Vivid Memories #5

Originally posted January 10, 2010

When I was in the first grade, at school during recess I used to play Friday the 13th with one of my schoolyard chums, where one of us would pretend to be Jason and chase the other one around with an air-knife. I was the one who came up with this game, mostly because it was shortly after my brother got Friday the 13th for NES as a gift for his birthday. As a 5-year-old, I wasn't satisfied with pretending to be "Jason," because there's tons of Jasons, how would we know which one I was supposed to be? So I would chase my buddy around the parking lot shouting "JASON KILL!!" I figured adding "kill" to the end made it clear enough who I was supposed to be.

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