Flashback: College...1985, the first year of my collegiate education. I lived in room 710 of Towers North. We didn't have money to spend on Christmas decorations, so, I drove out to Trail of Tears State Park and along the way, I decided to cut down one of those tiny little perfect trees on the side of the road. Seriously, it was Charlie Brown all the way...except it was actually shaped like a Christmas tree! It was about two feet tall...just big enough to sit on top of a little table in front of the window!
I have no idea who was with me during this horrible crime spree, but it doesn't matter....it could have been any single one of you reading this!
Got back to the dorm room only to realize....we had no decorations! So, I dug in my desk drawer and found some black and red felt....don't ask me why, I have absolutely no clue why I had felt in my dorm room.
Then, I realized I had tampons! So, we took the tampons out of the applicator, fluffed them up a bit, used markers to decorate faces, button and such, used the felt for top hats and scarves and Voila!! Instant snowmen with automatic hangers!!! YEP! That was awesome. We made small paper chains out of red and green construction paper and it was a fantastic Christmas tree!!
I did that the next year too, my sophomore year living in the dorm with my sister when she was a freshman! We had hot pink curtains in our dorm window. Yes, dorm life was a learning experience for me. When I moved into the dorm 2 weeks before school started my freshman year ...because we had marching band camp, there were only a handful of girls that were there early. The second day after I moved in, I showered and got ready to go to Brandt Music Hall, and as I walked down the hallway to leave, one of the girls I had met the day before had her door wide open and as I stopped to say hello to her, I then realized she was snorting lines of cocaine off of a mirror at her desk. I couldn't believe it. I told her if she was going to be stupid enough to do that, she should at least close the door so she wouldn't get caught, kicked out and arrested before school even started!!! That was the first of many eye opening experiences for this naive kid from Farmington!
One of the girls who lived down the hall was a hoot! She introduced me to Violent Femmes! Thank you, Sherri!! One night, the music was blasting, people had their doors open and basically everyone was being roudy! Michele and I were sitting in our dorm room with the door slung wide open when in ran two of our friends from down the hall, Sherri being one of them. They didn't say a word...Sherri, from now on to be known as the "mooner", turned around and mooned us...okay...funny...but then, the other girl bent over behind the mooner's ass and the mooner let one fly while the other girl lit it on fire with a lighter....that had been turned up on high...I have never laughed so hard in my life! They didn't say a word....just ran out! I had never seen anything like that before....and I have to say...since! :) Hysterical!
Oh, the memories...but for now, that is all!! :)
I have no idea who was with me during this horrible crime spree, but it doesn't matter....it could have been any single one of you reading this!
Got back to the dorm room only to realize....we had no decorations! So, I dug in my desk drawer and found some black and red felt....don't ask me why, I have absolutely no clue why I had felt in my dorm room.
Then, I realized I had tampons! So, we took the tampons out of the applicator, fluffed them up a bit, used markers to decorate faces, button and such, used the felt for top hats and scarves and Voila!! Instant snowmen with automatic hangers!!! YEP! That was awesome. We made small paper chains out of red and green construction paper and it was a fantastic Christmas tree!!
I did that the next year too, my sophomore year living in the dorm with my sister when she was a freshman! We had hot pink curtains in our dorm window. Yes, dorm life was a learning experience for me. When I moved into the dorm 2 weeks before school started my freshman year ...because we had marching band camp, there were only a handful of girls that were there early. The second day after I moved in, I showered and got ready to go to Brandt Music Hall, and as I walked down the hallway to leave, one of the girls I had met the day before had her door wide open and as I stopped to say hello to her, I then realized she was snorting lines of cocaine off of a mirror at her desk. I couldn't believe it. I told her if she was going to be stupid enough to do that, she should at least close the door so she wouldn't get caught, kicked out and arrested before school even started!!! That was the first of many eye opening experiences for this naive kid from Farmington!
One of the girls who lived down the hall was a hoot! She introduced me to Violent Femmes! Thank you, Sherri!! One night, the music was blasting, people had their doors open and basically everyone was being roudy! Michele and I were sitting in our dorm room with the door slung wide open when in ran two of our friends from down the hall, Sherri being one of them. They didn't say a word...Sherri, from now on to be known as the "mooner", turned around and mooned us...okay...funny...but then, the other girl bent over behind the mooner's ass and the mooner let one fly while the other girl lit it on fire with a lighter....that had been turned up on high...I have never laughed so hard in my life! They didn't say a word....just ran out! I had never seen anything like that before....and I have to say...since! :) Hysterical!
Oh, the memories...but for now, that is all!! :)
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