6th Grade Memory #1

I was having a sleepover at my friend Greg's house, above the commuter rail tracks, on the steepish hill, 15 minutes north of Boston.
Greg was the first person I knew to have a VCR. Downstairs in the rec room with the pinball machine, pool table and back room full of 100's of National Geographics.
We would pull out the linoleum and breakdance. We would have breakdancing contests that our friend Mike would judge. I forget exactly what we broke to. I think it was the soundtrack to "Breakin' 2: Electric Bugaloo" The one where the guy danced with the broom in front of the store.
Anyway, I took it pretty hard if I would lose. I was pretty into breaking and all the accoutrements: the parachute pants, black rubber Madonna bracelets, the studded belts and bracelets, and the quilted sweatshirts with paint splotches on them. It was 1985, I think.
Anyway, that night we had a large cheese pizza and some caffeine in front of us and two rented videos. At that time, renting a video was a wonderous experience.
We rented "The Natural" and "Splash".
I had brought my sleep wear and toothbrush in a gym bag along with a water damaged, frayed copy of some70's looking Gentleman's magazine I had found while walking on the tracks below after school earlier in the week. We didn't look at it for long becasue we were afraid his parents would catch us.
I remember wanting to fire up the huge silver VCR after he went to sleep because I wanted to watch Darryl Hannah walk out of the water again. I also wanted to look into crafting my own bat and burning my name onto it.
I had received a Texas Instruments computer that year for Christmas that plugged into the tv and took cartridges. I played a test based game called Adventure on it. And I brought it to break dance judge Mike's (to me) palatial house and wrote a program in Basic on it that would judge the girls in our class.

30 If $A = "Heather", goto 60
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60 Print "Heather - a bit bookish, but tall and blonde, good potential"