Remember that time I decided I wanted a bike so I went onto Craigslist and came home with a bike roughly 2 hours later?

Yeah.
That was pretty awesome.

There was another time that I decided that I was going to buy a clarinet and Fan Girl and Mercado and I were going to start a band– the awesome kind of band made up of a guitar, a clarinet, and a flute. So I got on Craigslist, there was a clarinet for $20 and I got it? That quick and just like that.

Yeah.
That was pretty awesome too.

I haven’t played the clarinet in a really, Really, REALLY long time, but it’s got to be kind of like riding a bike, right? Those keys are still the same so if I could play it once, I can play it again….
Right?

RIGHT?

The night that I got it we had our first band practice over at Mercado’s house and it was more just us sitting around drinking beer and talking about boys. Until, that is, the new neighbors brought a load of stuff over.
Mercado had given us some back story where-in the boys (this is not my affectionate term… they’re really young guys… they’re boys…) had come to her door one day to introduce themselves but… didn’t… really have much to say it was kind of awkward.
The boys, like I said, are young, not entirely attractive or socially integrated young men so as soon as they pulled up in their car, it was like there was a flaming bum fight outside. Three slightly drunk Old Lady heads whipped around and we whispered some very excited “Squee”s. Fan Girl whipped out her flute and scrambled for the best song. I covered up the sudden onset of music by tooting out a few notes so it sounded like we’d been playing the whole time. Just as they came up the stairs, Kelly broke out the big guns.

She started playing the Star Wars Trek theme song.

The boys fumbled for their keys and kept shooting glances in the window. As soon as she was done, whether it had been to us or to his roomie we don’t know, The Skinny One said “Keep it going” or something to that extent.

I’m convinced that now that we are all better acquainted with our instruments, we will be a very successful Def Leppard cover band making bajillions of dollars on street corners.

wait.

that doesn’t sound right…

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