Well….I’ve been thinking but not more than is required to function (or at least I try not to). First of all, I’d like to personally give a shout out to my boy Cory Reeves for some material to blog about. Anywho, my little brother Addison just recently had a birthday as well, (the big 14!) and all he wanted was clothes, which made me think of days past. He’s in the 8th grade, which basically means his life revolves around vocabulary tests, grabbing ass, snack bars, begging for change from your buddies and preparing for the TAKS test…….….ok, im gonna go off subject here for a sec. I don’t really have high regards for the TAKS test. I mean….ok. The TAKS test is a freaking joke. And what amazes me is that kids (somehow) still seem to fail it. I can remember when I was in 11th grade, this guy I played football with (whom will not be named) happened to fail the TAKS test 3 times…yes, no need to go back and read it again, he in fact failed it 3 times. I understand that not everyone has the same intellectual capabilities as others and shoot, I may have been the same way if I had been put in his shoes. But, the crutches they give you in high school don’t prepare you for the real world what so ever. Life doesn’t consist of multiple choice questions and you certainly won’t have a C.A.T. room at your job to reduce all your problems to 50/50 answers…….i digress. NOW back to the subject at hand. Middle school. A lot has changed since those good ol days. It’s funny to look back and laugh at how freakin’ ignorant we were. Life, for me at least, pretty much consisted of Football, skateboarding with my hooligan friends, and talking on the phone with girls for hours about….absolutely nothing worth even noting now haha. Geez, we were so stupid!!!! In like 3rd and 4th grade, you weren’t shit unless you had JNCO jeans. They are the most hideous things I have ever seen!! It seriously looked like someone was wearing a long denim dress, but one on both legs. And they had pockets on the back of them that you could easily smuggle a baby across international lines in. We wore button down shirts UNBUTTONED and UNTUCKED with a white shirt underneath it and Doc Martins. The bigger the sole on your Doc Martins (which made you look taller) the better!!! If it were summer, you better have on blue jean shorts (or as I like to call them “JORTS”) and leather sandals (not flip flops). Girls wore M.U.D.D. brand blue jeans and tight little “choker” necklaces.
As we transitioned into middle school, brand names were even more important. 6th grade was the year of the Adidas throw back “RUN DMC” style shoes. White leather was preferred. You also HAD to have the L.L. Bean backpack with your initials embroidered into the back of it ………..And then…there was…………..the skateboard scene. We were rockin’ those skateboard brands like nobody’s business. All the guys decided to grow their hair out (where mine reigned supreme if I do say so myself). We thought we were cooler than the other side of the pillow. We wore our skate t-shirts like badges of honor (when we even wore shirts). Our shoes were D.C, DVS, Adios, Fallen, checkered VANS, Lakai, Etnies. They were laced with “shoe-goo” to keep them from falling in half. I honestly can’t even remember what girls wore. Abercrombie was about it. We used to sit in class and come up with a plan to go out and grab as many girls’ asses as humanly possible. It was sexual harassment AT ITS VERY VERY BEST. We would be like “so…how many did you get?”……”12. How many did you get?”…..”bout 37 or so”…..I was quick-hands Mcgee in between classes. My long arms came in handy ;^)
From 7th grade until about 10th grade, things switched up a bit. American Eagle and Hollister reigned KING OF APPAREL, where I know on any given day you could catch me in a AE button down shirt, AE jeans and AE shoes….not to mention my AE necklace and underwear. Boxers or briefs you might ask ladies? I’ll never tell…. Somewhere during this time, us fellas discovered “hey, square toed boots are cool. These will go great with my boot-cut jeans.” And we rocked Affliction shirts. We looked like a bunch of eagles walking around. All our shirts had wings on the back of em; shiney/glittery wings…cause we were badasses like that lol…Girls wore SKIN TIGHT miss me jeans and you couldn’t even slide a finger in. Believe me, I tried.
Nowadays, everyone has branched out into their own style. You’ve got your guys that wear their Chaps polos and boots. Your “cool guys” that still haven’t figured out that Affliction and Tap Out aren’t cool (along with white Oakelys). Some guys start wearing expensive jeans and shirts (putting up the money front). And then I fall somewhere in the middle…a plain denim button down or t-shirt will do me just fine. Maybe I’ll wear my boots today, or my white boat shoes, or my vans , or jordans haha. No wonder nobody can figure me out. Hell, I can’t figure me out. It’s whatever I’m feelin….speaking of feelin’, I feel like watching a movie. My hands are tired. I’ve got “It’s kind of a funny story” in the bluray. Unknown Zach Galifinakus movie. Check it out.
Post your comments BELOW or maybe your own thoughts of retarded stuff you did when you were a kid... Until next time, avoid any vacations to Japan.
