How I Spent My Student Loan is a Flash Fiction Serial my buddy Ben Freeman is writing. I am putting it on my blog and would love any feedback you may have.
Written by Ben Freeman
Welcome to How I Spent My Student Loan.
I entered a bank in the small town where I lived when I was in high school and still shacking up at my parent's house. I had my 1.98-grade point average printed out ready to go, I know it might sound like I was going nowhere, but I was the top of my class for the future entrepreneurs in Bank County Idaho. The small town in which I attended high school was not your average small town, shockingly enough; no one knows anyone, and before I knew it I had my chance to become an educated part of society.
How did I get a student loan with a 1.98-grade point average? The gentleman at the bank, Mr. Smith, helped me, unknowingly, figure out how I should use college to my best interest. If he had only known what had he said to me would affect my life in ways, I think he would have been a happier man. He died two weeks later.
Orientation Day at MTSU campus in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Okay, go ahead and say it, you've never heard of MTSU. Just keep your pants on because it is actually the largest undergraduate college in the state of Tennessee. Orientation Day is a good day to learn about the campus and learn what's where and all that shit. But to my great fortune of not caring what's where I met someone that would change my life and me theirs. His name was Lenny. No, it was not a female just yet that doesn't occur to the sorority house raffle the following semester.
Lenny and I changed each other's lives by having what the other did not in order to make it complete. We became best friends, buds, compadres and any other heterosexual friendship innuendo you can think of.
Lenny was a tech person that liked to party but had no friends, in short, he was a hacker that loved to party but had no life. He had the knowledge, and I was innovative enough to make his intelligence a goldmine.
I had my student loan in my pocket just like Lenny, but the more we talked neither one of us wanted to let them go.
"So how long have you been a computer hacker?" I interestingly inquired.
"Since I was 12 years old."
"What all can you do or what is your specialty?"
"Do you remember the Wallstreet computer hangup in 2010?"
"Was that you?" I said as looked at him in awe.
"No..."
"Wait... What..."
"That was nothing, but do you remember the animatronics revolution at the pizza joint in Jersey eight months ago?"
I pause, think for a second and look at Lenny with my face half cocked back and said, "Really!"
"That was me," said Lenny as he smiled.
"No way, " I busted out in laughter, "Dude I saw that on the cover of the national inquire. That was a riot reading about the parents having to fight the animatronic bears when they all rushed off the stage."
"Yeah, I'll have to show you the video I captured from one of the bear's eyes that were used as lenses."
"I have to have a copy of that," I said
"What about you," said Lenny.
"I was Mr. Potato head for the past three years at my high school homecoming," I said.
"Mr. Potato Head," said Lenny acquisitively.
"Yeah, I'm from Idaho," I said, "You have no idea how man chics want to have sex with a guy in a potato outfit."
Lenny shakes his head looking up trying his hardest or even figure out the reasons why.
"Just go with it," I said.
Lenny shakes his head and smiles.
"Here's an event that was a crowd pleaser like yours," I said. "My senior year after half time during homecoming the team of our big rival had multiple disastrous problems on the field including the coaches because of a colon cleaner my friend made in a chemistry lab that could be consumed by inhaling it when ran through the air ducts in the locker room."
"Oh man, I wish I had seen that," said Lenny as he laughed.
"Lenny, I think our Freshman your is going to be a great year."
It was from that point on, Lenny, and I decided to keep our student loan checks, enroll through his expertise using the computer mainframe and start our college career educating ourselves and be the entrepreneurs we were meant to be with a temporary loan from our Uncle Sam.
Big Green Publishing
How I Spent My Student Loan
episode two
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