I was listening to one of my playlists a while ago and 'Jesus of Suburbia' started and I just remembered something from my childhood, sooooo...
Story time with Anna.
I was twelve, I think. Or maybe thirteen. The exact age doesn't matter much, what matters is that I was a kid.
And you know what, I was obssessed with Green Day back then. American Idiot was playing everywhere, but Jesus of Suburbia has always been my favorite in that album, so I listened to that song on repeat all the time. (My sister liked the song, but after a while she just got sick of it because I wouldn't stop listening to it.)
Anyway, at the time I was still in english school and I had english lessons three times a week all year long. I loved those classes, my teachers were so fun and they always made up games so we could learn grammar and vocab more easily.
My class had some fifteen students, not the smallest. And one class my teacher came up with this game where he would say a word and we would have to write down a new word for each letter. Each word would earn you ten points if you were the only one to write that word, or five if someone else had written down the same word as you. The first person to complete the task had to yell 'Stop!' and everyone else would have to stop writing immediately. Whoever had the most points would get some chocolate.
So my teacher says a word. I don't remember exactly which one it was anymore, I just remember that it had a C. So I was trying to think the most difficult words I knew at the time because I've always been competitive as fuck and I hated losing, especially when I was kid.
And I was thinking and writing down words as quickly as I could and then I got to that C. You gotta understand, at twelve/thirteen I had a basic knowledge of english at best. The first word that came to my head was car, but I knew everyone else would probably think the same and I would end up getting only five points.
And that's where Jesus of Suburbia comes into this story. Because I looked at that C and the lyrics of that song just came to my head. Specifically, "doing someone else's COCAINE".
There was no fucking way any other thirteen-year-old in that class would think of writing cocaine in their game. Those ten points were mine.
MY TEACHER'S FACE WHEN HE WAS GIVING THE POINTS TO MY GAME. OMG, IT WAS PRICELESS.
He was so flustered because he had not taught me that but at the same time he couln't not give me the points because the word was correct.
You can bet I won that freaking chocolate. 😂
