EPTNormally, I could come up with something original and witty, but you're going to have to suffer through this instead:
Random Stories from Riku's Past
Cat Girl
I grew up with cats. In fact, "cat" was one of my first three words along with "dad" and "no." One day, when I was about two years old, I made a pair of cat ears on a headband during a craft-time at my pre-school. Upon coming home with them, I put them on, stuck a sock in the back of my pants and made nothing but cat noises... for the next two months straight. My mom thought I needed to be taken to a doctor to have my mental health checked, but my dad just thought it was cute. Luckily, I just randomly outgrew that phase and my insanity is slightly less obvious.
Band Camp
One time, at band camp, I climbed up to the boy's cabin window. There was a cement ledge below the window about 8 feet off of the ground (I started where the ledge was closer to the ground, as it was on a hill, and shimmied my way over). I was leaning through the window and talking to one of my best friends when he noticed his blinds were stuck and he couldn't lower them. I figured it was the angle that was the issue, so I offered to pull the cord in my direction, out of the window. He handed the cord to me, and I gave it a sharp tug. I suddenly heard a loud CRACK and the whole thing broke off from the top of the window and fell directly on my head. This startled me so badly that I then fell backwards out of the window and landed on the ground a good 8 feet below. Unfortunately, I found the whole incident so hilarious, I began laughing immediately upon hitting the ground and couldn't get the air back in my lungs. I rolled around on the ground, trying to gasp for air, but laughing to hard to do so, while the tears welled up in my eyes from what was basically self-suffocation. In the end, I survived (SURPRISE!).
Game Stop Prowler
While I was in high school, I worked at two of the local game stops (one my junior year and one my senior year). One day, when I was working, a guy came in with some of his friends and stared at me over the rack of used xbox games for a good ten minutes. He then moved to the PC games and continued his dead fish stare. Occasionally, he'd try to catch my eye and make some sort of awkward gesture. My manager told me to go see if the kid needed help finding something. I went over and asked him if he needed assistance. He seemed startled initially, but then started awkwardly hitting on me. I was polite, but made every attempt to turn him down. He eventually asked me when I got off work and I lied and told him an hour after our store closed. My manager was working the store with me and laughed and teased me the rest of the day about how awkward the kid was. We hadn't had any other customer so bold yet, they normally just gave me weird looks when I attempted to talk to them about games and scurried off. When I started helping my manager close up the store, I noticed the kid hiding behind one of our displays (an hour before I told him I would be off!!!). He wasn't very stealthy, consider the display was a good foot shorter than him and he was squatting and peering over the top. My manager refused to chase the guy off for me and demanded that I go talk to him so he could watch the show. His friends were standing back a few yards, cheering him on and I felt like I was dealing with a bunch of middle-schoolers, though he was clearly older than me. He made to put an arm around my waist and started asking me if I wanted to go watch a movie with him. I managed to roll out of his arm before he got a hold of me, then promptly told him that I wasn't interested and that he needed to leave so we could close the store. He gave me a surprised look, then left with his friends, mentioning loudly to them, "She wasn't that cute, anyway." My old manager to this day still teases me about the whole ordeal when I drop by the store.
Also, i still got my bus, so yay for not-problem-causing procrastination!
