Finish a small project, and pleased with myself step outside for a celebratory cigarette.
Inhale deeply, and adjust myself.
Perhaps too aggressively.
Too late I look around and lock eyes with a pair of teenagers in the neighbor basement stairs.
They are smoking,
hiding from the school.
I exhale and continue with my adjustment.
Who are they going to tell?
Bad teacher?
ReplyDeleteYou should stop smoking man ;D
ReplyDeleteEh those kids will get no where in life skipping school.
ReplyDeleteAhahahaha
ReplyDelete@Baur
No, school will get you nowhere in life. It's just a giant babysitting corporation.
That's a good teacher there. He knows what's up.
ReplyDeleteYou should have adjusted the fuck out of those kids too.
ReplyDeleteI wish I had skipped school
ReplyDeleteurges be damned.
ReplyDeleteI like the title, it brings the point at the end together. A silent agreement to keep each others secret. Very nicely done.
ReplyDelete2 smokes. Different reasons. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteGreat story! nothing beats the taste of an outside secret smoke!
ReplyDeleteWOW! This story made me laugh out loud. It's short, sweet and to the point. Nice blog man!
ReplyDeleteIt's moments like these that make the day that much more interesting.
ReplyDeleteSo when you say you adjusted yourself too aggressively, does that mean you hurt yourself or was it just too obvious?
ReplyDeleteJust one of the many thoughts that come from such a short but sweet post.
I used to be that kid smoking, hiding from school.
Dumb kids. Hopefully they are filled with regret when they are sitting in a homeless shelter looking at all the kids they thought were nerds drive by laughing in their BMW
ReplyDeleteA somewhat sad poem. =/
ReplyDeleteif you were just smoking, how is this mutual agreement? Something gotto to balance underage smoking. Weed-underage,Drinking-underage,smoking+!@#@@-underage.
ReplyDeleteghostbusters!!!!!! bamp bamp bamp bamp bamp bammm bampp something strange in the neighbour hood... bamp bamp bammp
ReplyDeletereminds me of a certain movie...
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