Two 17 year olds meet the Internet. (1414 hits)
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Submitted by LaNa (View user info) at 2004-01-15 14:59:05 EST
When I was 17 years old I never really thought I was naïve...but looking back, boy was I wrong!
My friend Kathy had recently moved into my mom's house with me. I had just gotten my first computer and she and I were both so excited about the idea of talking to thousands of people we didn't know just by typing. Once we came up with our name (we didn't know we could each have our own) it was always signed on.
I was working at Burger King, Kathy was unemployed and during the week we were too broke to really do anything. I would go to work; Kathy would be signed on... I would come home and cover for her while she went to sleep. Then on the weekend we would go out and spend the money that I had earned. This went on for a few weeks.
One day Kathy looks at me and says "Wouldn't it be fun if we started meeting some of these people?" If only I would've said no...
We started hanging out with random people that we had talked to online - meeting them at the mall... restaurants... etc. We were young and there wasn't much for us to do in our town.
We met this guy named Craig and he wanted to go play pool. Well her and I were both sick of hanging around our lil town so we said "Hey - we'll come out to your place" and he couldn't have been more excited.
Kathy and I start our trek and 5 miles into it on the expressway, we get a flat tire. My spare was rusted into the trunk so it took us a while to get it out. Since we were only a few miles from home I was going to call someone to give us a hand - but I realized I didn't have my bag phone. Yes... I said bag phone. My mom was borrowing it this week though, so I was phoneless. After we change the flat - we make it to Craig's unscathed.
*knock-knock*
A 40 year old man opens the door to the apartment. Craig had told us online he was 19.
"Hi - is Craig home?"
"Oooh! You must be Kathy and Alana! Hi I'm Craig"
"uhm.. Is Craig junior home?"
We of course like idiots go right on in to his apartment. His big, creepy apartment complete with a huge poster of the chick from "Heavy Metal" on his wall. Kathy and I sit on the couch while Craig goes to get something to drink. He has his blender to make his drink - yet he pulls two pre-made drinks out of the fridge for us.
"So... uhm.... Craig.... Are we gonna go play pool?"
"Yea yea yea - let's just have a drink first"
"No thanks... lets go"
"C'mon! Drink!"
"uhm.. no"
We get up to leave setting the drinks on the coffee table. We head for the door and tell Craig that we'll meet him at the pool hall. He grabs Kathy's arm.
"No don't leave"
"We'll see you there right? Bye Craig"
"NO!"
We start running out of his apartment and through the building with him running after us. I hit the door to the outside first and open it right into my forehead. I had so much adrenaline going at the time that I wasn't even fazed and I just kept running. We make it to my car and squeal off. Craig stops running after us.
After 30 minutes of typical teenage freak out discussions. ("Oh my god! Did you see that? Oh my god and he was like..... and then I was like oh my god in my head... and then he was all like and I was all like.... "you get the idea) we're on the expressway almost home.
Where the two expressways meet to get to my house there is about a 5 mile area of just fields. That is the perfect location for two 17 year old girls with no cell phone at 2 in the morning to get a flat tire. To refresh your memory - we already had a flat tire at the beginning of our story and like most normal humans - I don't carry two spares in my trunk. So in layman's terms - we were fucked.
On most nights, cops are everywhere on those expressways. Not tonight. We sat on the trunk of my car for almost an hour just smoking and wondering what to do when we finally gave up and decided to drive it. It was a little less than 10 miles so it should be ok right?
Wrong.
I managed to rip a hole in my wheel well and separate the axel from the rest of the car. Grrrrrrreat.
Maybe we'll meet someone who's rich next time...
User Reviews
Submitted by Scott_James (user info) at 2004-02-10 20:51:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Damn that's scary. I think that's just put me off going to Ubercon 2004.
Submitted by Killer (user info) at 2004-02-10 20:45:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
LANA,
U didn't know that is MAc's name....Macoomphasis....ask...i gave it to him
Submitted by tuesdaydelay (user info) at 2004-01-18 14:30:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This was an interesting read. I met some faker once. She was fat and very disgusting. Her picture was the complete opposite. She also wasn't rich like she'd waffled on about for ages. Being naive blows.
Submitted by Acarnis (user info) at 2004-01-18 13:58:43 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
What Loren said...
I'm 18 right now...and I'm not nearly as stupid. Catscradle was 18, yesterday.
Submitted by Loren1 (user info) at 2004-01-16 10:04:38 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Boy you are right, you where a total moron. I cannot believe you went into that apartment. Where where you raised? The land of Oz? Un-fucking-real.
-2, because even the 14 year olds I know aren't that stupid.
BTW - I'm having a get-together at my place tonight, want to come?
Submitted by LaNa (user info) at 2004-01-16 09:49:04 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Herpes ~ No thanks.. I'm not really that thirsty - HA! :)
Jon ~ wanna make it three out of four? *wink* tee hee
Ash ~ No kidding!!
Daking ~ Hindsight is 20/20. Its amazing how much stupid shit I'm realizing now that I did back then.
Seans ~ How do you pull that off? Did you invite the girls back to the barracks or something? haha
Submitted by seansdementia (user info) at 2004-01-15 23:57:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I did the internet date thing 3 times...stupid me I thought maybe Il get lucky. Instead I got 3 stalkers. Finally a perk of living on a military base. GUards with guns.
Submitted by dakingisdead (user info) at 2004-01-15 23:32:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
'When I was 17 years old I never really thought I was naïve...but looking back, boy was I wrong!'
Same with me (many years ago) same with all teenagers. At least you weren't on your own or it could have been a whole lot uglier result.
Submitted by QueenAshlee (user info) at 2004-01-15 23:12:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Wow, Lana. That's scary as hell. Christ.
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2004-01-15 22:58:47 EST (#)
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damnit herpes, you took my comment.
umm...
you wanna come to my house and have sex? er um... i mean play pool.
Submitted by jonukah (user info) at 2004-01-15 22:46:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I've met three girls from the internet (not counting ubermeet), and have had sex with two of them.
<sigh> I'm such a slut.
Atleast these girls were smart enough to meet me in a public place.
+2 for teenage stupidity (ah...the memories)
Submitted by Herpes (user info) at 2004-01-15 20:08:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
You should come over so I can make you a drink. Maybe we'll shoot pool or something.
Submitted by LaNa (user info) at 2004-01-15 20:05:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Replies to all who replied (how redundant)~
NA - I know! I guess people can change.
Chicken - I'm an angel! I swear!
Mac & Nat - The sad thing is... thats how we really sounded.
Insane - No. It is you that is the awesome one.
Drink & Method - I realized that when I retold the story the other night at the bar. I hadn't thought of it in a long time and around every turn I just realized *Damn - what fucking tools we were*
Craig aka *Lucid* - Wanna go play pool?
Toodles!
~LaNa :)
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2004-01-15 20:01:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
"Man, those trick doors get me sometimes, too!"
Submitted by lucid (user info) at 2004-01-15 19:07:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Sorry about that. You guys just looked really dehydrated.
-Craig
Submitted by esso_merda (user info) at 2004-01-15 18:56:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This was great. The car trouble part sounds like something that would happen to me.
Submitted by hamilton (user info) at 2004-01-15 18:38:18 EST (#)
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Submitted by Method (user info) at 2004-01-15 18:17:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Well written. You are, however, a total moron. Well, when you were 17, anyway.
Submitted by Natophelia (user info) at 2004-01-15 17:29:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
("Oh my god! Did you see that? Oh my god and he was like..... and then I was like oh my god in my head... and then he was all like and I was all like.... "you get the idea)
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAfuckingHAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Submitted by drink_DDT (user info) at 2004-01-15 17:19:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Well, I enjoyed reading the post. But I can't lie, I was thinking exactly this as I read it:
"What a couple of stupid bitches"
Submitted by MmmVag (user info) at 2004-01-15 17:06:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
for some reason i gave you a one and i hope loki reads that, so here's another 1... im not really lucid right now
Submitted by MmmVag (user info) at 2004-01-15 17:04:55 EST (#)
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That was a dumb thing to do. Hey just outta curiousity, and i'm pretty sure you know already, but loki was a bad person... you know that right? Cause you seem like a good person.
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2004-01-15 15:42:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
You're awesome Lana.
Submitted by Mac (user info) at 2004-01-15 15:36:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Good story. I like the teenager talk in the car. That was a trip.
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2004-01-15 15:29:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
ah haha! LaNa you naughty thing!
sneaking off for a quick hookup like that..
Submitted by NotApologizing (user info) at 2004-01-15 15:14:02 EST (#)
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Who would have known that we'd meet up again all these years later and decide to drive to Florida together?
Submitted by youarsoghey (user info) at 2004-01-15 15:11:52 EST (#)
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Submitted by BRICKHOUSE (user info) at 2004-01-15 15:09:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Back in the day, one of my friends was talking to this "19yr old cheerleader from texas" they eventually exchanged pictures, but instead of looking 19, she was closer to 91!