Stand-Up

Day 204 (162) – Su-poor Heroes

(Note: this story is a complete fabrication).

Growing up, we weren’t exactly what you would call rich.  Granted we weren’t poor, but we certainly didn’t have all of the luxuries a lot of kids have these days.  We only had a handful of toys, which required us to use our imaginations when playing with the other children.

Halloween was always interesting, because we never got those fancy costumes from the store.  Everything we had was homemade, and we had to be clever about it.  Adam used to carry a baseball bat with him and tell everyone he was “Bat”man.  David would go as Wonder Woman, just saying “I wonder (this)”, “I wonder (that)” all the time.  I would just gather up the spiders I found in my room and go as “Spider”man.

We also used to have this rule where we weren’t allowed to watch TV during the week (this part is true).  My mom thought we would do better at school if that were the case, I guess because we’d be so bored that we’d do our homework just to pass the time.  Thinking back on it, other than being completely out of the loop regarding anything TV at school, it actually was kinda cool.  Because instead of watching stuff on TV, we would make our own videos on this ancient video camera.  Anything that we wanted to watch on TV, we would just make ourselves.  Cartoons, talk shows, action movies.  It was a lot of fun and probably part of the reason I’m so interested in film today.  Things did get a little awkward after puberty though…

(That last part was fiction.)