It's been close to a decade since i no longer am a “teen” . There are some things that i miss about this era of my life, like not worrying about anything or like the only responsibility being doing good in school , but what i miss the most about those days is being part of that l33t group of people with the best cribs ever! I mean think about it... remember crashing at your friend's room after school and it feeling like it was your room? Have you ever though about why did that happen? What was it that made his/her room feel like yours?
Well after a recent talk with my friends about those happy days i came up with the idea that maybe it was some of the stuff that you would find in a teen's room to which every self respecting teen seems to relate. So here's my top 5 list on those things that every teen of my days seemed to have in his/her room:
1] A freaking Rubik's Cube .... Come on, dig deep down your memories and i'm sure that every single one of you out there not only had one, but all of your friends had one as well. It's like the all time classic toy that you'd joggle with when having a conversation with your pals. It didn't matter if it was solved or not... what it mattered was that it was there waiting for you to pick it up and start messing around with it! And for me that was all that mattered after all :P Some of you though may have had friends who had solved it and didn't want you to even touch it, being afraid that you'd mess it up :P
2] The infamous Albert Einstein poster. There was always something intriguing about having the man to whom your parents wanted you to be like, one of the most brilliant minds of man kind, giving you the tongue! It's like subconsciously having someone your parents looked up to giving them the finger without you being in trouble! And don't tell me that this isn't just pure ownage!!!!
3] A Doors CD. Preferably their debut album featuring the one of a kind teen song “ Break on through (to the other side)” . That song seemed to summarize in a unique way all the “I wanna go rebel without a cause” feelings that flood your teenager heart and mind. It was like raising a fist up in the air while the rest of your family is on dinner table dinning. And let's admit it, dinner time was when we all somehow ended up playing it in full volume :P I guess there's something amusing about your dad knocking on your door telling you to keep it down and you pretending that you can't hear shit!
4] A pair of Converse All Star shoes. This was like that “thin red line” that separated the men from the boys... and yeah we were the boys and damn we liked it. No Nike, no adidas... just All Stars. Some of us out there would paint on them, some of us would tie the laces, some of us wouldn't even have laces, some of us would wear them dirty while others would keep them good as new. Whatever the case, they were always there, under your bed, waiting for you to hop in and go on with the rest of your day. One of the true all time classic companions to every teenager's adventures out there!
5] A lighter/empty pack of cigarettes. It didn't matter if you smoked or not. It didn't even matter if it was yours or your friend's. What it matter is that either one of those two was always there. Some of use used to hide that lighter [ as if it would the the compelling evidence of smoking pot ] and some others had it in plain sight. It's not the use of the item that was intriguing, but the item itself. Some of the most weird ass lighters i've seen in my old friends' rooms. A couple featured explicit scenes [ like a naked lady or Lucky Luke doing his horse :P ] while some others had just nice color patterns. The fact is that they were always there.
So there you have it. Those were the things that you'd find in every teenager's room in my time. If you feel that i've left something out, feel free to submit your list as a response. Whatever dudes... time for me to “give you the tongue” , put on my all stars and take off!
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