anyone know where i can find that post with the video of that one guy playing that terrible skyrim romance mod story because i need to watch that shit again
You ever have one of those overdramatic things you say in junior high and then gets stuck in your brain for a very long time? This is one of those.
I was not into the series back in junior high, I had (have) a low tolerance for embarrassment and got creeped out easy. I’d seen some of the series, and knew it wasn’t for me.
My junior high and high school were right next to each other, sharing a pool. In 8th grade I had already passed all the math my charter school had to offer (so… algebra), and had to walk down the hill and past the pool to geometry on the high school campus (which was mildly terrifying because, even though I haven’t grown more than an inch since that grade, all the high schoolers seemed SO MUCH BIGGER than me).
(This class was also the reason I actually started wearing the glasses that had been prescribed to me for at least a year – I often ended up in the back and was too shy to ask anyone around me when I couldn’t see the board.)
So I’m hanging out in one of my classrooms in the junior high before class starts and the people there cluster around to watch salad fingers. At that point I nope out, and head down my usual path to actually get to geometry a bit early for once.
Early into that class, the entire combined campus goes on lockdown for the first and only time in my educational career. And it’s not a drill.
Cell phones weren’t allowed to be used, but one of my classmates had an EMT or something as a parent and even the teacher wanted details so we got the breaking news. A girl was stabbed shortly after classes started, on the path I walked by the pool.
It was a little shocking that something had actually happened so close. (The only other brush with big crime the school saw in my time was the library burning down that summer. A boy’s bathroom ended up with a little fire nearly every year, but that was more of a dumb smoker thing.) Later speculation brought up the question of what would have happened if I had dawdled before leaving for math like I sometimes did. Would I have seen something, had I passed at the normal time? Could I have possibly been involved? Thus, the line “Salad fingers saved your life” was uttered with maybe grain of seriousness.
(The answer is no, we found out later the girl had stabbed herself. But some phrases just stick in your brain.)
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