Random Memories

I went into Elmira today on my way home to pick up and drop off some stuff at my grandma's house, as well as make an eye app't and go to Shoppers. While running into the eye place, I glanced down the alley way between it and the stores facing the main street. Over head there are these pipes that run across. Behind the eye doc's place there is a slightly sloped roof and a lower part where it was easy to get up on top of.

When we were kids we used to go behind the eye doc's place, and climb our way up until we were on the roof, and then jump across to the roofs of the stores facing the street. From there we could get on top of Shoppers Drug Mart and other various buildings. And from the top of there we could see all around Elmira.

I miss being a kid, doing stuff like that.

I had another random memory today while driving. I think it was when I drove past a playground. I thought about Ty's birthday party in London, and being drunk with Dave on the playground near Ty's house. That was the night of the best mistake I ever made... I remember laying around on the pullout couch all day the next day, talking about all kinds of misc stuff... and then I remember driving to St. Catharines to visit my cousin Meg and crying cuz I didn't know what I had done. (I didn't realize it was the best mistake I'd ever made until later)...

Actually, I had another Dave memory this afternoon. (It's really not that uncommon... theres a lot of things that remind me of him. .... ) I drove past the place where I gave my pet sheep to, and I got to thinking about that sheep, and when I got her... That night we went over to the James' house to drink, and when we got back my poor sheepy was so scared, and my mom was being insane... she made me cry and that was probably the first time he saw me cry... but he was there for me and I knew that we had something good...

One more random memory, and it's not about Dave this time... I'll spare everyone because I'm the only one that cares, I'm sure. And if I recounted every memory I have on a daily basis this blog would be a novel.

I went into my grandma's basement this afternoon, and down there is a chalkboard. Now, I was a very bossy kid (I'm still a bossy kid) and when we had all the cousins together we would force James and Keelan to come down to the basement and we would play school. It's only with hindsight that I realize that not only were they unimpressed because we were bossing them around, but what kid wants to play school on their march break/christmas vacation/weekend? Anyway, Camille and I would be the teachers and a lot of the time we'd arrange various field trips. These trips usually went around town to various places... usually the back way around everything.

I'll keep track of more of these things that come to mind, and share what ones amuse me.