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Submitted by your mother (View user info) at 2004-10-28 10:55:38 EDT
Popularity isn't a hard thing to achieve, all you have to do is get one sheep to think that you're cool and the rest will follow... REMAINING popular is the hard part.
The year was 1993, I was in the 8th grade, I was popular but not the most popular guy in school. Everyone who knew me, loved me but that wasn't enough, there were always those sheep who were still unaware of my coolness and that bothered me. I performed various antics, did things other only wished they could do but my deserved herd was still "lacking". The solution to my dilemma appeared one day as I was passing an electronics showroom. There it stood shining in all it's glory, my ticket to popularity beyond one's wildest imagination. The Hud Hud. The first affordable GSM cell phone .I had to have it. I got it.
I took it to school the next day telling the sheep not to make any plans that would include yours truly for I would be very busy taking calls.
8 am, no one called.
9 am, still it did not ring.
10 am, I checked to see whether it was still working.
My attempt to become one with the phone and will it to life was rendered futile too. I then remembered the minor detail I had overlooked .. no one had my fucking number. 2 pm (school's out), the sheep inquired the reason to my not being busy, to which I replied " I turned it off because I didn't want to disturb the class". I then made up some excuse about having to do some stuff only people with cell phones could do and left.
I spent the whole afternoon thinking of ways to get people to call me when my mother asked me the reason to my contemplative behaviour. I was about to say that it was nothing important when it clicked. Why hadn't I thought of it before? I turned to face my mother and said
"Mom, could you call me "on my cell" tommorow at 9 sharp to remind me of this appointment I got at the dentist, ( i gave her some crap about my friends father being one who offered me a free checkup) just incase I forget".
My mother although somewhat taken back at my newfound interest in dental hygene, agreed. Next day ...
"Don't make any plans including me for I will be very busy taking phone calls".
8 am, almost estatic with anticipation.
8:30 am, willing the clock to move faster.
8:59 am, this is it.
9 am, No call.
9:10 am, still no call (no need to panic, she's always late for eveything).
10 am, Maybe she has forgotten my number, did I give her the right number? .
11 am, Maybe she's dead.
2 pm, "I have to go do stuff only people with mobile phones can"
I returned home waiting for my mother to be at the door, on her knees, ready to beg for my forgiveness, but that wasn't to be. When I finally did see her and inquired of the reason, she said "I thought about it and decided it was not such a good idea to disturb you and your class, also I don't think you should be taking a mobile phone to school". Hah, what does she know. I spent the whole afternoon thinking of ways to get calls ( a call), bribing people, bullying people, enchanting the damn thing etc but to no avail.
Almost defeated I sat down for lunch, my father was reading the classifieds section, I glanced at the part viewable to me and read the following "have any item you can't get rid off? Well just advertise in our "items for sale" section for "free" and ....".
The following ad appeared in the paper the next day .. " Brand new Nintendo (unwanted gift) for sale, only Dhs 100 (the cost of an actual being somewhere around 9 times that amount), Contact Mr (my name) on (my number) between 8 am and 1 pm. And that phone rang and rang like there was no tommorow. I became the most popular guy in school.
Everyone had my number and everyone called, even if just to say "What's up".
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Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-11-26 18:20:58 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
No Comment
Submitted by 10c7c (user info) at 2004-10-28 11:37:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
classic... hehehe
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-10-28 11:36:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I threw my cell phone out in '95 and never got another one.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2004-10-28 11:30:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
This was gay but I believe it really happened to this dork. +1!
Submitted by AwesomeJohnson (user info) at 2004-10-28 11:25:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
you wanna be like zach morris, dontcha?
Submitted by scrumdown (user info) at 2004-10-28 11:17:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
So....is the nintendo still for sale??
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2004-10-28 11:02:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
ghey
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2004-10-28 11:01:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
attenion whore....
made me smile
Submitted by BillsSBChamps (user info) at 2004-10-28 10:59:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Holy fuck was this fucking gay.