Yesterdays blog caused the friend who walked home with me to get in touch and we tried to piece the ridiculous house parties together. He told me one of them ended due to frozen prawns bring hurled about. These things were always full of possibilities so long as thrown frozen produce was as exciting as you could imagine. It made me remember long since forgotten names, mostly of girls who I had passing obsessions with. I'd work from one to the other, hormonal infatuation keeping awake at nights and haunting my days. I was absolutely desperate all the time. I didn't really know what for. I know one thing for sure though, it wasn't really as simple as wanting to lose my virginity. I needed my Happy Ever After moment straight away from the age of twelve. Was this the first time the side effects of my parents divorce had effected my life directly, a need for me to be complete. I was thought of myself of one side of a coin and believed that the other side of the coin held all the answers.
I guess there's more stories to come as I'm going to have to go back and scour my diaries from '89, '90.
In other news we went to the newly opened Toys'R us in Bradford last night. Just as good as Leeds one. My boy took toys from the shelves and put them back somewhere else a lot of the time. The members of staff followed us making the shelves straight and  symmetrical  again after us. It was very quiet for opening night. I couldn't do that job because It would drive me crazy having people put things back in the wrong area. My wife does it in the supermarket. She'll pick up an item then three isles later will see a cheaper replacement item and put the first one anywhere. I however will pick it up and walk it back to it's original location. It's the OCD in me which like the table mats in the correct drawers at home. The White go on the right and the brown on the left. If they are the other way round I have to change them. If they are mixed it infuriates me. I have muttered to myself "White on the right, it's obvious" and walked away thinking..."it's not obvious though is it, to anyone else".
But when it's been corrected it feels like I've saved the universe from imploding on itself and the balance to time itself is restored.....so it's important that they go in the right drawers and it's important that I don't work in toys R us.