high like planes
Jul 27th, 2009 by charlotte
Paper Planes / M.I.A.
July 24th is a holiday here in utah, it is the celebration of pioneers coming into the Salt Lake Valley and Brigham Young saying, “WHAT IS THAT SMELL???”. Fortunately for me I got the day off of work. I spent a lot of the day trying to relax but mostly fretting over all the things I wasn’t getting done – yay for being an adult. i did somehow manage to get showered, dressed, and in heels in time for a party at Alice’s house in Magna.
the party was a rousing time, since the most important thing to do on a mormon holiday is to get drunk, and despite the fact that the lovely Alice forgot that the liquor store would be closed on a state holiday we had plenty to get drunk off of. and before sundown aiden had to drag me away from the bottle of baileys so that we could attend sidestreet firework home show edition with his parents. and herein lies the problem with this state holiday: people get so damned excited about fireworks!
they have a show at the park near aiden’s parent’s home and no matter what we did we could not seem to avoid the traffic. the baileys started to wear off and i was getting a little annoyed – i may have shouted “Come on!” at a group of teenagers who ran in front of our car while we had a green light. lame. at this point we started weaving through side streets, and this is where it got fun.
apparently i am not the only one who uses the holiday for extracurricular drinking. this guy and his girlfriend(?) were having some kind of street fight in front of a line of cars trying to get away from the park traffic. since it was so hot aiden had the windows open and we definitely caught a lot of words that i wasn’t even aware could be spoken in the state of utah without a lightning bolt coming straight out of the sky and killing the speaker dead. the guy got really fed up and got into his truck and slammed the door – hard.
how hard? so hard that his sideview mirror broke off and slammed against the side of truck hanging on only by a slim wire. aiden and i had been ignoring the guy up to this point but the THWACK from his sideview mirror was a little startling and so we both looked. we also happened to be level with this guy’s car at this point.
this asshole looked straight at aiden and i, before we even had a second to build enough shame to look away and pretend we hadn’t seen or heard, and said, “What the FUCK are you looking at?!?!?!”
And I couldn’t help it, I started laughing like a crazy person. Fortunately the traffic started moving because I am pretty sure that this guy would have gotten out of his car and killed me. there is nothing like a utah holiday to remind you that street fireworks are so much safer than white trash ones.