Dark Side of Van (573 hits)
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Submitted by Derick B <dprime.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2004-07-29 03:12:25 EDT
My last post had remarkably bad punctuation and spelling; the grammar almost as much so, lol. Yeah, that one showed a lot of opinion and kind of over-enthusiasm. I also think I looked like a bit of a psycho in the rating arguments which weren't exactly 'classy'.
Well, I'm here to tell a story.
So I was going to my friend Yaz's house to hangout for about half an house before we were going to see 'Dark Side of Oz'; it's this thing where apparently Dark Side of the Moon being played over The Wizard of OZ overlaps perfectly and the music matches the movie.
So, really this story begins when we were downtown a few weeks earlier and saw this poster. "Pink Floyd - OZ - Dark Side of the Moon to the Wizard of OZ, every Sunday night July-August, Addressee whatever" we both liked Floyd a lot as I (for the most part) had introduced her too it recently, so decided it would be interesting. We each stole a poster and made off.
Now, on this hot day a few weeks later I get to her house to find her door is looked.. I ring the door bell... no answer... this is screwy. I could use the secret key (I knew where they hid it) but I couldn't remember them not having an alarm system and she would generally answer. I had no idea what to think.
I remembered we asked our friend Kory to come with us and that he should be there in a few minutes, so I walked up her street and surley enough I see him at the corner. I told him what happend at the door and he was just as 'wtf?' as me. He reminds me she has a boyfriend name Ryan who was gonna drive us and be there half an hour after we were supposed to be, so we decide to take a walk to the convenience store, split a Twix, each get a Pepsi or Nestea, and come back to see if Ryan is here.
So, we return with our chocolate and our sugary drinks to the end of the street. Ryan is supposed to be here in a few minutes. We realize that we don't know what Ryan looks like; all we know is that he is a red head and drives a van. We decide this is enough and wait to see a Van turn the corner a few minutes later. We look in to see red hair and a guy who doesn't seem to be 'all there'. Air head tall white red-head, it HAD to be her guy.
He stops at the curb and we walk up to the window, which he rolls down all friendly like.
'You Ryan'
'Hmm? Oh, of course'
'Yeah, we're Yaz's friends, but she isn't there. You want to just go without her?'
'Sure man, why wait?'
Sweet, Ryan seems like a nice guy; he lets us into the Air Conditioned van and puts on a classic rock station... all seems to be fine. We talk to him, not a lot of factual questions, just talking about each other's interests and he seems like a cool guy. I wanted to go to the front 'cause he didn't know how to get there (I had never been there myself, I just knew the two streets and thus how to get to the intersection it was just south of) and I hated giving directions from the back, but I decided against leaving Kory alone. He seems to get it figured our pretty quickly anyway.
We get there to find a townhouse. We look inside and it's a bigass screen in a side room being projected onto, and it costs 10 bucks. We think 'fuck it' he gives us slips of paper and we walk to Tim Horton's to get Ice Caps and waste some of the next half an hour; Ryan had change leftover and bought me mine cause he didn't want me to break my 20.. nice guy, eh?
Well, Dark Side of Oz sucked and barley overlapped; we realized for 30 bucks we could have gotten a pizza and done it in my room. But, we met Ryan, it seemed like it had potential for a pretty fun memory and he said he'd drive us back to wherever we lived. We told him to just drive us back to Yaz's house so we could ask her where the fuck she was and then we'd go home from there.
On the way back he drive's like a fuckin maniac. We didn't know whether to think this was cool and fun, or just scary. But i'm sure at one point I feared for my life; the weaving through cars while going 100km/h along Lawrence Ave. didn't seem to make Kory feel very well. There was also this period where he drove us through this obscure area and we had NO IDEA why, but it was fun none the less. I think he actually killed a couple geese during the rampage.
After what may have been the death of two small Canadian animals, and almost giving Kory a heartattack, he had got us there.
Her driveway was full so he parked at the end of the street (the lane wasn't long enough to park at the side apparently) and Kory said he'd walk the 3/4 block and get her. I sat with Ryan, talked about music, he told me he liked dark side of the moon and had never heard it before that day.
He asked me what was in my backpack and I told him, conveniently enough a few cds I had brought to lend her and Dark Side was one of them. I said he had been a much better person that day and I'd lend it to him and she could have the other 3. He said that was really cool and that if I wanted he would transfer it to her when she was done.
I saw Kory and Yaz approaching, he seemed a little mad at her like he was asking questions. I got out of the van, told Ryan I'd be back soon and he just say and waited. I went up to Yaz.
"Dude, what the hell?"
"Sorry! I'll explain to you guys in a sec... It's complicated"
"Well, it's not so bad, we had a good time with Ryan I guess, he's a nice guy; I don't know what he's doing with a girl like you. You're lucky" I told her half jokingly half serious.
"What?"
"Ryan, we went with him even though you abandoned us, cool guy. I don't know why he hasn't come to talk to you, he's right there in his car" I explain to her and look behind me.
"I've never seen that person or that car before in my life.. Ryan is upstairs in my room right now." I heard her girlish voice tell me as I stared at a Van driving off into the summer night.
And that fucker had my copy of Dark Side.
User Reviews
Submitted by downerSTAIN (user info) at 2004-08-24 20:57:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
So THAT'S why you're not supposed to get in vans with strangers. And Dark Side of Oz kicks ass, you probably just weren't high enough. Smoke some good weed and see it again, tell me it doesn't change your life.
Submitted by Jason <imthefuckinkidneytheft> at 2004-07-29 11:57:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
There was no Lesbians! I was shocked!
But there was stealing, so no negative.
Submitted by Sofa_Queen (user info) at 2004-07-29 05:49:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I used to have a dark pair of vans, But they got too many holes to patch up with duck (duct) tape, so I bought airwalks.
Submitted by Donitsu2002 (user info) at 2004-07-29 03:35:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
what the fuck
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2004-07-29 03:23:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
that makes it harder to read. youre damned no matter what you do, eh? :p
'dude, youre grammar and stuff is horrible! i cant read it!'
'hey! what the hell? its supposed to be like that!'
Submitted by Sideburns (user info) at 2004-07-29 03:19:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This isn't a time when we should give our fellow Ubersite users negative ratings. Although this was shit, I'm going to give you a +2 and a "Keep Truckin'" sticker.
Submitted by Socialist_Joe (user info) at 2004-07-29 03:14:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
"My last post had remarkably bad punctuation and spelling; the grammar almost as much"
thats how it should be
Submitted by AlwaysAnEagle (user info) at 2004-07-29 03:13:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Because I am in a foul mood and this was dreck.