Wouldn’t It Be Good

Every time I hear this song, I’m taken right back to the time that Tisha, Tracey, Karen, Cheryl and me were at Tisha’s dad’s cabin. Electricity and water, but no phone and the bathroom plumbing wasn’t hooked up yet. We’d all been loaded drunk the night before, and I was sorely hung over when Tracey came to wake me up because Tish was stuck in the outhouse…freaking out over a spider, and nobody else could get the door open. I distinctly recall lighting a cigarette, sticking it in my mouth and stumbling blearily outside to find out what the fuck was going on, as Wouldn’t It Be Good played on somebody’s ghetto blaster (Cheryl’s?) in the background. I got out there and Tish was getting hysterical about the spider (though there are no venomous spiders in NS). I tried to open the door, but it was stuck and I couldn’t push it. My head was pounding, the sun was blinding me, it was hot and I felt like a camel had shit in my mouth, so I told Tish, “Get back as far as you can”, and kicked the door in. If I’d felt better, I probably couldn’t have done it, but I was so pissed off at getting awakened with a horrible hangover that I think I’d doubled my strength. I still don’t know how Tish managed to get stuck in there; I never asked, just went back in the cabin and back to sleep. 😆