Laugh Our Brains Out
10-24-2000
I'm walking through an old neighborhood, supposedly some place I grew up in, but I hardly recognize anything. There are people I know, however, and I stop off in a run-down school to say hello to someone. A kid named Pawlik pulls into the hallway, barely fitting his beat-up formula-One car up to a gasoline well. I get the impression he's out of gas, but when he unscrews the gas cap, his tank is overflowing. Nonetheless, he tops it off. I comment on the studipity as gas overflows and spills when he recaps it (a hose had to be inserted inside, which displaced fuel).
I enter a locker room. Aside from lockers and a tile floor, there's an old-fashioned tub with a clear screen. The showerhead is running water, and there are lots of guys around. Someone is somehow wrapped up and suspended horizontally in the shower screen, being dowsed with water, and for some reason it's the most hilarious thing I've seen in a long time. I laugh so hard, I'm surprised I didn't wake up. Gaver the class clown is there with a video camera, showing a tape of a similar event pulled back in the day. We watch the tape, which basically consists of someone being pushed around and sprayed with water or something. We laugh our brains out.
Evan is there, interacting with everyone like a normal person, and I marvel at how far he's come since his first day in the autistic classroom.
posted by Phlegm at 11/26/2003
