Ben & Cameron college days
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9th December 2014
Ben & Cameron college days
It was 2005 my first year of college' actually my only year of college, was definitely a great year for me.. when i started my two best mates at the time were Ben Richardson & Cameron Perry, both were pretty much A grade students, while myself a struggling student always getting in trouble. I just want to tell a few stories about those two guys.
Cameron & ben both had their license and would always be picking me up, i was madly in love with Nirvana and i had cameron hooked on it too, i had taught him roughly how to play bass and while another mate of mine played guitar we formed this nirvana cover band. we badly wanted to jam nirvana so i organised to borrow some music gear from school. Mr parkinson was really easy going and usually wasn't aware of anything.. so i said to cameron "could you pick the gear up in your car" he said yes of course. Once we got to school we loaded his car up with 3 amps and headed to dads for a jam in his lounge-room in tolosa street. I remember the jam was awesome and very loud!
one week went by, two weeks, next thing 2 months had past. I still hadn't taken the amps back, and was making good use of them. it was never my intention to steal them but i just couldn't get them back to school. I had grown to love these amps and for some reason i felt they were mine, One day at lunch time Mr Parkinson had walked up to me and said "hey Adam did you bring those amps back" i instantly said " yeah i left them in the music foyer" he said casually "ok no worries". I walked away thinking oh my god i have just scored these amps worth over 3 grand.
When i told cameron he just couldn't stop laughing at how stupid mr parkinson was for not checking, i guess the school could just write it off and get new ones pretty easily. Cameron and I decided to take them to cash converters and see what we could get for them. I think we visioned 3 grand cash in our hands.. when they offered $300 to us i decided to just keep them. I really didn't want them as i knew they were stolen and i genuinely felt bad. I ended up swapping the 3 amps for my first car.
I was definitely a bit of a rebel in school didn't have much care for anything except my friends.
Ben Richardson who also had his license used to pick me up regularly for long drives... he was probably my most funniest friend. The biggest thing that sticks out when i think of ben is he never had any luck with girls, he was constantly saying to me "Adam i dont know how you do it".
I just tried to tell him talk to them, he would always say i cant talk to girls man. He is 6 foot and was about 97kg we constantly ate pizza and he felt like a slob most of the time. Every time i came over he would say man we have to eat something healthy. I would always take my new girlfriends to his house to meet him and he would always be doing one of two things.. watching austar, or playing poker. he was always home and would never go anywhere. His mum was so nice ( she was my highschool teacher too) she would often set a bed up for me and provide my tea almost a few nights a week.
Ben has recently changed his life big time... he is now basically a professional poker player, hasn't worked a day job in his life except a few years at maccas. And is now travelling the world, constantly travelling to the mainland for poker tournaments and for leisure. Very proud of him, we are very similar like that. Both couldn't work an 8 hour day job if we tried. I rarely see ben now which is a shame i miss those days of having nothing to worry about except relationships. Another story about ben which is something he will never forget... Ben is a twin with James, they had their 18th birthday party at kings buffet, across from pizza hut. the night was going well until... when we was leaving a car load of people at pizza hut was fighting with Chris dienno who was with us. We were in the car ready to go just waiting on him, he was trying to get the tyre iron out of the back of the car to smash someone with it. I just wanted to get out of there, we had no idea what was going on... so we just left Chris there to deal with his own problems.. we got back to bens and sat in his room for a while i eventually left to go home. When i woke up he rang me and was so upset, i asked him what was wrong, he said you wont believe what happened after you left. All those car loads came back to my house looking for Chris and smashed it up along with bashing everyone... WHAT!? i said.
apparently Chris headed back to bens and hid in his fathers closet because 2 car loads of guys where after him.. they came in the house and bashed everyone, Ben was able to stay clear of it, and so did Chris. I went to bens place and the house was a mess, blood all over the carpet, shit everywhere, all because of Chris, who wasn't even a friend of bens, im not sure how he ended up there. The funniest part of the story is..., when Ben was telling me the details he said "i told Chris to go upstairs and hide" when ben went upstairs to tell Chris they had left, his dad woke up and said "ben whats all the noise? can you quite down please im trying to sleep". i laughed my head off. i said, did your dad not know what was going on.
well i dont think ben will ever forget his 18th.
Ben and Cameron where my two best mates and I haven't seen cameron in years i think he is busy being a chef. Maybe one day we can all go on a cruise and tell stories about our college days.
9th December 2014
Ben & Cameron college days
It was 2005 my first year of college' actually my only year of college, was definitely a great year for me.. when i started my two best mates at the time were Ben Richardson & Cameron Perry, both were pretty much A grade students, while myself a struggling student always getting in trouble. I just want to tell a few stories about those two guys.
Cameron & ben both had their license and would always be picking me up, i was madly in love with Nirvana and i had cameron hooked on it too, i had taught him roughly how to play bass and while another mate of mine played guitar we formed this nirvana cover band. we badly wanted to jam nirvana so i organised to borrow some music gear from school. Mr parkinson was really easy going and usually wasn't aware of anything.. so i said to cameron "could you pick the gear up in your car" he said yes of course. Once we got to school we loaded his car up with 3 amps and headed to dads for a jam in his lounge-room in tolosa street. I remember the jam was awesome and very loud!
one week went by, two weeks, next thing 2 months had past. I still hadn't taken the amps back, and was making good use of them. it was never my intention to steal them but i just couldn't get them back to school. I had grown to love these amps and for some reason i felt they were mine, One day at lunch time Mr Parkinson had walked up to me and said "hey Adam did you bring those amps back" i instantly said " yeah i left them in the music foyer" he said casually "ok no worries". I walked away thinking oh my god i have just scored these amps worth over 3 grand.
When i told cameron he just couldn't stop laughing at how stupid mr parkinson was for not checking, i guess the school could just write it off and get new ones pretty easily. Cameron and I decided to take them to cash converters and see what we could get for them. I think we visioned 3 grand cash in our hands.. when they offered $300 to us i decided to just keep them. I really didn't want them as i knew they were stolen and i genuinely felt bad. I ended up swapping the 3 amps for my first car.
I was definitely a bit of a rebel in school didn't have much care for anything except my friends.
Ben Richardson who also had his license used to pick me up regularly for long drives... he was probably my most funniest friend. The biggest thing that sticks out when i think of ben is he never had any luck with girls, he was constantly saying to me "Adam i dont know how you do it".
I just tried to tell him talk to them, he would always say i cant talk to girls man. He is 6 foot and was about 97kg we constantly ate pizza and he felt like a slob most of the time. Every time i came over he would say man we have to eat something healthy. I would always take my new girlfriends to his house to meet him and he would always be doing one of two things.. watching austar, or playing poker. he was always home and would never go anywhere. His mum was so nice ( she was my highschool teacher too) she would often set a bed up for me and provide my tea almost a few nights a week.
Ben has recently changed his life big time... he is now basically a professional poker player, hasn't worked a day job in his life except a few years at maccas. And is now travelling the world, constantly travelling to the mainland for poker tournaments and for leisure. Very proud of him, we are very similar like that. Both couldn't work an 8 hour day job if we tried. I rarely see ben now which is a shame i miss those days of having nothing to worry about except relationships. Another story about ben which is something he will never forget... Ben is a twin with James, they had their 18th birthday party at kings buffet, across from pizza hut. the night was going well until... when we was leaving a car load of people at pizza hut was fighting with Chris dienno who was with us. We were in the car ready to go just waiting on him, he was trying to get the tyre iron out of the back of the car to smash someone with it. I just wanted to get out of there, we had no idea what was going on... so we just left Chris there to deal with his own problems.. we got back to bens and sat in his room for a while i eventually left to go home. When i woke up he rang me and was so upset, i asked him what was wrong, he said you wont believe what happened after you left. All those car loads came back to my house looking for Chris and smashed it up along with bashing everyone... WHAT!? i said.
apparently Chris headed back to bens and hid in his fathers closet because 2 car loads of guys where after him.. they came in the house and bashed everyone, Ben was able to stay clear of it, and so did Chris. I went to bens place and the house was a mess, blood all over the carpet, shit everywhere, all because of Chris, who wasn't even a friend of bens, im not sure how he ended up there. The funniest part of the story is..., when Ben was telling me the details he said "i told Chris to go upstairs and hide" when ben went upstairs to tell Chris they had left, his dad woke up and said "ben whats all the noise? can you quite down please im trying to sleep". i laughed my head off. i said, did your dad not know what was going on.
well i dont think ben will ever forget his 18th.
Ben and Cameron where my two best mates and I haven't seen cameron in years i think he is busy being a chef. Maybe one day we can all go on a cruise and tell stories about our college days.
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