TGIF

Do you remember how awesome it was when we were young and Friday would come along? After the last bell would ring, how exciting it was to think about all the cool things you’re gonna do that night and the adventures you’ll have with your friends over the weekend. Friday afternoon would come and I was as happy as the first time I was ever invited to a birthday party at Chuck-E-Chesses’. Man! Me and whatever best friend I had at the time would meet and figure out whose house we were going to have a sleepover at. Hands down sleepovers were the BOMB.

One thing I would always love to do at a sleepover was to either build a fort with sheets and blankets or watch a movies (usually horror). Anytime I had friends over at my place we would always build a fort. I had a one bed bunk-bed, meaning that I always got to sleep on the top bunk. My dad would always get me the coolest stuff. Since my bed was so unique, it was real easy to build a fort. Now, sometimes we would set up a TV inside the fort and watch movies until we all fell asleep. Most of the time we’d have ‘boy talk.’ Real personal and secret stuff. In Elementary school it was usually real innocent stuff about toys and violent video games. As we entered Middle school the conversations would involve into what girl we thought were hot and boobies and violent video games. For the most part harmless pre-teen talk.

MAN! I LOVED FRIDAYS!

Well I still love Fridays. I only wish that we would still have sleepovers. I guess in a sense we still do have sleepovers, just a different type of sleepover. Now we don’t really call them anything. (Maybe stayovers)? After thinking about it, I think we now call them ‘one night stands’ if it involves the opposite sex. (Usually fort building does not occur at these sleepovers). I believe the last sleepover I had on a Friday was when I accidentally feel asleep at my friend’s house as I was watching his dog. Unfortunately there were no forts.

I’ve decided that with my next girlfriend we’ll have a sleepover where we build a fort in my basement and watch horror movies ALL NIGHT LONG. It’ll be mandatory! If she wants Gillis in her life she’ll be building a fort with me. (Thinking like this is probably what keeps me single). Oh how times have changed since we were young.

Another thing I have noticed about Friday is that the childhood excitement comes with each new Friday. People love Friday so much they made a restaurant and three Ice Cube movies just to honor the day. Shoot! Half the movies we love probably take place on a Friday. However, I do wish more movies had scenes of people building forts.