girls: get drunk and shoot guns

"you just have to understand the life of a boy".... spencer was in RARE form today, as he waited at my house for me to come home, hanging out with melissa for two and a half hours. kelsey was the angel bringing me home from parker, so she and i walked up to the house, and as she opened the door and i walked in, i looked at melis sitting on the couch. she was smiling kind of funny and i was about to comment on her hair, when WHAM! spencer jumped out from behind the door and scared me enough that i literally screamed out loud and then laughed, and almost fell over.

i love 7 year old neighbors.

love love love.

come to find out, spencer had been waiting for two and a half hours with melissa because he had promised that he would take us to the claw machines (those teasing machines full of tiny, fifty cent stuffed animals you end up paying $7 for?) this weekend and show us how to 'win' all the prizes that he keeps bringing over as presents, "you know, in case you go on a long trip, you can bring these and remember us. so you don't forget me, Abbey the dog, or my mom and dad. you know, for those long trips".

so, it was Claw time. melissa, spencer, kelsey and i piled into melis' car and headed out with our quarters to go and 'win' some prizes. we were quickly informed that the Claw machine at Kings had the best prizes but was pretty much impossible to win. We went here first, "because it was closer" (it's literally across the street from safeway). we spent about a dollar and a half, watching spencer run back and forth, judging the distance from the claw to the prizes, back and forth, back and forth. strategies abounded. we didn't win.

three minutes later we are in safeway, at their claw machine which looks MUCH more promising: rubber balls on one side and a big bin full of candy in the corner. apparently, for two quarters you get one try at the big prize (the ball) and three tries at the candy... but, we were very quickly informed that 'we can win the candy, it's the easiest, but it's been there for like 9 years so when you win it you just have to throw it away. but you can still win it.'

more strategies, back and forth running and $5 dollar later, we the four of us walked out of safeway with two rubber balls (one silver one that had a shark face, and an orange one with eyes, a smile and two tufts of... leaf hair?), my pockets full of candy, and a fairy princess and gold flower ring out of the twisty-quarter machines on the way out. jackpot.

favorite spencer quotes of the day:
"you just have to understand a boy's life"
"a girl's life? sure, they.... get drunk and shoot guns. like hitler's girlfriend"
"it was kyle's girlfriend. or ex girlfriend. or half girlfriend. and she kissed him and stuff..."
"you just have to take a risk!"