"everybody sounds the same..everybody wears the same clothes now..."
it's early in my senior year. shelby calls me into her classroom. the other cheerleaders are being hateful to one of the girls and shelby thinks i can get them to stop. of course i'll try...i mean, who is gonna tell shelby no?! not this girl!! problem is, these are my friends and fellow cheerleaders she's talking about. how do i tell them they're being jackasses? it doesn't help that i think they are being completely ridiculous. they don't like her because she's copying one of the other girls. how, you ask? well...she dared to get bangs! yep. she got bangs. remember how i said it's the 80's? everybody has bangs. everybody. has. bangs. getting the other girls to simmer down isn't hard at all. i just start sitting with her on the way to games. hanging out with her in the hall. in a matter of days we are all besties. life is good.
FLASH FORWARD november 2009
i post a status on facebook. it's pretty funny. i pat myself on the back for being a comic genius. i try to convince jamie that we should move to new york city. saturday night live could use me on their writing staff. but wait? what's this? someone has copied and pasted my status! word for word! right down to the little symbols i use to send secret code to the bk! are you flippin kidding me right now?! i text queenie and we rip this woman apart. this happens again the next day. and the day after that. and the day after that. i'm annoyed. then the bk, in his infinite wisdom, points out that she thinks i'm funny and is just sharing my humor. and "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery..." blah blah blah. he's right. i'm an idiot.
my point, you ask? we all have our own sense of style. our special way of talking. our amazing, unique personalities. but there are people out there, even us 40 somethings, that are searching for that. if you find yourself with a copyright infringer (thanks to queenie for that phrase), be flattered. they think you're awesomesauce.
a gallery of the unique personalities in my life:
You are amazingly awesome. Everyone should try to be more like you! Also, what happened to that weirdo's glasses?
ReplyDeletei remember that day so well!! actually, i just lied. i was totally blackout. but i remember it was fun!!
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