Monday, July 05, 2004
Where the youth group makes prank calls
I had this really, really long rambling dream. I'm going to try to recount as much of it as I can. I was in the living room when I look out the window and the church van is pulling into our driveway. It's full of teens. (Well, not full, on later count there were only like 7 people.)
So I go outside and they open the door and tell me that they're going to some coffee place to hang out. So I say, "Okay, hold on, let me go check with my mother." So I go inside but can't find Mom anywhere, and when I turn around, everybody has followed me inside.
Now I can see who's there - it's Amanda, Angela, Canaan, Hannah A., and Katie. Except Angela and Hannah A. are all dressed up in these fancy gowns with LOTS and LOTS of makeup on. I don't see Katie and Manda at that point, but I assume they're dressed up too. "I'll be back in a moment," I say. "I'm going to go change."
They whip out a pair of shorts and hand them to me. "Don't bother," they say. "Just wear these." So I put them on and say, "This is as dressed up as I get." Then I notice Manda's just in shorts and a T-shirt, too, so I don't feel so stupid anymore.
We decide to go upstairs and hang out at the top of my stairs and make prank phone calls to people. (Uh, yeah, this is definitely a youth group appropriate activity...)
So we were doing that upstairs and having lots of fun when suddenly Manda stands up and says, "A few days ago Tyler shot a globe and killed himself." (Okay, note on this - the globe obviously was in my head because I had been listening to the Princess In Pink audiobook, where somebody tries to drop a globe on their head to kill themselves.)
Nobody seems very surprised or even dismayed at this news, they all just nod and then we go back to our prank phone calls.
Later, I'm cleaning out my basement and decide to go out with the youth group again. Mom asks me what I'm doing and I say, "I'm feeling very social today. This may never, ever happen again." So she says okay. So instead of calling people up and inviting them out to do something, I go upstairs and turn on my radio, because I know that I'll hear our prank calls on there. (Hardly hanging out with the youth group, but ah well.) But the radio's playing a prank call that's like horribly obscene (really it wasn't, it was a conversation about Tweety, it just struck me as being obscene) and I sit there thinking, "We didn't do that... did we?"
There was also something where Amanda tells me as we go out to the van (apparently we decided to go somewhere after all) something about her mom being mad at someone or someone being mad at her mom... I wasn't quite sure.
So I go outside and they open the door and tell me that they're going to some coffee place to hang out. So I say, "Okay, hold on, let me go check with my mother." So I go inside but can't find Mom anywhere, and when I turn around, everybody has followed me inside.
Now I can see who's there - it's Amanda, Angela, Canaan, Hannah A., and Katie. Except Angela and Hannah A. are all dressed up in these fancy gowns with LOTS and LOTS of makeup on. I don't see Katie and Manda at that point, but I assume they're dressed up too. "I'll be back in a moment," I say. "I'm going to go change."
They whip out a pair of shorts and hand them to me. "Don't bother," they say. "Just wear these." So I put them on and say, "This is as dressed up as I get." Then I notice Manda's just in shorts and a T-shirt, too, so I don't feel so stupid anymore.
We decide to go upstairs and hang out at the top of my stairs and make prank phone calls to people. (Uh, yeah, this is definitely a youth group appropriate activity...)
So we were doing that upstairs and having lots of fun when suddenly Manda stands up and says, "A few days ago Tyler shot a globe and killed himself." (Okay, note on this - the globe obviously was in my head because I had been listening to the Princess In Pink audiobook, where somebody tries to drop a globe on their head to kill themselves.)
Nobody seems very surprised or even dismayed at this news, they all just nod and then we go back to our prank phone calls.
Later, I'm cleaning out my basement and decide to go out with the youth group again. Mom asks me what I'm doing and I say, "I'm feeling very social today. This may never, ever happen again." So she says okay. So instead of calling people up and inviting them out to do something, I go upstairs and turn on my radio, because I know that I'll hear our prank calls on there. (Hardly hanging out with the youth group, but ah well.) But the radio's playing a prank call that's like horribly obscene (really it wasn't, it was a conversation about Tweety, it just struck me as being obscene) and I sit there thinking, "We didn't do that... did we?"
There was also something where Amanda tells me as we go out to the van (apparently we decided to go somewhere after all) something about her mom being mad at someone or someone being mad at her mom... I wasn't quite sure.
Labels: angela w, canaan, hannah a, katie, manda, mom, tweety, tyler
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