This Is Going To Suck - Matthew Dicks Comments

It's December 23rd 1988. I'm 17 years old, I'm coming out of the record store. My friend Pat sees me, he asks me what's in the shopping bag I'm holding. I tell him it's a concert t shirt. Christmas present for Benjy are friends and my best friend pet looks at me a little funny and Pat's only 14 at the time but he's already cooler than I will ever be in my entire life so when he looks at me like that I always pay attention that tells me that guys don't buy Christmas presents for other guys and especially surprise Christmas presents he tells me that he's had girlfriends for like six months and never bought them a thing so for me to buy denji a Christmas present is a little odd.
I'm suddenly feeling very self-conscious about the betta fish in the backseat of my car that I bought at the pet store for Pat like an hour ago and the comic books for food and the sweatshirt for Tom and all the presents.
And I know that Pat is right that my parents might my evil stepfather and their failing marriage and no money has made every Christmas for years just a misery but for the first time in my life I have money in my pocket I'm a manager at McDonald's making $5.75 an hour working full-time while I'm in highschool and I am the richest person I know and so I'm going to use this money to buy myself a great Christmas.
I'm heading home now I need to get my uniform cuz I have a shift at McDonald's later I got to get these presents into the house. It's starting to snow out it's kind of lovely I'm driving my mother is 1976 Datson B210. It's a car about the size of a box of Pop-Tarts.
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