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climbs trees with a nylon sleeping bag for a sleep-out party with his friend
puts his bum against the open window of the car so that his silent but deadly fart doesn’t disturb the other car occupants then giggles incessantly for 20 miles
chops off his fingertip with an axe then runs around shaking his hand to increase the polkadot patterning on mums walls
makes a multi-level gerbil cage out of an old sideboard
sings into a microphone strapped to a standard lamp, without removing the lampshade
writes the name of the girl that he loves on the inside flap of his school canvas haversack in different pens, fonts and colours
ramps up the volume on the house stereo and arranges an echo, closes the window blinds, peeks through then whispers in high volume ‘this is the voice of god’ when he sees a schoolchild in uniform walking by outside
earnestly says ‘you’ve failed? how did that happen, you’re the clever one’
Takes me into a record shop and says, you can have any record you want, its on me. I pick the first Album he ever bought ‘Ride a White Swan’ by T.Rex
Persuades a friend to drive him to the warehouse 2hrs away where I’m holding my 21st birthday shindig, Gives me 6 marbles and waits for me to be disappointed, then gives me a hipflask full of Napoleon Brandy saying ‘I was going to have it engraved with to my wonderful sister, but I didn’t’, stays at the warehouse when his friend decides to drive back before midnight
Says of his visits to me at university ‘I wish my time at University had been as good as this’
Calls his first cat ‘f*ck-off’ because the cat followed him back from a superstore and he didn’t want it to, then takes the cat everywhere in his Trenchcoat pocket and renames her Hoagie after Hoagie Carmichael
Drives a soft-top MG Midget despite his head creating a big upward dent in the roof because he’s 6ft4
