I Need to Get Out in Front of this PR Nightmare…

I do not want to post this. But in the spirit of good PR, I have to get out in front of it. :-)

This was a home video taken on July 29, 1988 – twenty years ago almost to the day.

The story was… it was in Africa, where I lived for a bit from age 8-12. My parents were missionaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo (was known as Zaire then). There was little to do as 1) a kid and 2) in Africa.

One of the things that we would do is use a makeshift slip and slide created from plastic sheets. Put a hose on the top and a full water mattress at the bottom and you had hours of fun for kids.

This was, if I recall, a picnic where a number of missionary families were getting together. Note the one guy who was always bound to be “somewhat inappropriate” with his dead and stinking monkey on a stick. Yes, it’s a real monkey. It was already dead. :-)

Ugh. Wow. Just wow. I’m going to kill someone now. :)

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Comments

  1. jarmetta says:

    Wow- this was so long ago- where did you dig it up????

  2. This would be the product of Mr. James Dodzweit who apparently is going
    through some kind of early mid-life crisis and feels the need to dig into
    old archives. :-)

  3. Timothy Brazell says:

    I can’t believe that! We were all so young… personally i think Matt was hilarious in that video. :) And Aaron… you haven’t changed a bit ;)

  4. Yeah, Matt’s gonna flip… with his little buzzed head. :-)

  5. Corrie says:

    Are you kidding????? The fact that #1 we were in AFRICA and #2 we were KIDS…….That was enough fun for a lifetime. You can’t ever erase those memories…….Awesome video!!!!!

  6. I’m trying to cope with the SHORTS! Jeezz… :)

  7. PAul Butler says:

    I finally just saw this while cleaning out my mailbox. What a wave of nostalgia!. Except that we did wear really short shorts!

  8. I *love* Brick Cliff's shorts :-p

  9. Matthew says:

    Unbelievable! It's the most unsightly display of grown men in short shorts but nonetheless it brings back some great memories…

  10. heheh. What's up, Matt?

  11. Matthew says:

    Hi Aaron. What's good? gettin by here in Charlotte…

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