4/26/04 : THE FLORIDA TRIP

It has been a while since I have written an article, my appologies to all you die hard Chattanooga Skate Scene fans (the few, the proud, or the few with no pride in loving a lame local web site, or maybe there just aren't any fans... which is most likely the case). Alot has happened since last time I emailed Scott something to copy/past onto the collection of writtings. Spring break flew by, and some mad jive went down. I hung out with Scott, Ryan, and Jim virtually all of the 7 days...BWAH! On Wednesday, approximatally 7 oclock, we all (Scott, Ghetto Face, Ryan,my mom, and I) woke up and packed our things in the small vehicle...we were off to Sea Grove.The drive wasn't too shabby, I think I have heard absolutally every single "MODEST MOUSE" song ever composed.

We arrived at our rental apartment place at around 4 oclock. We walked around on the beach and ate realy good fresh shrimp. The next day we all went on the beach ALL DAY with hardly any sun block...a decision we would regret. That evening we had a bright idea to take a 14 mile walk in the sand and jump around in sand dunes, another decision we would regret. We arrive back at the apartment all red, inpain, and exhausted, to the point where I got sick for the night. The next morning I woke up and could barely move. That day we went on a boat to an island and we could hardly get out in the sun, we were so burt.

The next day I wasn't in AS MUCH pain, but itched....ALOT, to the point where it could be considered pain. That day we went and skated a skatepark in Destin and amazingly it cured the pain. When we showed up at the park, people kind of looked at us funny. After about 10 minutes two kids (on seperate occasions I might ad)asked us if everyone from our town was a "Piss Drunk". I asked, to one of the kids, what gave him the assumption and he said we had tight pants and Emericas and eSs...go figure. Well we blew that park out with a Kickflip over the bank to cone (me), Nollie the bank to cone (Scott) and hardflip the cone (Ryan). I ollied the pyramid to flat and Ryan f/s flipped it. We all kicked the huge bank and awsome mini ramp. After our park session we went the the South famouse PLUS SKATESHOP. They had every pair of shoe you could want, every board, every shirt, every hat, etc. and for hella good prices.

Well that night, (this is where the tail gets juicy) we got back to the rental apertment and someone was parked in our spot. We were all confused about this, so we got out of the car and went to the door. (I forgot to add that we were going to leave the next day, Sunday.) There was a note on the front door that went a little someting like this "YOU HAVE DISSOBEYED THE CONTRACT. DO NOT ENTER THE ROOM. YOU WILL BE ARRESTED. THE POLICE ARE NOTIFIED. DO NOT TRY TO ENTER OR WAIST YOUR TIME." We were all like "What the hell?" and my mom was freaking out. So we drive to the Realty center and call the emergency phone number. A lady pics up and this is how my mom described the conversation" MY MOM: Hello, I was in room 3 and now there is some lady there telling us we returned our keys, but we didn't. I need to get my stuff and we cant get in LADY: Well the owner got there and the room was a mess! It took 2 cleaning crews just to clean it up! You were supposed to leave today! There were condoms full of cum and shorts full of crap everywhere! MY MOM: What!? There were no such things, I cleaned the room before I left, and I thought I was supposed to leave tommorow! When can I get my things?! I need to be at work tommorow and I don't like you blaming false alligations on me! LADY: I'm sorry but you can't get your things untill regular buisness hours on monday. MY MOM: I have to be at work tommorow and my kids have to be to school on monday! LADY: I'm sorry but I don't like doing buisness with people like you! CLICK."

My mom got back in the car and we started freaking out. My mom made some phone calls to friends and we eventually decided to go to a near-by friend's house. He wasn't at home but he was a good friend so we walked in an waited for him to arrive. While doing so my mom talked with the Sheriff and some lawyers. When the owner of the house came back he was delighted to see us and let us stay the night. The next day my mom talked to the Sheriff and he said there was nothing he could do, because it was a civil matter. So we waited another day and stayed the night again. Monday morning we went to the storage place where our stuff was and we got everything together, but my brother didn't get his ring back. The cleaning ladies were nice, they weren't with the realty center. Although they said there realy were used condoms, so we are guessing the realty center placed them there. We told them the story and they said they felt sorry for us and that they didn't like that lady at the front desk either. They also said they were open all day sunday and we could have come and gotten our stuff. This made us madder than we were already, and we were MAD. Well after that we got our stuff and drove home. Listen to this, they also charged us a $750 cleaning fine! My mom is thinking about sueing. Well that is it for today's article, wow that took a long time. ------DEVON KRONENBERG