Mud Surfing in High School, 2003, by Jack Greer

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Who: Jack Greer
What: High School
When: 2003
Where: Los Angeles

Every year at the beginning of winter I become nostalgic for my sophmore year of High School. The first drops of rain remind me of my first girlfriend, my first real parties, and driving around with friends instead of parents for the first time. It was a time when fast food everyday had no consequences and skateboarding came before homework, tv, dinner, and the telephone. When the rain came at the beginning of the school year, my friends and I would pack into our friend Noah's car and head out to the hills in the neighborhood. The rain would create a muddy, slippery surface on the dirt hills. We would hop into the house behind the hill and use their hose to help create a slide of sorts. Each of us would slide down the hill on a skateboard deck, our chests, our butts, or a tumbling ball. Afterwards, in our muddy attire and sopping wet, we would climb into Noah's Ford Bronco and head back to one of our houses to watch the video footage of the event and edit together as one of the sequences that was part of our greater effort to creat a video. Our pranks, embarassments, jokes and stunts were all part of the video that would document our early teenage years. Every year, when the rain comes, I remember the days when there were no obligations and we were all the closest group of friends that we ever would be. I don't think your friends are ever as close as the ones you have your sophmore year in highschool. If it's 20 people or two, those friends were the ones that didn't care when you stepped into their car after 'dirt surfing' in the rain.