Scenes from a Canadian Long Weekend
This evening on my way home from visiting the community garden plot, I passed a house on the corner near our place. On the front lawn sat about 12 teenagers wearing hoodie sweatshirts and concert t-shirts, sitting on cheap lawn chairs, perched among several coolers.
They had propped up against the stop sign post on their corner a crude sign made from a piece of plywood, likely pilfered from the new home construction site across the street. In red spray paint they had scrawled,
“U HONK WE DRINK”
The Type-A side of me tisked that they really shouldn’t be doing that. Then another little part of my brain remembered being 17 years old, drinking long island ice tea mix with Coke out of a big plastic cup with a corrugated straw. Rules didn’t matter. There was fun to be had.
I honked.
I totally would have honked.
Twice.
That’s my Canadian blood coming through.
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I have a very strong aversion to the way horns sound, they make me nuts, but I would have honked mine for that. And then driven by later to see the damage I’d helped do.
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Oh, I’d have honked, too. And then maybe wondered if their parents knew what they were up to.
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I would have honked too ! Ha!
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i absolutely would’ve honked. community building takes all kinds of forms, right?
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Not only would I have honked, but I’m totally going to make my OWN sign, and sit on the corner with it some weekend night. High entertainment.
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Like you, my first thought is to shake my fist and say “darn kids!” But next, I think, aw, that would be kind of fun…
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I may not have let fist make contact with horn, but I’d have smiled or something. Then again…
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hahahahahah! i love jen’s comment.
amen.
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You were passing by Her Bad Mother’s house, weren’t you? Oh I kid, now that’s a lazy drinking game but I would have totally honked too.
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I’m with Ellie! I would have made the same sign and played the game myself!
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See, I don’t think that game would get me drunk fast enough.
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