vlu77: i feel like spinning

vlu77: when i was a kid my parents belonged to this squash club

vlu77: and they used to take me when they'd play squash

vlu77: the only thing to do as a kid there was either watch the squash game (YAK) or hang out in the kid's room which consisted of four colored chairs and not much else

vlu77: so i would take the chairs apart, the plastic molded seat separated from the metal legs

vlu77: and stick the seat on the ground and rock back and forth in it

gaz: haha YES i used to do that with the chairs at school

vlu77: or i would find an empty squash court, stand in the middle, look up at the people in the bar windows peering down and spin until i fell, get up and spin til i fall again, and spin, fall, spin, fall - my hair would be like an umbrella of blonde

gaz: :)

vlu77: oddly, i was pretending i was a merry go round and every time i fell down the kids had to get off the ride so new kids could have a chance

gaz: haha

vlu77: i had a similar issue while listening to the police, the band

vlu77: my dad used to order records and cassettes from a catalogue and he'd let me pick. i'd always pick the police

vlu77: when the tape or record came in the mail, he'd put it on in our living room and i'd get under the glass coffee table, lie on my back, hold the cross bars of the table and whip my head back and forth on the floor

vlu77: this is how i enjoyed the police.

gaz: that's fantastic

vlu77: it really was

vlu77: it gave me a rush

vlu77: i imagined thats what sting did when he recorded his vocals

vlu77: i was the strange kid

vlu77: always doing weird ass crap on her own

vlu77: funny thing is, everyone would follow me and do the same weird ass crap

vlu77: like once i found this massive pile of stones that you could easily grind into a powder

vlu77: so i decided i was going to see how much powder i could make

vlu77: before you knew it, the entire neighbourhood of kids was grinding these stones for weeks like a fad

vlu77: and i just watched them and was like, "k, can we play capture the flag now, grinding stones is soooooo last week"

gaz: :)





poor gareth... insomnia drives me to YAP.





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