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[admemoriam]

[The video comes on, just a bit crooked, to show a scrawny teenager sitting in tall grass. He gives the camera a business-like nod, and then holds up a piece of paper, covered in blocky, red writing, to the lens.]

This is my bucket list.

[Self-explanatory, from the title.]

Who can help me with any of it? [He tilts it back to scan the list again.] Like, I'm pretty sure fireworks will be pretty easy, but I don't really know where to find a red panda. [A little nose wrinkle.] ... Or a volcano.

[That's it. That's the broadcast. He gives the camera a boyish smile and a thumbs up.]

Comments

[admemoriam]

Do you have, like, some kind of thing about dental hygiene? I mean, it's just a mouth.

[valuemeal]

It's not--

[ Like that, he wants to say, but the actual issue he does have with it almost feels even more embarrassing in comparison.. so he quickly just shuts up, mouth closing rapidly like some sort of goldfish. ]

I'm just saying you need to think about that stuff before you do it.

[admemoriam]

[A shrug.]

I'm not a big thinker. Maybe if I had more time.

[valuemeal]

Hey, that's exactly how you end up regretting stuff in the end! By not thinking before you do it!

Especially if that "doing" involves kissing people in a weird place like this.

[admemoriam]

Being a teenager is all about regretting stuff, man.

[valuemeal]

Why would you want to regret stuff?! Or is that also considered something weird in other places by now?

[ He's seen so many weird things in this place, he'd believe it all at this point.. ]

[admemoriam]

If you only do things you're sure you won't regret, then you miss out on a lot of stuff.

[valuemeal]

Someone else here told me the same thing.

[ Which means he has to at least somewhat consider it, no matter how ridiculous it sounds to him.. ]

Then you don't mind going around with that stuff you regret forever?