2000-06-24 - friday nite, feelin the wind in


me and stefan piled into jeff's gold '79 catalina, playin some bob dylan as we rode into the far northern suburbs. my god, what a preserved piece of americana. there was also the House of Pancakes, House of Furniture, House of Glass Blocks � even the movie theatre had these weird leather furniture pieces from like, the 50s.

ah yes, we watched Me, Myself, & Irene. the movie was fine, til near the end when the film got out of focus. jeff and stefan decided to complain, and so we went to the projection room. twas empty! so we hung out in there for a few minutes, probably longer than we should have. the door said "fire exit only" in tape, and we added the words "lazy projectionist here" to it in pen.

then (after discovering stefan left the window down) we cruised, looking for a decent place to eat. after passing a hitchiker (dammit i think we shoulda picked him up!) and some weird places, we ended up going to Jewel Osco and some pizza place. after purchasing random food products (baked goods, chocolate peanut butter, blue corn chips, fig newtons, and some yoo hoo) we decided to picnic at the local forest preserve.

lo and behold � jeff locked the keys in the car with the car still running. uy � *slaps hand to forehead*

so we are sorta panicked � stefan makes smart alecky comments and i nervously join in. jeff is sorta freaked out as well, obviously more so than us, since he can't let his parents know he had friends in the car with him. but somehow, since there's no immediate danger, no one was THAT worried. stefan stayed with the car as me and jeff looked for help. after getting no elp from anyone, we decided to look for some cops and then maybe take up one guy's offer of a cell phone.

*bAm!* stefan comes running up to us and says "i found a coat hanger!" (oh man � leave it to stefan to kick around the dirt and magically find what we need). in less than 60 seconds, stefan opens the car! and jeff had just installed special safety locks too! stefan is da MAN! woo! much group hugging occurred, and we partook in celebratory blue corn chips and yoo hoo. cheers to stefan, new personal hero! (the pita bread sucked ass, so we played frisbee with it).

after we stop by the american science surplus store, (and discovered jeff left the headlights on) and i offer jeff $5 to steal the tree-shaped air freshener from some car that had the window down, but he wouldn't. i go home and � i am locked out of the house. uy � whatever, i went to tae kwon do anyway and my mom was home after class. tomorrow i have guitar. wish it started next week instead, so i can take my tae kwon do promotional test. oh well.


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