Humor
Going Over To Your Friend’s House In The ‘70s
You ride your banana seat Huffy over to your friend’s house and drop it in the lawn. The tassels are missing on one of the handgrips.
You walk into the house and immediately take off your shoes so you don’t get dirt on the white shag carpeting. On your right is a room that nobody ever uses. It looks like it belongs in a museum.
Your friend’s mom is in the kitchen, which is carpeted and has shiny, geometrically printed wallpaper. It always smells like bacon grease and cigarettes.
She tells you your friend is in her bedroom listening to records on her pink record player which has a handle and closes up like a briefcase.
Your friend’s mom shows you the macramé hanging plant holder she just got at Kmart for her spider plant.
The manager of the local Kmart is also an attorney who you’ll run into 20 years later and wonder why he looks so familiar. He had the Kmart job for the insurance. True story.
Your friend has a bean bag chair in her room, but it isn’t leaking beans all over like yours is. Your mom had to sew yours up after you jumped on it too hard and it exploded, and there’s silver duct tape over the spot where the dog got ahold of it…
