Re. “Landon guys” and parties
SCRIBE 1844 Volume Sixty-Five The Holton-Arms School
Hey, this is the only way well be able to control everyone? Cheryl Amitay and Mrs. Amitay prepare for their Halloween party. W e just brushed with Pearl Drops Toothpolish. Betsy Kingley, Catherine Colby, and Lulu Ward with a bunch of Landon guys.
While the Parents Were Out Cast parties, prom parties, postgame parties, pool parties, slumber parties, Senior only parties, Junior only parties — wherever you looked there were parties. There were parties to celebrate college acceptances, parties to celebrate the ‘rents absence, parties to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, Arbor Day, and then there were parties just to plain celebrate. There were party diehards, party newcomers, and plain partiers. There were parties with munchies, parties with kegs, parties with costumes and s o m e parties with only people. But all parties had one thing in c o m m o n — a lot of smiles. Parties usually began in an incredibly altruistic person’s mind. H e figured that since the parents were out for the month, and nobody had anywhere to go, he would invite a couple intimate friends over for a couple of hours or until someone ruined the heirloom Persian rug in the living room, whichever c a m efirst.However, to his great dismay, the youths from the entire
Washington-Metropolitan area arrived on his doorstep claiming to be acquaintances of his from his infancy. And since he had no armed guards at his door, he had to let them in. (It was going to rain that night and he didn’t feel like cleaning up the toilet paper on his lawn all the next day.) With the guests c a m e several cartons of beverages slightlytoxicto the h u m a n system and pretty soon his heirloom Persian rug had been ruined by not one but several people. Then from the den he heard his father’s carefully tuned woofers and tweeters blasting Def Leppard. Then he witnessed his entire month’s supply of food being consumed by total strangers. S o m e o n e bricked his dog, while another person hurled bottlecaps at his mother’s portrait on the dining room wall. S o what did this poor wretch whose life expectancy was one month (until his parents got h o m e ) do? H e had a party next weekend, what else?
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