August 17, 2005
Another journal entry from my Go-Bots spiral notebook, written many years ago in a state far, far away (Georgia, to be exact). All spelling and punctuation are verbatim from the book (and pretty flawless in this particular entry):
Nov. 13, 1986
Today clowns came in and gave us a package with things inside. This is what is inside: A magnet that says kids against drugs, and a bumper sticker, 2 packs of life savers candy and a coloring book.
I don't remember this exactly - not as much as I remember the dentist who gave me the toothpaste, which I surreptitiously ate straight from the tube on the bus ride home - and I imagine it has something to do with me BLOCKING IT OUT OF MY MIND. I mean, really, MULTIPLE clowns. And what the shit are they doing talking to kids about drugs?
But, hey, thanks for the Life Savers, which are really good for a seven-year-old kid wearing Husky size Rustlers who'll grow up with a weight issue. But who hasn't, incidentally, done any drugs. (But will cry and hold himself at the thought and/or sight of clowns.)
Posted by starlen at August 17, 2005 8:44 PM
