An Epic Day

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Back in the early 90's, a friend and I decided one Saturday to go to Elitch Gardens, a Denver amusement park. Around noon, we took a lunch break and headed to the liquor store across the street, where we each purchased a bottle of MD 20/20, which we drank in the Elitches parking lot. Heavily buzzed, we headed to the log ride, where we got into a water fight with some kids in the log next to us. Wet, we exited the ride, where a couple of hot girls asked, with judgmental looks on their faces, if we'd been in a water fight. We got back in line, and this time we had a real doozy of a water fight, which drenched us. My friend had heard that if you lean forward right at the splash zone, you'd get wetter. As we approached the bottom of the slide, I felt like a rock had hit me in the back of the head. Only it wasn't a rock, it was my friend's face, resulting in an immediate black eye for him. We exited the ride, drenched, and my friend sporting a shiner. The same two girls were still there, this time with looks of disgust aimed our way. I mean, what would anybody think when they saw that? To prove that some days are more epic than others, we started the morning with a 20-mile bike ride. After Elitches, we went to see My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult in concert, where we purchased Kooler than Jesus t-shirts and the Confessions of a Knife CD. After the show, we headed downtown to a club called Fishdance. We asked the DJ if he had anything by The Mission, and were surprised when he played it, and even more surprised that we actually got a couple of girls to dance with us, t-shirts and black eye be damned. As I said, it was an epic day.