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dear porch boys

the past couple days have involved quite a bit of dumpster diving. among many other things, we have come into the possession of a shit load of juice and a shit load of shoes. go figure. we skimmed through the shoes and took what we wanted; we filled the fridge and freezer with as much juice as possible; we still had more of both. we gave away what we could to our friends around the area, but still we had more.

yesterday, shane and i were arranging the shoes on the front porch and preparing the left over juice to take drop off on the Ave, when a few girls drove by and shouted up, “hey, where’d you get all those shoes?” we told them to come up and take some, so 2 of them got out of the car and came up to the porch.

they were 18 years old and a little awkard at first. with hooka in hand, you could tell they were disappointed that the Rabbit Hole (the local hooka house) wasn’t opening until 8pm. bummer. we talked for a few more minutes, but in the end they didn’t take any shoes and only about 4 small things of juice. no biggy.

fast foward about 8 hours. me, brookis, alex, and alex are walking back to the house around 1am and we see those same 2 girls (a little more dressed up this time) walking toward us on their way to the Rabbit Hole. they said, “hey, we left you a note,” and then scurried past. we came up to the house where shane said that they had been just a few seconds before and had thrown a crumpled-up note on the porch and ran away.

we gathered around and read the note:

Dear Porch Boys -
Hello, you may remember us from {2 stick figures} asking you about your shoe art earlyier we are @ white rabit blease join us so we can become best friends.
love
{3 stick figures}
leah margoret christine

i have not corrected any spelling and tried to represent it as accurately as possible. if you want to see the real thing, click here.


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13 Responses

  1. N8 says:

    Blease tell Christine that I like her hair.

  2. Brandon says:

    Did you guys become friends? More importantly, are they attractive? Or are they b.u.b.s? Sweet Jesus I need these answers!

  3. eli says:

    they were too young. and more in the “weird and immature” way than in the “hot young girls” way. ya know what i mean? also, they weren’t terribly cute. what is a bub again?

  4. Brandon says:

    big ugly bitch

  5. N8 says:

    I miss you, Brandon.

  6. eli says:

    right right. i should have known.

  7. Chocolate says:

    No 18 year old girl is too young. What a terrible thing to say.
    BUB-free since ’01,
    Chocolate

  8. eli says:

    it’s not like they were too young physically, they were too young mentally. i mean, in just talking to them for a few minutes i was getting sick. seriously, it seemed like they were 14 years old.

  9. Chocolate says:

    …and yet, that only intrigues me further.

  10. eli says:

    i’m not exactly sure what to say about all this.

  11. Jonas says:

    That’s… odd. Blease may now become part of my mocking-other-people vocabulary. But seriously, Eli, I’m glad you like the list. Don’t forget to pass it on!

  12. Andy says:

    When you’re writing a note by hand, how do you make a “B” instead of a “P”? People make little errors on keyboard, sure, but handwritten is weird. Props.

  13. eli says:

    yeah, and meredith said that i was being unfair about that one. she says that it is “totally” a “p” and that i’m just being picky. so, i looked at the note again, and actually it’s more like a capital “D” if you think about it.

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