I always enjoy going to my friend Steven's house, it's laugh after laugh and great fun excluding all the racism and homophobia etc.
And i was off to stay again yesterday, in celebration of his birthday.
Alex came too and Steven's brother was around as well.
We didn't go to his house straight away, he picked me up at about 11am, then Alex, then off to this big fun centre place with loads of different places inside. (forgot it's name =P)
We played crazy golf firstly, which was awesome, i played not bad, neither did Steven, Alex played a stinker but Steven's dad won in the end.
Just loads of banter flying around though so the final score wasn't all that important but about halfway through, an incident occured. This group of 2 or 3 young children were running around and getting in the way, so Steven's dad told them to stop or else he would "wrap the gold club around their head"
Smooth.
Coz near the end of our round, their parents approached us and had a go at Steven's dad. He argued that they shouldn't have been unsupervised in the first place, but he was the one that threatened them at the end of the day.
It was quite a serious although funny thing to watch but ultimately, they were both in the wrong.
(Anyway, i've learnt from that that Steven's dad doesn't take any shit, you don't wanna mess with him.)
With that all behind us, we headed for Burger King and then went Ten-Pin Bowling.
Now, i never considered myself to be any good at it, and i was secretly not looking forward to it (would happily have gone straight home) but i surprised myself!
And i would have won, if it weren't for Steven's brother using the barriers to stop his ball rolling off =P
I enjoyed it again and found i was actually not bad at it (got 3 strikes!) the rest played averagely (haha) apart from Alex who again played awful lol.
To add to things, the parents and their children at the crazy golf showed up in the lane next us (call it a coincidence) but they never said anything.
:S
They clearly weren't bothered about earlier and were just trying to make something big out of nothing at all.
So, after this we headed to Steven's house and listened to Muse in the car, us three looking like loonies bouncing around in the back lol.
When we got there, the Arsenal game was put on.
Wasn't too exciting.
Me and Alex cheered when West Ham scored just to piss off Steven and his dad but Arsenal went onto win 2-1.
Not much happened after that until later but it marked the start of Steven and his dad sharing their discrimination when they felt necessary.
And they clearly felt very necessary.
Now i admit, while they can be funny, what they said kinda got to me but i just sorta pretended to laugh and didn't say anything to add to it.
The house seems works on a "whatever you want to say, say it....as long as it's rude and insulting" policy.
I didn't really chip in.
Honestly.
But some of the things said were a bit much.
I know to expect that in Steven's house but it still annoys me, it's the only downside really.
Things like :
Muslims offering their sons to Hamas as suicide bombers cause they found that there sons were gay.
(Double whammy there)
This was said by Steven in front of his dad as well. He doesn't care what you say, there are no rules there which is cool but it means things like that are said.
Unfortunately, it didn't get much better.
After his dad went to bed the porn channel was put on.
*Yawn*
Then more gay jokes started - mostly from Steven.
*Yawn*
The matresses were placed in the living room for the three of us, so we had the big tv and wouldn't disturb anyone else.
It was getting late and the porn and gay jokes weren't entertaining me at all so i went to sleep, leaving them to say what they liked.
But this is where the worrying part happened.
I woke up at some point and the tv was still on and they were still talking, so i just pretended to be asleep, but they were talking about me....rather, talking about my sexual preferences.
How nice of them, behind my back.
I think i latched onto the end of the conversation but here it is anyway.
It was Alex who said, "Did you notice something about Rowan?"
Steven : "Huh, what?"
Alex : "Well, he fell asleep when we were watching porn."
*Silence*
Alex : "You would have thought he'd be interested in it, no?"
Steven : "I dunno, maybe he was just tired"
Alex : "Well, to tell you the truth.....i've wondered for a while if maybe he was.....gay"
*I'm petrified at this point*
Steven : "Nah, he's not one of them, he's not a bum-bandit"
*Ha*
Alex : "I'm not sure"
Steven : "He better not be"
And with tht it ended, although we did talk together later about school and stuff....nothing was mentioned but i wasn't getting much sleep after that.
I just felt like yelling at Steven.
Not so much at Alex coz i don't know where he stands on it, but it's a dead-cert with Steven. He wouldn't be happy if he knew.
Alex is one of the only two people i've ever thought about confiding in it with, but now i'm having second thoughts.
Either way, i'm not looking forward to seeing them tomorrow.....in school.
Which brings me nicely to school actually.
This holiday has just flown by, wasn't the most enjoyable holiday, was nice to relax but tomorrow marks the start of the so-called "Term of hell"
Tests, Prelims, Studying, Exam Preparation.
And the rest.
It's gonna be tough, and as i've said previously, my posts may be limited in the next few months. Although i've done okay so far i don't know how bad things might get.
I have my Spanish speaking exam on the same day as the Wolfmother concert in a few weeks. And the prelims start at the end of this month. The final exams start at the end of April, are spread throughout May and finish in early June.
So i fully expect to be bombarded with work.
Wow. It's come quick.
That's really all i've got to say for now,
I've got to go and prepare for tomorrow, oh joy, i'll probably post again a couple of times this week and i'll let you all know if/when it's getting tough to do so.
Cheers,
Rowan
