Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Memberies

You know, it's sad, but the only truly outrageous happenings from our collective childhood I can think of are about me. Not as good fodder for sibling online chat, I admit, but I'd like to share a couple memories...

Me, arguing with a clown at somebody's birthday party in Panama. He was so annoyed that I was giving away all his little magic tricks that he played a little trick on me, the end result of which was that water, purportedly pee, came rushing down all over my hands in an embarrassing manner in front of a whole slew of kids.

Me, playing with Miss Debbie's pet alligator, which chomped on my finger and wouldn't let go. And after that grueling experience, I got yelled at by mom!! Unbelievable...

Me, stopping on the side of road at the end of Brewer Circle and kicking Shannon out of the car for not wanting to listen to Christian radio.

Me, rear-ending someone while I was driving to Bruner Middle School looking for either Adena or Anna (I don't remember which). One of you was walking on the side of the road, and I was looking for you, and the guy in front of me just stopped and I slammed right into him. Then I peeled out, took off and threw my french fries at him to throw him off my course, and he pulled out his Taser and shot it at the back bumper of to Roller Skate but it bounced off and hit the kid next to the car and an ambulance had to be called and the kid almost died and still has electrically-induced delusions and is on Zoloft...
(Okay, only the 1st 2 sentences were true. I wuz jus' trying to spice up my boring life a bit.)

Julian is singing my song.

Lovies!!
Caryn

11 comments:

Shannon said...

I forgot about that alligator. Yikes. Crystal Wise's pet pot-bellied pig (yeah) bit me on the ankle and I wouldn't put my feet on the ground while I was there anymore, I would run to the couch and pull my feet up.

And you got in trouble for kicking me out, hehe (even though I think you almost got in an accident while we were battling for control of the radio). That was when the "whoever's driving picks the music" rule was instituted.

And I remember a certain evening when Caryn and I were driving home, after 11 (the wierd curfew they made for 16 yr olds), she was speeding, didn't have her license, and was pulled over. Somehow she didn't get a ticket (because she cried, that's how) and the cop asked me if I would be able to drive home. I was only 15, it was such an ego boost for me.

Shannon said...

I should say, didn't have her license with her. She had it somewhere.

Carynanne said...

Yes! We were coming home from Rayna's house. And we were on Hollywood Blvd less than a mile from. Commie cops.
Oh, and Adena, Lara just kicked Julian in the head, so he and Orion will have stories to swap later :)

Carynanne said...

from home, that is.

Anna Farley said...

I don't think that you ever drove me home from Bruner, Caryn. You were in college at that point. See, I walked home from Bruner...uphill both ways...IN THE SNOW!! Okay, I thought I would try to make my story more interesting, too, but, uh, it didn't work. *shrug*

Colleen said...

I remember all of those (the true ones, at least!). I can't imagine why you would remember what happened to someone else unless it impacted you, so it's not really sad; it's just life.

I remember the clown; it was at a birthday party at Miss Debbie's house. He really made me mad with the stunt he pulled on you. I thought it was pretty cool that you were figuring out all of his tricks. I remember the alligator, too, but I got mad because you were poking at him and then were surprised when he bit you! Duh! I remember the radio incident, too; hence the radio rule! I remember the pot-bellied pig and I remember the incident with the cop pulling you over after curfew. Caryn was so upset at the time and all Shannon could do was laugh!

But it makes me think about what I recall from my childhood. I do remember Nora pushing my buttons when I was about 9 or 10, to see if she could make me mad. We were playing some game, which I lost, and she kept poking at me and laughing and saying, "You lose!" over and over and over again. I finally got mad and pinned her down and beat her, but she just kept laughing. Fortunately, I wasn't strong enough to do any damage and it didn't seem to phase her at all. It was a dumb thing to get mad at, but I did.

I'm sure I could come up with a whole lot more, but many of them are unpleasant, so I won't. At any rate, it's more fun to 'listen' to you all banter about your memories.

Oh, and here's one for you. I remember it pouring rain and Caryn and Shannon were outside sitting on top of the swingset and I made them come in. Then they went out in the front in the rain. I told them to come in, but their argument that there was no lightning so it wasn't unsafe was valid, so we all went out and had a water fight in the rain. That was when Caryn doused Rick from across the street and Adena got Daddy because I locked him out of the house.

Good times!

Colleen said...

Here's one for Adena. I remember going for her very first parent-teacher conference and her teacher saying that she was doing better, she wasn't beating up the boys as much! It was the first I had heard about it and I got mad at her teacher for not telling me so I could address it, and I got mad at Adena initially because I don't condone fighting of any sort, but she had a good reason - sort of. She was beating up the boys who had been picking on some of the smaller girls, so it was hard to get really mad at her.

And here's one for Anna. I remember finding a rabbit under my car and bringing it in and taking care of it, only to find out it was a pregnant female and we soon had 3 baby rabbits as well as the mother. And Anna was truly fascinated by the babies. She kept poking at them in the cage till the mother finally bit her! I was afraid she might get rabies and it really was a deep cut, so I took her to the ER, but I think the rabbit was actually an escaped pet and probably didn't have rabies. Anyway, Anna was fine - except for the finger.

More good times! :)

Carynanne said...

So Anna could have rabies?

Anna Farley said...

Man, I thought I had problems! This definitely explains why I have no friends because of my...um...(whispered) foaming at the mouth problem.

Adena said...

Just for the record, I didn't actually "get" Daddy with the bucket o' water. It was aimed perfectly, and it would have been a perfect shot, EXCEPT that he smacked the bucket back at me and I got it instead. Good thing I was already wet.

Colleen said...

I know he got your first attempt; that was why I went around to the back of the house and went in and locked the door. He was trying to run in the house so he wouldn't get wet. I thought it was you who got him the second time with a cup instead of the bucket. At any rate, it was a lot of fun!