. I kept trying to shoulder people as I was walking around, staring people down, I was LOOKING for a fight. No fights to be found, so I went back to our corner and kept drinking. Alicia, reading my mind as usual, is like, "You know, just because her boyfriend showed up didn't mean she wanted to stop dancing with you..." Pissed off and as drunk as I was, I cut her off, I was like "Yea what the FUCK ever!" So Karissa ends up going home with her boyfriend, Chris, I think his name was, and the remaining 4 of us go back in Ben's car. I remember Angels & Airwaves was playing and I was really liking it, probably because I was sobering up and calming down. I remember mike said some stupid-ass thing that ticked me off in the car too.
So next Friday rolls around and we're off to Hell again. This time it was kind of boy's night out though, it was me, Ben, Dave, and Kevin, with Alicia being the only girl. We get there and it's rockin' again, Kevin wants to hit the dance floor, I go along with him to play wingman. Haha, we're dancing with these two girls and the lighting wasn't the best so I couldn't see too well. There ends up being a 3 foot space between me and one of the girls, and all of a sudden she's like "OMG!" and jumps on me and hugs me. I'm shocked, I don't know what the fuck's going on. It's Sam Gabrielson! I was drunk, so the first thing I say to her (admittedly not too smooth) was: "You're fucking 18?!" I couldn't believe she was in the club. Haha. So we hung out for a bit and caught up, then I went back up to our usual spot. A few minutes later, someone jumps on my back and hugs me. It's Karissa! I was surprised to say the least, but in my head I was thinking, "Man, I don't want to even bother with her, she's got a boyfriend." Even so, I couldn't help but start chatting it up with her. Her boyfriend showed up again, but this time I was cool with it, we even bullshitted a bit about the Sox. I kept thinking though, how the fuck did that fat fuck score her? Anyways, we leave, and we're in the car. I remember Ben asking what we all wanted to listen to. Alicia chimes in with "Angels & Airwaves!" I second the motion, so he goes to put the CD in. Then he's like "Wait. NOPE. My car, my choice." and withdraws it. I start laughing my ass off, but Alicia was pissed. Haha.
I go back to Iraq. 3 weeks later, Ben and Alicia break up. I come back home a few months ago. Made plans to hang out with Alicia and Karissa but they fell through. I was pissy that night. Right after I leave this last time, Karissa broke up with her boyfriend. Now? I dunno. Me and Karissa talk all the time online. For like hours on end. It's crazy, we confide in each other, she's told me stuff she's never told her boyfriend, I tell her about stuff not many people know about. I got her her phone number. She wants to hang out. We'll see. I'm probably getting way ahead of myself. I have a bad habit for falling for girls when drinking is involved. So we'll see.
Haha. I remember at Hell Ben went away for drinks, and Alicia's like "Will Ben ever do anything to hurt me?" We're both drunk. I'm like "No, the kid wouldn't hurt a fly. Don't you worry about a thing." 3 weeks later...
"I don't do this whole 'I was fucking you for three weeks straight now let's be friends' shit."
LMAO. When she told me that, I had to pretend to be all concerned and "OMG that's awful!" but inside I was laughing my ass off. It's really a terrible thing to say. But it's funny.
Worst date ever:
Lindsey's one of my best friend. She's got a cousin Chris, we're really good friends also. First time I ever met Chris was at Linds' graduation party. It was at his house b/c he lives on a lake. It seems like a whole different lifetime ago. I had just graduated, still had my hair and everything. So a bunch of people were swimming, and there was this really beautiful girl in the water. I was checking her out from the deck. I'm thinking to myself "Wow! Who's this girl?" Turns out, she's Chris' girlfriend, Collette. I meet her, we hit it off, then off I go to the Army. I stay in touch with both Chris and Collette. They're both a year younger than me. I came home Mar '06, and there was lot of drama going on between them. I guess there was a pregnancy scare for a bit. I got the call from Chris' mom, wanting to know if I knew anything about it. I guess everyone knew we were close and assumed she would confide in me. No pregnancy though. Then come to find out Chris had been cheating on her. (I got to give Chris credit, the kid goes through girlfriends like it's his business. And at 19, he can go into any liquor store, get what he wants, and walk out, no questions asked. He lives a charmed life. It must be because he was born on St. Patty's Day, he's got some uncanny luck.) Anyways, they split up. Collette and myself get closer, and we end up going out this one night. I felt kind of bad seeing they had broke up only a few weeks earlier, I was the "guy she depended and leaned on", and I had no intention of ever getting into it with Chris, we're really close friends, even to this day. But anyways, we met up, and she looked as good as ever. She had this pink ballcap on, I dig when chicks wear hats for some reason. Anyways, the plan was to go and spend a night down in Newport. Problem was, it was March so not much was open. We ended up walking through the town just talking and sightseeing. It must have been spring break now that I think of it, there were alot of kids out. So there we were walking, arms intertwinned, minding our own business, and this kid walks up to us. He had to have been a college kid, and he was obviously drunk. He's like "Hey mannnnnn, you wanna hear a song?!" Now, we've all been there, so I was cool with him. Didn't get lippy or anything. I just told him we were good, and we kept walking. 5 or so minutes later, he caught up to us, once again asking if we want to hear his song. So I start getting a little ticked. I tell him once again we didn't want to hear it, still calm. But this time he followed us, and wouldn't leave us alone. So I'm like "Listen pal, you can take your song, and shove it up your ass sideways." So this dude gets allllll worked up, starts jumping all over the place, trying to get me to fight. I'm with Collette, so I don't want to get into it, I just kept her a bit closer and we walked away. But this dude wouldn't stop talking shit, it reminded me of the Digga scenario. So I turned around and said, "It's funny how you keep talking shit as I walk away." Collette tugs on my shirt, so I turned back around and kept walking away. Then the kid yells down the street "Yah. That's what I thought. Fuck you AND your girlfriend!"
I stopped dead in my tracks. I was PISSED. He could've said what he wanted about me, but he didn't have to bring Collette into it, especially in front of everyone out in the street like that. So I get fuckin mad, I fuckin roll up my sleeves and start walking over to that mothafucka, ready to rumble. Collette's got me in a bear hug from behind, pulling me back, but I'm just dragging her along with me. I was about to beatt him around a bit and throw him right into the water, we were right next to the docks on the ocean. Some cold salt water sure would've sobered him up and made him re-think his position! Collette started to get forceful, she's like "Taylor! NO!" Hearing my name snapped me out of it, and I allowed her to steer me around and we just walked away. But the rest of the night was ruined. We continued to wak around, but I wasn't saying anything, I was still thinking about that kid, and letting him get away with insulting Collette. She asked me what's wrong, and of course I told her I was good. She told me it had to be something, I was all red in the face. I was so angry I was blushing about it, even 10 minutes later. We end up leaving Newport, not really having said anything. She told me not to worry about that kid, he wasn't worth the trouble. But of course I was. And then my dad called me up. Now, me and Dad get along great, but that night we really got into it with each other. That was the first night I ever swore at him. We ended up getting into like a 30 minute argument over the phone. It got so bad that Collette got lost driving and I didn't even fucking notice. The night was completely ruined. Of course Collette told me over and over everything was fine, she was glad I didn't get into a fight with that guy. But to this day I regret not putting that punk in his place. Honestly. I'm usually just a shit talker, but I'm mature and I don't pick fights. But I'll never forgive myself for walking away that time. Now Collette's up in college in Rochester, dating some 24 year old, and me and Chris hang out all the time whenever I'm home, we're closer now than ever.
So. That's about it for tonight. Plenty more to come.
Random: I remember when I was 16 or 17, my Dad was digging into me about how me and Mom go at it all the time. But he told me "No matter what, you stick to your guns. I'm gotta give you credit, I'm proud of you for that." I really took that to heart.
Storytime:
Club Hell adventures:
So I was on R&R from Iraq. Having a good time, hanging around. As usual, me and Ben are hanging out, we were gonna go to the long fabled Club Hell that everyone raved about and I had never been to yet. Ben was going out with Alicia at the time. We had hung out a few times previous, so we knew each other alright, she's was cool in my book. And then fuckin' Ben invited Mike to tag along, haha! I was like "No you didn't!" but it was cool, he wanted to see me, it had been awhile. And then Alicia asked if she could bring her friend along. I was all for it, add another girl to the mix, and if it came down to it, I knew I could outplay Mike. Haha. So we're at Ben's. Mike shows up, then Alicia. We're waiting on the mystery friend. She shows up, and Alicia introduces her as her friend Karissa. In my head I'm like "Wowwwww, she's a hottie." Haha, so as the introductions are being made, Mike's already weirding out the girls, he's just being too corny or something. I don't know. So we get into the car, and I jump into my usual TC position. Then right as we're about to take off, I remembered I should've surrendered it to the girlfriend, Alicia. Now me and her get along great, and we seem to talk to eaach other without talking. So I look back at her in the mirror and she's looking at me knowing exactly what I was thinking. And there she was, the poor girl, wedged in between Karissa and Mike, pressing herself against Karissa trying to distance herself as much from mike as she possibly could given the physical restraints and not being obnoxious about it. She's like "Tayyyyylooooor!" and pouts at me. I'm like "Okay okay, I owe you a favor. My bad." We talked about it later on and realized Ben, Karissa and Mike probably had no idea what we were talking about. I remember we get to the club, and parking was real tight. So me, still in Iraq mode, get out and groundguide. Then I remember everyone's pilling out of the car, and Mike's over there trying to be the knight in shining armor, so he's holding the door open for Alicia. But since we were parked in so tight, he's not giving her any room to step out. She like inches her way out, Mike thinks he's the man, and I'm just watching the whole thing, ammused. Alicia just rolled her eyes at me. We get inside and the place was rocking pretty good. We end up kind of taking over one corner of the club, really close to the dj, and it had tables and a 3 person couch. Pretty good setup. Everybody starts getting some drinks in them. 3 beers in, Mike's getting kind of dumb, everyone's just kind of blowing him off. Music starts getting real good and I'm starting to really dig it. I go into overdrive, and start naming every song within the first 5 seconds, along with reciting the lyrics and naming at least one little-known fact about each band that comes up. And to my amazement, Karissa's keeping up with me for the most part. We get to talking, and come to find out she's big into 80's music. There she is going word for word with me to The Cars and Eddie Money. I couldn't believe it! So everyone's getting pretty buzzed, I know I was. Karissa and I were really hitting it off. Somehow it ended up being me, Karissa, Alicia, and Ben all sitting in that 3 person couch. Then the girls decided they want to do out on the dancefloor and dance. Karissa tries dragging me out, but I tell her no way. Then Alicia starts begging too so I allow myself to be coerced into dancing, even though I didn't have the slightest idea what I was doing. 2 or 3 songs into it everything's going good. Then Karissa gets real excited and runs up to this guy and hugs him. I'm like, who's the hell is this guy stealing my thunder over here?! Karissa walks up to me and says "Taylor, I want you to meet my boyfriend!"
DUDE. I was fucking PISSED. I just didn't know exactly what to do. Somehow I kept my cool. I said hi to the guy, shook his hand. Then I went right back up to the table and grabbed my beer, Alicia watching the whole time. I stormed off, and did a few laps around the club. I was fucking frustrated. I kept trying to shoulder people as I was walking around, staring people down, I was LOOKING for a fight. No fights to be found, so I went back to our corner and kept drinking. Alicia, reading my mind as usual, is like, "You know, just because her boyfriend showed up didn't mean she wanted to stop dancing with you..." Pissed off and as drunk as I was, I cut her off, I was like "Yea what the FUCK ever!" So Karissa ends up going home with her boyfriend, Chris, I think his name was, and the remaining 4 of us go back in Ben's car. I remember Angels & Airwaves was playing and I was really liking it, probably because I was sobering up and calming down. I remember mike said some stupid-ass thing that ticked me off in the car too.
So next Friday rolls around and we're off to Hell again. This time it was kind of boy's night out though, it was me, Ben, Dave, and Kevin, with Alicia being the only girl. We get there and it's rockin' again, Kevin wants to hit the dance floor, I go along with him to play wingman. Haha, we're dancing with these two girls and the lighting wasn't the best so I couldn't see too well. There ends up being a 3 foot space between me and one of the girls, and all of a sudden she's like "OMG!" and jumps on me and hugs me. I'm shocked, I don't know what the fuck's going on. It's Sam Gabrielson! I was drunk, so the first thing I say to her (admittedly not too smooth) was: "You're fucking 18?!" I couldn't believe she was in the club. Haha. So we hung out for a bit and caught up, then I went back up to our usual spot. A few minutes later, someone jumps on my back and hugs me. It's Karissa! I was surprised to say the least, but in my head I was thinking, "Man, I don't want to even bother with her, she's got a boyfriend." Even so, I couldn't help but start chatting it up with her. Her boyfriend showed up again, but this time I was cool with it, we even bullshitted a bit about the Sox. I kept thinking though, how the fuck did that fat fuck score her? Anyways, we leave, and we're in the car. I remember Ben asking what we all wanted to listen to. Alicia chimes in with "Angels & Airwaves!" I second the motion, so he goes to put the CD in. Then he's like "Wait. NOPE. My car, my choice." and withdraws it. I start laughing my ass off, but Alicia was pissed. Haha.
I go back to Iraq. 3 weeks later, Ben and Alicia break up. I come back home a few months ago. Made plans to hang out with Alicia and Karissa but they fell through. I was pissy that night. Right after I leave this last time, Karissa broke up with her boyfriend. Now? I dunno. Me and Karissa talk all the time online. For like hours on end. It's crazy, we confide in each other, she's told me stuff she's never told her boyfriend, I tell her about stuff not many people know about. I got her her phone number. She wants to hang out. We'll see. I'm probably getting way ahead of myself. I have a bad habit for falling for girls when drinking is involved. So we'll see.
Haha. I remember at Hell Ben went away for drinks, and Alicia's like "Will Ben ever do anything to hurt me?" We're both drunk. I'm like "No, the kid wouldn't hurt a fly. Don't you worry about a thing." 3 weeks later...
"I don't do this whole 'I was fucking you for three weeks straight now let's be friends' shit."
LMAO. When she told me that, I had to pretend to be all concerned and "OMG that's awful!" but inside I was laughing my ass off. It's really a terrible thing to say. But it's funny.
Worst date ever:
Lindsey's one of my best friend. She's got a cousin Chris, we're really good friends also. First time I ever met Chris was at Linds' graduation party. It was at his house b/c he lives on a lake. It seems like a whole different lifetime ago. I had just graduated, still had my hair and everything. So a bunch of people were swimming, and there was this really beautiful girl in the water. I was checking her out from the deck. I'm thinking to myself "Wow! Who's this girl?" Turns out, she's Chris' girlfriend, Collette. I meet her, we hit it off, then off I go to the Army. I stay in touch with both Chris and Collette. They're both a year younger than me. I came home Mar '06, and there was lot of drama going on between them. I guess there was a pregnancy scare for a bit. I got the call from Chris' mom, wanting to know if I knew anything about it. I guess everyone knew we were close and assumed she would confide in me. No pregnancy though. Then come to find out Chris had been cheating on her. (I got to give Chris credit, the kid goes through girlfriends like it's his business. And at 19, he can go into any liquor store, get what he wants, and walk out, no questions asked. He lives a charmed life. It must be because he was born on St. Patty's Day, he's got some uncanny luck.) Anyways, they split up. Collette and myself get closer, and we end up going out this one night. I felt kind of bad seeing they had broke up only a few weeks earlier, I was the "guy she depended and leaned on", and I had no intention of ever getting into it with Chris, we're really close friends, even to this day. But anyways, we met up, and she looked as good as ever. She had this pink ballcap on, I dig when chicks wear hats for some reason. Anyways, the plan was to go and spend a night down in Newport. Problem was, it was March so not much was open. We ended up walking through the town just talking and sightseeing. It must have been spring break now that I think of it, there were alot of kids out. So there we were walking, arms intertwinned, minding our own business, and this kid walks up to us. He had to have been a college kid, and he was obviously drunk. He's like "Hey mannnnnn, you wanna hear a song?!" Now, we've all been there, so I was cool with him. Didn't get lippy or anything. I just told him we were good, and we kept walking. 5 or so minutes later, he caught up to us, once again asking if we want to hear his song. So I start getting a little ticked. I tell him once again we didn't want to hear it, still calm. But this time he followed us, and wouldn't leave us alone. So I'm like "Listen pal, you can take your song, and shove it up your ass sideways." So this dude gets allllll worked up, starts jumping all over the place, trying to get me to fight. I'm with Collette, so I don't want to get into it, I just kept her a bit closer and we walked away. But this dude wouldn't stop talking shit, it reminded me of the Digga scenario. So I turned around and said, "It's funny how you keep talking shit as I walk away." Collette tugs on my shirt, so I turned back around and kept walking away. Then the kid yells down the street "Yah. That's what I thought. Fuck you AND your girlfriend!"
I stopped dead in my tracks. I was PISSED. He could've said what he wanted about me, but he didn't have to bring Collette into it, especially in front of everyone out in the street like that. So I get fuckin mad, I fuckin roll up my sleeves and start walking over to that mothafucka, ready to rumble. Collette's got me in a bear hug from behind, pulling me back, but I'm just dragging her along with me. I was about to beatt him around a bit and throw him right into the water, we were right next to the docks on the ocean. Some cold salt water sure would've sobered him up and made him re-think his position! Collette started to get forceful, she's like "Taylor! NO!" Hearing my name snapped me out of it, and I allowed her to steer me around and we just walked away. But the rest of the night was ruined. We continued to wak around, but I wasn't saying anything, I was still thinking about that kid, and letting him get away with insulting Collette. She asked me what's wrong, and of course I told her I was good. She told me it had to be something, I was all red in the face. I was so angry I was blushing about it, even 10 minutes later. We end up leaving Newport, not really having said anything. She told me not to worry about that kid, he wasn't worth the trouble. But of course I was. And then my dad called me up. Now, me and Dad get along great, but that night we really got into it with each other. That was the first night I ever swore at him. We ended up getting into like a 30 minute argument over the phone. It got so bad that Collette got lost driving and I didn't even fucking notice. The night was completely ruined. Of course Collette told me over and over everything was fine, she was glad I didn't get into a fight with that guy. But to this day I regret not putting that punk in his place. Honestly. I'm usually just a shit talker, but I'm mature and I don't pick fights. But I'll never forgive myself for walking away that time. Now Collette's up in college in Rochester, dating some 24 year old, and me and Chris hang out all the time whenever I'm home, we're closer now than ever.
So. That's about it for tonight. Plenty more to come.