1. My story as a activist part ONE!
We were all so excited for the next protest. It was only going to be a couple of us, going out on top of the highway overpass with some signs. I had just smoked a ton of weed with the rest of the gang; it was me, Jilly, Sun, Bingo, Tiny, Shortcake, Mort, and Pine. We were walking down the road towards the overpass. Mort and Shortcake both trans and in a relationship with Tiny, but Mort and Shortcake were not in a relationship with each other. There were no hard feelings though because everyone was mature.
I made my sign out of markers and crayons and it said "NUCLEAR IS GENOCIDE". That was me, I had to be the serious one because everyone else, like Pine and Mort, and Jilly and Sun and Bingo, and the rest, were making silly signs and I had to make sure that the cars driving by knew what we were out there for. Shortcake had a sign that said "HARRY POTTER WOULDN'T BOMB A HAIRY COUNTRY", because the middle east is hairier. Then Tiny had a sign that said "IF YOU THE BOMB, THEN Y U BOMB?" and it had a hand drawn troll face (like from the internet). The troll face is a funny picture called a meme that people will put onto the internet to make boomers mad. The boomers got so mad when they drove by, they get so mad that they can't even look at us when they are in standstill traffic when coming back from their corporate jobs.
Once, a boomer threw a cigarette butt out the window towards us, and since he was in standstill traffic, it could have been a hazard. We called the cops on him and they said if we get his license plate then they'll send him a ticket. Serves him right, because his corporate job pays so much money that it's fine that the money goes to the cops.
That's the other thing that me and the crew protest. The cops. But I'll get to that later.
So we had just smoked a ton of weed - Jilly did ten bong hits. Mort and shortcake did a joint and a beer each, and I mean like a 8% beer, IPA. Pine did 3 dabs and I did 2 bowls of weed. We were then pretty clear headed, and that's when we made the protest signs. Weed was actually fine to do then because the state made it legal, because it's less dangerous than a beer. So, when we left the house with our signs, we got into a couple cars - like 2 people each car - and drove down the road to park in the Target and walk out to the bridge.
This is where the cops come in for the first time. Because they saw us leaving the parking lot, and we parked in the back, there were cops that were wondering if we were going to shop at Target. Then we laughed and ran away, because Pine said "What are you going to beat me up?" which was pretty powerful considering she was Black and could have died from saying that. Pine had a gas mask around her forehead just in case she got gassed from saying that.
And that was just the start. When we were walking down to the bridge, we had a secret way of getting there. It went through a big tent city that we got protected from police by having a war with them where we hit them with frozen water balloons and didn't get in trouble. Now the police just let that camp be there, because it should be, it had a natural right exist. Jilly knew a couple of the guys in that camp and she smoked a little crack when we were walking through there. One of the homeless guys started harassing Tiny because they were holding hands with the other two. Tiny called them a bigotted pig and they started getting really pissed, and Tiny said "Don't you know that we protected you you fucking asshole?"
Tiny is super nice and her parents have a ton of money, but she doesn't get any help from them because she forsakes that kind of thing. She pays like 100 dollars a month to live in a really nice house that her uncle owns but she pays it all from her job at amazon. I guess she doesn't actually make that much at amazon though.
So we got through the camp and I was still pissed from what that guy said to Tiny. I tried to go back and freak out on him, but Jilly and Sun held me back. I almost broke free from them but I felt a wave of peace come over me from the ganja that we smoked.
We got through the camp and got on top of the bridge. It was a pretty busy day on the highway, like 2 PM on a Wednesday. Suddenly a hundred cars were going by, then two hundred, and we waved the signs around and screamed. I looked over at Sun and he looked so serious. I have never seen him look that serious before and it scared the crap out of me. I then looked up at his sign, and it said "I FEEL NUCLEAR BOMBED" and it made me realize that actually we are all victims. But what was scary was that we were a victim and also the culprit, because we lived in the United States. I did my best to shut my mouth right when I realized -- but I wanted to tell all of my friends that deep thing I just realized, that we were guilty and also not guilty. I looked over at Tiny and she was just smiling at me, cause she was looking my way too. I wonder, did she want to be in a relationship with me too, three way, not just the other two?
And that was just the start of the day
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