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One time Domenic was visiting us in Paris and because we were so caught up in Lincroft reunion reminiscing we got on the wrong train, which Taylor and I proceeded to get off of without apparently sufficiently warning Domenic. Which meant we had to get back on the next train after telling Domenic to get off at the next stop, but by that point it didn't make sense to get back off any more so we grabbed him and made him get back on the same train all over again. We are terrible hosts.
-M

18

One time it was about a million degrees in Manchester, Tennessee, when we crawled out of our tent at 6am to go get another hour of sleep outside, on the grass, by the side of the car. Next to the devil's own timepiece.
-M

17

One time we were driving around Toronto, GPS-less and beginning to freak out, before finally remembering what people "back in the day" (1994) used to do and pulled over to ask for directions in what had rapidly become a shittier and shittier part of town. Fortunately we were both correctly directed and generally in the right place already, so after parking in a weird residential area we followed our noses/looked towards the giant tour bus right in front of the venue.
-M

16

One time we went to go hang out with my friend Emily and noticed on her neighbor's door that he'd marked Middletown, NJ as his hometown. And who should it be but a certain lard-cooking juicer completely uninterested in the fact that we shared such a deep and meaningful common bond.
-M

15

One time we were in London and trying to get ourselves to the right theater to see the Hobbit. We made it, after an embarrassingly long journey involving asking no less than three strangers where to go. Not to mention a phonecall to the wrong place to cancel a ticket reservation I accidentally made for like two towns away. We ended up having to kill a ton of time before the showing, hung out in a supermarket, had to purchase 3D glasses, and then met up with two girls from our hostel and an English-American ex-ex-pat in the theater.
-M

14

One time we talked to the stupidest human in existence in Montclair, while freaking out about making our train home, after a really productive college visit. One of the standouts from that trip for me was driving around in the twins' crazy friend's LeBaron while she sang along to something really obnoxious on repeat...Journey maybe, or a musical soundtrack. And me simultaneously hating and loving it, arm out the window, at night.
-M

13

One time we went to watch the twins and Ryan graduate, and we drove to South afterwards, and while Taylor went to go hang out with all the graduates in the band room I reclined the seat in the parking lot and took a nap...one of my many high school moments that might be interpreted as either socially oblivious, pointedly obnoxious, or maybe just sleepy.
-M

12

One time we drove to Philly and were denied by a Decemberists fan/castle gatekeeper at one of our meticulously-chosen alternative tourist destinations. We did get to go to jail though.
-M

11

One time we decided to go to London and after I had a major freakout about the tickets et cetera, I slept through my alarms for the early-morning flight. If Taylor didn't call me to wake me up I probably would have missed the flight, leaving Taylor stranded at CDG, and I was so out of it that morning that I don't think I realized it until much later. I remember Taylor asked me if the call woke me up and I answered either "no" or that I didn't know...Sleep deprivation I guess. Kids stay in school.
-M

10

One time when we decided we needed to profiter we successfully navigated the Paris bus system, not before belatedly realizing that the tram we really wanted wasn't actually in service. Then we went and sat on the grass next to the Geode, watching all the little french picnickers out in the sun.
-M

9

One time we went over to Paige and Claire's house after school and spent the afternoon painting pumpkins in their driveway. I think Erin Hussey was there as well, and I remember some incident calling one of the the twins by the wrong name. And then we left all of these little pumpkins to dry on newspaper in Paige and Claire's garage.
-M

8

One time we spent a weekend under an awning in Taylor's driveway selling a ridiculous amount of ugly lamps and fake plants to the good people of Lincroft, including our weird substitute teacher who bought a shell wreath and one man who haggled over 2-dollar knives. At some point we accidentally left Nicole's table out in the rain.
-M

7

One time we drove to Sandy Hook towards the end of August in the evening. After one of the last days of the 2012 Prentice Cup we'd changed into bathing suits and gone to kill time in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot. We kept trying to get Ryan on the phone to come meet us but that didn't end up working out. Turns out we didn't kill enough time, though, and when we got to the hook gatekeeper he asked us to fork over like 15 bucks or whatever it was. "Going to the beach?" "...we used to go to school here?" And despite my bathing suit straps and sleeveless shirt he let us in for free.
-M