Memoir

It was last December, and I was going to go to the Steelers game with my cousin Brandon. My mom was the youngest of five kids, so all of my cousins are older than me; some are a lot older than me. So the fact that I was going to hang out with Brandon was pretty cool because it was as if I was one of the older guys.

I have hung out with Brandon and my other cousin on numerous occasions, but this was just seemed cool. I went over to his house Thursday after school for the Thursday night game. We hung out for a bit, and then we walked down his street to get to the T-train stop.  We talked a lot about the game bop-it and how his was supposedly haunted; it would turn on at random. We rode downtown, got sandwiches, ate them by PNC Park, and then went to Heinz field for the game. It was a blowout against the Panthers, plus we got on the cameras for NFL network before the game started. So all in all it was a great time. 

After the game we went back to his house and watched TV and ordered a pizza online from dominoes. If you have never ordered a pizza from dominos online, I recommend doing so. It is a very strange and awesome experience. There is something called the pizza tracker, and if you leave the browser open on the computer, it updates you on the progress of your pizza, but there’s all  of these sound effects like explosions and guitars, and the guy is singing to you how far along your pizza is.  So when we were watching Robin Hood Men in Tights in the other room, and every five minutes or so you would hear the dominoes  website singing that your pizza has just been put into the oven as an explosion goes off, it was pretty awesome. After the pizza got there, his older sister Shannon and her fiancé Kyle came home, as well as my other cousin Brian and they all had some pizza. Later on we put on TV Land and watched a Rosanne marathon for a bit. Later, The Nanny came on, I hate the Nanny so we started looking for other things to watch, and we realized that home improvement would be on later, which was totally awesome because I had not seen that show in a long time, and me and Brandon began a deep discussion about the noise that Tim Allen makes at the beginning of the theme song, and countless times throughout the series. We changed the channel for the about fifteen minutes to watch a ghost show, it wasn’t ghost hunters. It was more like some kind of paranormal accounts television show, you know like people discussing their encounters with the dead. So as the night carried on, we continued with joking conversations and just hanging out with each other.  Around 4 in the morning, Home Improvement came on and we heard the noise that Tim Allen makes, which finally restored order to the universe.

From this night I have formed a much more personal relationship with my cousin, and Dominoes Pizza.