>>OPERATION: MEMORY RECALL

For a long time now I have been thinking about posting random memories I have from my life. After one of my good friends did this last week on her blog, I decided it was time to finally document some of these memories. I will call it 'operation: memory recall.' These posts will consist of a random memory I have from when I was just a youngster to memories I have from last week. We'll see how it goes, shall we?


Year: somewhere around 1995-1996 (7th grade)
Memory: rollerblading / fetching movies

Rollerblading was cool back in the 90's, right? Maybe it still is today, I don't know. What I do know is that I used to love to rollerblade. That is how I got from point A to point B.

During my 7th grade year, I spent a lot of time with a wonderful family down the street, the Goughs. Many times, I traveled to their house via my rollerblades. Guess who else used to spend some time at their house? Curtis. Curtis was best friends with Justin, one of the Gough boys.

I kind-a, sort-a thought Curtis was cute back then so it was fun when we were both at the Gough's house at the same time. One such time, Curtis and Justin were hanging out in the Gough's front yard as I rolled up on my handy-dandy rollerblades. They knew that I had a lot of movies at my house (VHS tapes) and they insisted that I go pick them one of the movies and bring it to them to watch. Wanting to impress them, I played a long. Looking back, they were probably just teasing me and laughing at the fact that I was rollerblading back and forth from their house to mine fetching them movies.

Nonetheless, how it worked was they would tell me which row to pick the movie from and how many over. For example, they would say, "we want whatever movie is on the 4th shelf, 5th movie over." I would then rollerblade home, find the movie, and then bring it to them. I don't know why I remember this, but one of the movies they picked happened to be Road House staring Patrick Swayze, which also happened to be RATED R. Being the good girl I was, I rollerbladed back to the Gough's without the movie. Curtis and Justin tried their best to convince me that they really wanted to see Road House and begged me to bring it to them. Really, I think they just wanted it for the "adult language, adult situations, NUDITY and violence." I knew I couldn't be responsible for corrupting their innocent minds (yeah right), so I forced them to pick a different movie. I think the next movie they picked was also Rated R, so we quit the game after that. (This shows the kind of movie collection I had at my house...ha ha.)



In retrospect, I can totally see that Curtis and Justin were just goofing around and seeing if I would actually rollerblade back and forth to get them movies. It doesn't matter though, because at that moment I felt cool because I was hanging out with 2 of the coolest guys I knew.