throwback: the missing bed.
This is another gem from my freshman year at Oral Roberts University. Things to know:1. ORU - Oral Roberts University. 2. Hannah and Clarissa - my neighbors. 3. WD-40 - the almighty spray oil of de-squeakerness. 4. Jess - my neighbor two doors down. The one I got into trouble with often. 5. Alcove - a common area on the opposite side of the elevators on our circular dorm floor. Enjoy!
October 28, 2007. The Adventures of College Life XI4) The Missing BedHere at ORU, there are a lot of squeaks. By squeaks, I mean old rusty joints that haven't been oiled in probably a decade or so. In response to this squeaky trend, I asked my papa bear (dad) to get me a bottle of all-powerful WD-40. Since returning from KC with this powerful substance, I have been going around reversing the trend of squeakiness. A majority of this reversing has happened in Hannah and Clarissa's room. Their door was so squeaky that I knew whenever they were entering or leaving their room because I could hear the squeak through the wall. One of the first tasks on my agenda once I returned to ORU was to un-squeak their door. After completing that task, Clarissa asked me to fix one of her dresser drawers that had a nasty squeak at the end of its range of motion. I did some searching on it, greased the bearings, tightened the screws, and the drawer was like new. So, Hannah asked to borrow my WD-40 to fix her bed on Tuesday night. She didn't get around to fixing her squeaky bed frame that night, because she fell asleep...which is not a surprise, given that we found her asleep in one of the stairwells once...Anyway, so Wednesday comes around. After classes, I hung around in Hannah's room until she left for a practicum about half an hour later. Hannah looked at me when she left and told me: "Joy Bork, you will NOT de-squeak my bed!" Why not? "Because you've already done too much for me!" "Whatever." "GET OUT OF MY ROOM!" Of course, someone telling me not to do something makes me want to do it more. After Hannah left, Jess and I decided to be ornery again. We knew that Clarissa was coming back soon, so we hid in her room. I was in the closet, and Jess was at the end of Clarissa's bed. Clarissa came in just as Jess was going through the screen door to get marshmallow guns out of my room. Clarissa was freaked out just by seeing Jess out of the corner of her eye. Being the smart person that she is, Clarissa deducted that I was hiding in the room somewhere too. After a short and not thorough search, Clarissa got distracted and gave up looking for me. Jess, being the great friend that she is, put Clarissa back on track by asking for PopTarts, which were in Clarissa's closet. Clarissa came over to the closet, opened it, got the pop tarts out, then closed the door again...not even noticing that I was crouching in the bottom of it. Eventually, Jess started laughing. This made Clarissa realize that I was in the closet...Anyway, back to the missing bed. So, I asked Jess to help me take Hannah's mattress off of the bedframe. I then started WD-40'ing the joints on the bed (If you didn't know, our beds here on Susie 7 are awesome. They push in to be a "couch" and pull out to reveal the whole mattress for sleeping...). Jess got the idea that it would be awesome if we just left the mattress in the middle of the floor since Hannah is so anal sometimes about item placement. We all agreed that it would be hilarious to see Hannah's reaction...then the idea escalated into moving Hannah's bed into the alcove...Yes. The alcove. We picked up the bed and moved it to the alcove, then remade it so that it looked just like it did when it was on the bedframe, except it was on the floor in the alcove. I proceeded to pull out my video camera to document the event. Dani got a hold of the camera and started filming a documentary about the previous events. Clarissa, Jess, and I explained why the bed was in the alcove. In order to find out when Hannah will be back, I used the excuse of wanting to study for a midterm for Charismatic Life class the next day to see when Hannah will return. We got an estimate of her return at about 7:30.I then started teaching Dani and Jess how to iron certain articles of clothing. I had asked several of the girls on the path to Hannah's room to get her talking so that we could know when to get the camera out to film her reaction. I got the camera out just in time and got a perfect reaction...until the battery died...but anyway, I edited it all into a video. (see below) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kogNYCXHDc