Today instead of the usual Monday potluck, I am pulling one of my favorite stories out of the archives.
For a reason.
A really good reason.
Please read to the end to find out why…
Holly was once a teenager.
Although Holly is naturally
perky, the teenage years turned Holly’s perkiness into
springy teenage angst.
Springy teenage angst can be identified by continuous eye-rolling and hyper-debating.
Holly’s bobbing head in
off-beat time to her walkman was seen wandering around her room and on the well beaten track to the bathroom she shared.
It may have been because Holly lived directly across from her parents bed room…
It may have been because the family needed a break from all the eye-rolling…
It may have been because someone needed to go to the bathroom…
SOMETHING caused Holly’s dad came up with a brilliant idea!
Genius Holly’s dad…
Let’s build Holly a room in the basement!
Holly’s dad built walls.
Holly’s dad built a bathroom.
Holly’s dad put carpet on the floor.
This new room was very helpful in containing Holly’s teenage angst.
This new room was very helpful in containing Holly’s mess.
Holly did not live alone
in her mess.
Holly’s dog didn’t seem to mind the long hours in the bathroom, the constant eye-rolling or the mess.
At the time Holly thought the room was nice.
Now that Holly is no longer suffering from teenage angst she can fully admit that the room was teenage nirvana.
Well, almost teenage nirvana. There was one time when Holly found a small garden snake under her bathroom rug.
And then Holly suffered from
legitimate angst.
The End.
This is not the end of the story!
There is more…
After a series of crazy coincidences, I found that
this very room that my dad built for me was later the home of fellow blogger, Jennifer from Thursday Drive. ย She writes about it
HERE.
Jennifer {who I love dearly and think is one of the most amazing writers I have ever read} is in the middle of a mess. ย Over a year ago she and her children moved across the country to start a new life after a divorce. ย The kids went to visit their dad a few weeks ago and
didn’t return. ย Jennifer is in need of some help to enforce the custody agreement and see her children again.
If there is any way that you can help, please
check out her story on Go Fund Me. ย Thank you so much.
Now GO before I start rolling my eyes.
Oh how I wish I had my own basement ’cause then my mom wouldn’t see EVERYDAY how messy my room was and I wouldn’t have heard EVERYDAY that it was a pigsty and I HAD to clean it up before I would see any boys in football or basketball uniforms. (That threat always worked…must make a note of that for my own dd).
Ok is this before the eye rolling got you shipped of to Siberia???
I was so excited there for a second I thought we could be relatives.. You know the whole secret life of Dr. Phil thing..
Oh no! Why did it have to end there?! *G* As always…LOVE the animated stories!
Nice! I would have loved a bedroom like that! I am pretty sure my parents tried to get the neighbors to take me. I was a door slammer and deliberate stomper.
Can’t wait to read the rest. Did you roll your eyes at the snake?
Ha ha ha!!! This not only reminded me of my own life in the 80’s, but of life at home with my current teenager. Isn’t the floor there to store clothes, clean or otherwise?
I had K-Swisses. They were my cheerleading shoes.
My room was smaller and messier than this. We did have two bathrooms, though. One for my parents and one for me and my sister.
KEEP BELIEVING
I’m so jealous of teenage Holly because I couldn’t afford Keds!
I love stories from the 80’s! I don’t know if you know this but on my blog, I post entries from my teenage journal at the end of every month.
I forgot to add – at least you emptied the dishwasher, my kids think it’s gross, and I have to remind them that the dishes are actually clean.
Don’t even ask about filling it.
I can’t believe that you only had five pairs of shoes!!
Even I, as a teenaged angsty boy, had more than five pairs of shoes.
I love comparing the teenaged properly groomed hair to the hair of the I-Have-three-boys Holly from today. ๐
I LOVE cliffhangers!!
Wow, that is some cliffhanger. I can’t imagine what’s coming next!