a healthy laugh

what a bizare evening i had recently. it is a good thing though. it seems like all of the bizare nights i have had in the past two months have been bad, well sunday it was a good bizare. i thought that i left all of those crazy stupid so easy to laugh at people back in the days of high school. oh was i wrong. it all began at starbucks with laura. sarah, laura, and i were going to hang out. we wanted food, and since it was sunday evening and i didnt want to spend any money, we went to my grandmas house. oh and let me tell you, that was a rip roaring good time! seriously, no, it sucked, but the food was free, so i cant complain.

just as we were getting ready to leave my drunken grandma (dont be shocked... she is drunk most of the time lately) the phone rang. so we hopped in the car, ran by my parents house real fast to say hi to my mom and pick up some banana bread, then we slowed down as we passed starbucks, threw laura out of the jeep and zipped down to uniontown at a steady 80mph. side note, my usual jeep (maroon, 1998, standard, half doors) preforms the high speed expressway traveling far better then my current jeep (red, 2003, automatic, full doors). i guess that i should have thought about that before i blew the clutch... yes... i blew the clutch, but i stand by my original statement that it had nothing to do with my driving techniques. it simply wore out.

the craziness that was the night was probably because we were hanging out with mike ferist... he is a real crazy one. so it was me, sarah, mike, tina (his wife), greg (sarahs brother), and lisa (gregs wife). we played guesstures and taboo. the teams were sarah, liza, and mike vs. colleen, tina, and greg. i have not laughed so long in i dont remember when. seriously, there was so much snorting going on. you should have seen me. half way through, between the guesstures and taboo change up, we put a little wager on the game. it was decided that the loosing team had to drive to shelas (sarah and gregs older and incredibly serious sister) house and stand at her front door singing and dancing to the YMCA. the hitch... mike had to stand in front (shela hates mike) with his shirt off (it was freezing outside). also, regardless of what team lost, greg had to run around her yard in his underware, with a bag on his head screaming, "im a looser baby, so why dont you kill me." (he and lisa bet that on the browns/bengals game... greg lost). well, my team won. so it was up to Sarah's Suckers to fulfill the bet.

i dont know that i have laughed at any single thing so hard in my entire life. it was amazing. as if mike, sarah, and lisa singing and dancing before shela at the front door wasnt enough, greg was in his underwear! so i stood there laughing at the specticle before me and then just as the laughter would subside, i would hear greg screaming in the distance, "im a looser baby, so why dont you kill me!" it was classic. oh the joy i feel inside just thinking about it. when we felt that shela was enraged enough to call the police, we ran away like little children. and then it happened... as we turned to run, lisa waved and said, "thank you." as we all laughed histerically (still running mind you), she peed. yes, lisa peed her pants.

i dont know that i fully expressed the humor of the whole evening to you, but i really felt like it needed to be shared. having times like these are so good. really, i wonder why it doesnt happen more often. circumstances like these would have been normal with those crazy friends from athens, or in high school all the time, but greg, lisa, mike, and tina are all in their mid to late 30s. both couples have 3 kids and sarah and i are significantly younger than them. it is really cool to me that old people still have fun like this. i hope that when i am 35 i still laugh hard enough to pee my pants or that i still hang out with people that make me snort when i laugh.

friends, i leave you with this. if you havent peed your pants or snorted recently, kick up your heels, get a little crazy, play some guesstures or taboo. times such as these will be unforgetable.