flashback

flashback

I don’t know what made me think of this
it just popped in my head like most of my flashbacks do

I don’t remember what year it was
sometime in the early 80’s

I had gone to a classmates birthday party
as a party favor I was given a pack of puffy stickers
It was woody woodpecker and friends..

I was quite pleased by this gift

When I was a kid you appreciated stuff like this!
I wasn’t showered with gifts on a daily basis like kids are today
now a days most kids are so spoiled - not all - but MANY -
and get so much stuff they don’t appreciated shit...
they just want more and more and more
and their parents give them whatever they want.
It’s actually kind of sad - because they will never value anything
I’m veering off the topic aren’t I...

okay - anyway - as I was saying
I was so mesmerized by this great gift I had just received!
I went home and showed my mom
she said.. “that’s nice”

Later that night I went to bed
I placed the stickers on the side of my bed across from my
pillow so I could look at them before I fell asleep

I wake up the next morning and I see in front of me
just the white card that they came on..
NO STICKERS??!?!?

Then I notice in the corner of my eye
woody woodpecker stuck in my hair... I pulled it out
It hurt like hell.

Then I felt the back of my head
more stickers...
AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

I spent the next 20 minutes
painfully pulling each sticker out of my hair
and placing it back on the white card

How the hell did they ALL get stuck in my hair
there had to be atleast 12 of them on that card
What he hell was I doing in my sleep??!
THE ENTIRE PACKAGE - STUCK TO MY HEAD - WTF?

The stickers were still sticky
and I was able to salvage all of them

but still... it was tragic.

It was a tragic puffy sticker incident.

I don’t remember if I told anyone
If I did tell my mother she probably just said
“that’s nice”
Because nobody ever listens to a god damn thing I say..

and that’s my flashback