September 10th-11th 1986

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September 10th 1986

My mom said that if (I) pay (for) half of the skateboard I Can (get it). She will (pay) for the other half. It (costs) 90 $, so all I need is 45 $. It has different colored wheels. And it has two green hands coming out of the middle. It has all the guards, even the protectors.
BackStory: I remember this skateboard in Scheels and I was obsessed with it. It was a light wood color, and hand these two giant green hands ripping out of the center of the deck.  I wish I could find an image of it, but instead I’ve included an image from the popular film “thrashin” which came out the same year to give some context.

thrashin-skateboard-1986

September 11th 1986

Yesterday I went to travis’ house. He looks a lor better. He broke his hip riding on a 3 wheeler. Today is the first day of Library. Tomorrow is Phy Ed. Gordie just fixed the desks. I can’t think of anything to write except for this.

Backstory. My friend Travis got in a bad three wheeler accident and I remember going to his house for some reason. Although at the time I wasn’t very good friends with him.  Gordie was the school janitor. I was always extremely polite to him when I dumped my tray at lunch.

September 12th 1986

Today is my sister’s bithday. She is inviting all her friends. They will go out to the farm in Mckenzie. She has her permit.

September 14th 1986

Today is monday. We have phy-ed today, and music. I think we are going to play soccer. I’m wearing my faded jean jacket and black pants.

September 15th 1986

Today is my brother’s borthday. After school I get to get him a present. We will shop until 5:00. Then we might go to “Bump and Tilt”. (continued on next page) He will be 13. On sunday I went to the farm. I drove the car to the west trees and back. One and a half miles. Now I can shift gears, and back it out. I only got stuck once, but we didn’t have to push.
Backstory: Bump and Tilt was basically one of the coolest placest ever to exist in the history of the world.  It was basically a warehouse, that had bumper cars, foosball tables, air hockey tables, pinball machines, and cabinet style video games. You paid like 5 bucks to get in, and all the games were free. My ex girlfriend actually used to work there selling candy bars when she was like 6 or 7 :) no joke. She was friends with the owners parents so she had the mad “bump and tilt” hookup.  As far s the driving is concerned. This is actually true. I started driving when I was ridiculously small. However it was just like driving 10 to 15 miles per hour on a road going through a field on our farm.

I remember on one occasion my dad played this game called Wizards of War for hours. He got to one of the last levels, and I couldn’t believe he made it since I hadn’t thought he would be good at video games.  Here’s the video of the game he was playing.

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