AUGUST 11TH, 2003: CLASSIC JANET MOMENTS
The first friend that I remember was a girl called Sarah. At the time I was somewhere between 2 and 4, so I guess that she was the same age. One day we took off from our parents and up into her attic so that we could play tea parties. We moved states and that was it. I was only a tot, so it isn’t really relevant. The person that I have been a friend with for the longest is Janet, with whom I am still a friend to this day. We met at primary school the day she cut the buttons off my school dress. Goodness only knows how we became friends. However we were never really best friends, but to this day I think that she is great to hang out with. We went to each other’s parties as children. Our parents were completely different. Where my parents are generally liberal, hers were stringent Christians. As she was the youngest, and the age gap was tremendous, her parents tried to stifle her. I guess the worst thing that they did was send her to private school- they always seem to be in more trouble.
So during her years at an expensive school that I could only dream of attending, we never saw each other, until the day that we discovered that we were both going on exchange at the same time.
I went to Hungary; she did her stay in Belgium. All exchange students come back a little rebellious, or drunk. And when we came back, and went to the same school, her parents blamed me for everything. ME! Even Janet found that amusing. She would be the one that would suggest going out for a drink during class, and the one who introduced me to the very cheap, very intoxicating sherry. If anyone was led astray, it was myself, but I don’t think that anyone needed convincing. I wanted to get blind as much as her. She just allowed her parents to believe that it was my entire fault, even encouraged it. Not that I cared.
The first time that our current state of relationship began was the first night that we went to Wank City with Mandy. Janet at the time was underage, but that didn’t stop us. She latched onto the arm of an older guy and waltzed right in the door. I had more difficulty because I had left my identification behind.
But that is how things have been between us ever since. During the last year of high school we would get drunk during high school (she is the one that got me drunk the one and only time that I threw up from drinking, then proceeded to pass out on the school oval during the lunch break), we’d go around to Helena’s (another story there) and have a few drinks, hit the pubs and generally get drunk. Yes, ours is a drinking relationship. I don’t know how we would get along sober; we haven’t really done it in a long time. We get together, get drunk. I have very few, if any, inhibitions around her. She is fun and I really hope that our relationship stays this way forever. Hey, we’ve known each other for 18 years now; I’d say that it would just keep on evolving.
I miss her living in Centre City, because she was so much fun. In fact, she was in the room the night that I got pregnant. No, not in that manner, just in the room. It was a full house, my little brother and his work mate in my bedroom whilst they were over for training, Jenny in her bedroom, Alien visiting for the Olympics, Janet, Mark and myself. All in a small 2 bedroom flat which is generally only big enough for 2. I loved that flat; it was my favourite of all the places.
So whilst we thought that everyone was asleep Mark and myself had sex. That is how Janet came to be involved in it. It wasn’t until a month later after the holiday from hell that I realized how much fun she really was. At the time she was 7 months pregnant (and I myself was 1 month along with out the slightest idea that I was) and she must have been having some problems or just didn’t want to be there because she came and stayed at my flat, for 2 weeks. What ensued was a 2-week drinking binge with Marty and Julie, my neighbours. One each subsequent pay day we would by a slab of beers, consume it within 24 hours, then spend the following days until the next pay day drinking cheap wine. Essentially we were drunk from waking to sleeping each day for 2 weeks. Janet also smoked some dope. Her little girl, Bella, does nothing for the idea that drinking and smoking whilst pregnant will stunt the child’s growth, because she is a BIG kid. Really, she is the size of a kid 2 years older!
How did it all go down from there? Well, at the time Janet was dating (still is in fact) Matthew, Bella’s father, but no one else knew of the pregnancy. Her parents had not been told and were not going to, because Bella had the notion that she was going to have the child in secret (she had been taping her belly to hide the lump) and put her up for adoption. I did not encourage this; I will state that right now. I thought that she should just tell her parents and get it over and done with. However one night while she was staying at my place a baby was found in a box at a bus stop. A search began for the mother of the child, hence every woman pregnant at the time and close to being due, was examined by a woman officer. So how did this give her away? Shouldn’t the police have kept it all secret? Then again, how were they to know that her parents didn’t know?
I think it followed like this- the police called the dormitory where she was living, who said that they had not seen her. That was followed by a call to her parents who at that moment discovered that she was pregnant. I am assuming that they said that it was in relation to the baby found at the bus stop and because Janet appeared to be missing it became urgent. They had no idea where she was so they rang Matthew who informed them she was with me.
At the time of their arrival there was a storm and Jenny’s room flooded! So it became a hectic night. We were removing electrical goods from Jenny’s room, the police knock on the door, we’re more than likely drunk, and then Janet has to explain everything to her parents. She moved back in with them not long after that. And I miss her.
I went out with her a few months ago and had an absolutely great time. But there are some classic moments. The above is one of them (and the best because it meant that she got to keep Bella), however there are other times. One instance is when I was going home with some man called Robert. She turned to him and said; “I hope you don’t have AIDS, because if you hurt her I will kill you.”
But I think one of the most memorable was the time we got Helena arrested. We didn’t mean it, but looking back it is a funny time. Helena doesn’t remember it that way, but she is more uptight than I am, so who cares?
It was during school hours in the early days of summer. The temperatures were reaching the 40’s (and Europe is complaining about a heat wave! That is normal summer temperatures for us. Hell, wait for my complaints when it hits) so we decided, as was normal, to get a few beers and head to Helena’s place. Because Helena had not been out in a very long time as evening drew nearer we decided to take her to the nearest pub for a few games of drunken pool. But it wasn’t until the way home that the amusement began.
We decided to stop off at the supermarket so that I didn’t wet myself. Janet was buying cigarettes and Helena was stumbling around outside. During my entire trip to the loo she had not even managed to get inside. As I came out I saw her reach the sliding doors and fall over. The security guard told me to wait and not go near her, as 2 seconds later there was 2 police officers peeling her off the pavement and tossing her in the back of the divvy van.
It may not sound funny, but it looked it. She as completely off her tree, the security guard saved us from getting into trouble, and to this very day Helena is still mad at us!
I think, apart from it being a weekday, her infamy with the local police for selling marijuana is what got her towed away for the night. Oh, it was a cracker, believe you me. And a classic night with Janet.
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