St. Louis Park High School Class of 1996 20th Reunion: Terri’s Timeline (Part One)
10:30 a.m. Terri wakes up, takes an autoerotic bubble bath while listening to the cassette maxi single for “Dressed for Success” by Roxette, and puts on her purple velour road trip jumpsuit.
I'm not afraid, a trembling flower
11:15 a.m. Terri loads her suitcase, her cooler, and her deluxe Caboodle full of cosmetics into her arctic white Kia Sephia and hits the road. She will be driving to St. Louis Park from her home in Ankeny, Iowa, just outside Des Moines.
Another town where I get close to the bone
12:45 p.m. Terri finishes her 22-ounce thermos of cranberry lime hard lemonade and stops at a Kum & Go to buy Newports, chablis, and pork rinds.
Hit the road out of nowhere, I had to jump my car
1:30 p.m. Terri pulls into a rest stop to see if she’s finally got a visit from the new rare cat on that damn app she can’t stop playing. The cat is not there, but she goes to the bathroom and refills her thermos.
I love the way you sway your hips next to mine
2:00 p.m. Some asshole on the radio is complaining about neighbors who don’t clean up dog poop in their yard. Terri screams, “What a fucking loser!” and changes the channel to WLOL, which is playing some crap rap.
Banging on the head drum
2:30 p.m. Terri parks her car at the La Quinta Inn & Suites in Brooklyn Park and thinks that the place looks like a shithole. The woman working there has a thick Spanish accent and a goddamn pierced nose.
She’s a juvenile scam
3:00 p.m. Terri changes into the Lee jeans she bought at Knollwood County seat in 1995 that still fit her and an oversized magenta T-shirt she likes to wear off the shoulder. She does her hair with the assistance of a curling iron and lots of Aqua Net, and then moves on to her special event makeup routine.
Look sharp!
4:45 p.m. Terri arrives at the Brooklyn Center Old Chicago where she’s meeting her two best friends from high school, Linda and Deanna, to pregame. They try to order the nasty peach Boone’s Farm, which was their favorite drink in high school, but Old Chicago doesn’t carry Boone’s, so they order Long Islands instead.
Tasty like a raindrop
5:30 p.m. Linda admits she is hoping to hook up with Ryan Cutler after the reunion if he still looks anything like he did in high school. He had tight buns and silky blond hair.
And in the dark things happen faster
5:45 p.m. Deanna almost falls off her stool when she bends down to get her purse and show some photos of her dogs. Terri can see the top of Deanna’s butt crack and feels a tingle throughout her erogenous zone.
I'll feed your heart and blow the dust from your eyes
6:10 p.m. Linda says, “No offense but fuck those dogs! I want a piece of ass tonight!” Deanna looks slightly upset and starts drinking more quickly.
Heavenly bound
6:45 p.m. Terri orders birthday cake shots to slam before they leave for the reunion. Deanna says, “Remember when you got so drunk, you broke that shelf?”
Never was a quitter
Discovered Passion: A Serial Story in Sentences (Part One)
The woman who was unsure about the direction her life had taken looked down at the denim jewelry that decorated her arms and fingers and imagined what could happen before the end of the night, but she wasn’t aware of the man who had meant so much to her back in Louisiana who was glancing at her with a look of desire and, in his mind, already thought of her as the denim fantasy woman he associated with hazy memories of days they had experienced together in a past that felt like another world.
Svetlana’s MTV Memories
Yes hello, my name is Svetlana Slutskova. I am 27 years old Russian pretty lady originally from Zheleznodorosky, a city east of Moscow, but now I live in Minneapolis area and work at kiosk in Mall of America called It Is Customized!
As young girl in Moscow, my brother Kirill and I absolutely loved American TV shows, movies, pop culture in general. But especially MTV. Many of MTV VJs were huge star in Russia, especially Pauly Shore. I do not know about in U.S.A., but in Russia 1980s, Paul Shore was considered sex icon. As a young girl, I would lie in bed and dream that he would come to my room and have sex with me many times.
My brother did not Pauly Shore so much, but he had huge crush on Simon Rex. When he found out through homosexual friend in St. Petersburg that Simon Rex did masturbation video called Young and Hard 6, he become obsessed with locating the tape. Finally he went to black market gay shop in very bad neighborhood in Moscow and paid six hundred rubles for VHS. He was obsessed with video, and watched it again and again until the tape no longer could be played.
Now I do not watch so much MTV, because it is trash like Super Sexy 16 and Teenage Pregnant Sluts with Bad Fathers, but if it comes back to days like when downtown Julie Brown and Escape Club were popular, I would definitely become huge fan once again.
10:30 a.m. Terri wakes up, takes an autoerotic bubble bath while listening to the cassette maxi single for “Dressed for Success” by Roxette, and puts on her purple velour road trip jumpsuit.
I'm not afraid, a trembling flower
11:15 a.m. Terri loads her suitcase, her cooler, and her deluxe Caboodle full of cosmetics into her arctic white Kia Sephia and hits the road. She will be driving to St. Louis Park from her home in Ankeny, Iowa, just outside Des Moines.
Another town where I get close to the bone
12:45 p.m. Terri finishes her 22-ounce thermos of cranberry lime hard lemonade and stops at a Kum & Go to buy Newports, chablis, and pork rinds.
Hit the road out of nowhere, I had to jump my car
1:30 p.m. Terri pulls into a rest stop to see if she’s finally got a visit from the new rare cat on that damn app she can’t stop playing. The cat is not there, but she goes to the bathroom and refills her thermos.
I love the way you sway your hips next to mine
2:00 p.m. Some asshole on the radio is complaining about neighbors who don’t clean up dog poop in their yard. Terri screams, “What a fucking loser!” and changes the channel to WLOL, which is playing some crap rap.
Banging on the head drum
2:30 p.m. Terri parks her car at the La Quinta Inn & Suites in Brooklyn Park and thinks that the place looks like a shithole. The woman working there has a thick Spanish accent and a goddamn pierced nose.
She’s a juvenile scam
3:00 p.m. Terri changes into the Lee jeans she bought at Knollwood County seat in 1995 that still fit her and an oversized magenta T-shirt she likes to wear off the shoulder. She does her hair with the assistance of a curling iron and lots of Aqua Net, and then moves on to her special event makeup routine.
Look sharp!
4:45 p.m. Terri arrives at the Brooklyn Center Old Chicago where she’s meeting her two best friends from high school, Linda and Deanna, to pregame. They try to order the nasty peach Boone’s Farm, which was their favorite drink in high school, but Old Chicago doesn’t carry Boone’s, so they order Long Islands instead.
Tasty like a raindrop
5:30 p.m. Linda admits she is hoping to hook up with Ryan Cutler after the reunion if he still looks anything like he did in high school. He had tight buns and silky blond hair.
And in the dark things happen faster
5:45 p.m. Deanna almost falls off her stool when she bends down to get her purse and show some photos of her dogs. Terri can see the top of Deanna’s butt crack and feels a tingle throughout her erogenous zone.
I'll feed your heart and blow the dust from your eyes
6:10 p.m. Linda says, “No offense but fuck those dogs! I want a piece of ass tonight!” Deanna looks slightly upset and starts drinking more quickly.
Heavenly bound
6:45 p.m. Terri orders birthday cake shots to slam before they leave for the reunion. Deanna says, “Remember when you got so drunk, you broke that shelf?”
Never was a quitter
Discovered Passion: A Serial Story in Sentences (Part One)
The woman who was unsure about the direction her life had taken looked down at the denim jewelry that decorated her arms and fingers and imagined what could happen before the end of the night, but she wasn’t aware of the man who had meant so much to her back in Louisiana who was glancing at her with a look of desire and, in his mind, already thought of her as the denim fantasy woman he associated with hazy memories of days they had experienced together in a past that felt like another world.
Svetlana’s MTV Memories
Yes hello, my name is Svetlana Slutskova. I am 27 years old Russian pretty lady originally from Zheleznodorosky, a city east of Moscow, but now I live in Minneapolis area and work at kiosk in Mall of America called It Is Customized!
As young girl in Moscow, my brother Kirill and I absolutely loved American TV shows, movies, pop culture in general. But especially MTV. Many of MTV VJs were huge star in Russia, especially Pauly Shore. I do not know about in U.S.A., but in Russia 1980s, Paul Shore was considered sex icon. As a young girl, I would lie in bed and dream that he would come to my room and have sex with me many times.
My brother did not Pauly Shore so much, but he had huge crush on Simon Rex. When he found out through homosexual friend in St. Petersburg that Simon Rex did masturbation video called Young and Hard 6, he become obsessed with locating the tape. Finally he went to black market gay shop in very bad neighborhood in Moscow and paid six hundred rubles for VHS. He was obsessed with video, and watched it again and again until the tape no longer could be played.
Now I do not watch so much MTV, because it is trash like Super Sexy 16 and Teenage Pregnant Sluts with Bad Fathers, but if it comes back to days like when downtown Julie Brown and Escape Club were popular, I would definitely become huge fan once again.