Handwritten page of a diary dated June 5, 1999
… she would probably have convulsions if she couldn’t watch ‘The View’ and now that it’s summer, she’s been trying to get me to watch it with her again like she tried last year. At least that blonde girl is gone and a cool Asian girl has taken her place but seriously, why do I want to watch a TV show where everyone is trying to talk at the same time? I get enough of that at the dinner table when Aunt Mary Jane brings over my cousins every single Sunday since the day I was born. Last Sunday Maggie kept asking me if I still liked the Spice Girls and I kept saying no about fifty times and then Aunt Mary Jane tried to pretend she’s cool by saying “Oh, you’re not gettin’ jiggy Wit the Spice Girls any more?”
If there was a contest for the most UNcool family in all of the state of Pennsylvania, then they would win.
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Can you even say ‘jiggy’ in PA? I think the Amish may frown upon ‘jiggy’…
You can say it in Philadelphia because Will Smith was born there. Oh no. Now in my head is this: “In West Philadelphia born and raised, on the playground is where I spent most of my days … I got in one little fight and my mom got scared she said ‘You’re moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air.’”
I never realized will smith was Amish! They give him a dispensation on the hat and beard?