Kinda Funny

It's funny thinking about getting older sometimes.

There was this time when I had a crush on a girl named Christina. Wow, she was the bees knees. She had dark hair, dark eyes and she was so pretty. When I knew Christina, she was nice to me. Nicer than the girls I knew at the time. I think I met her in the summer; through a good friend. At that time in my life, she was all I could think about. I remember making a drawing that had her name in it, and still to this day I am proud of that drawing, I was 12.

We didn't get to hang out much, and rarely alone. She lived on the other side of town. But still I made my way over. Jeremy was my best friend then and he didn't live too far from her. At that time in my life, like most 12 year olds, I had a circle of friends. Looking back I had a great circle of friends at that time. I would often spend the weekends at Jeremy's house, sometimes leaving home friday night and returning Sunday after church.

Christina had a friend named Julie, another girl in that neighborhood. Julie was great, and some how owned Jeremy's heart. I never understood why he liked her and he never understood why Christina was the one for me. It worked out perfect for us. We could talk about our "hot babes" without any jealously of each other. How funny we were then. How innocent. If any of the things that Jeremy and I had talked and dreamed about actually came true... oh man we would have been in trouble.

I remember one night in particular, Julie was having her birthday party, and it was a big deal. This would be the first birthday party I had ever been to with both boys and girls since I was a kid. The best thing was I didn't have to go home that night. I made plans to stay at Jeremy's house for the weekend. Julies family was cool and hip and gave us the basement for the whole night. Now don't get me wrong, we were chaperoned, but very lightly.

For food we got pizza, and for drink we got soda. Never any complaints with those two! The movie for the night was Dumb and Dumber. At the time the movie had just come out to VHS. There was no way my parents, or Jeremy's parents would have ever let us seen that movie.

I guess even at that time I turned to the drink at hand for reassurance, and probably drank way more soda than I actually needed. Well that caught up to me finally. In the movie there is this incredibly gross bath room scene involving Jeff Bridges and a bottle of "Turbo Lax". I'm sure you get the picture. I found that scene astoundingly funny. I laughed so hard that I started to pee. I was able to make it to the bathroom for some relief, but most of the damage had been done. O man. How embarrassing.
I never did get the date I wanted with Christina. And minus the peeing thing, that was one of the best parties from my teenage years.

I am sitting here in Dubrovnik watching Dumb and Dumber again with Zoey, 16 years later. I guess I have grown up or something, because this movie is nowhere near as funny as I remembered it. Any one have a similar story?