A Reader's Nice Comments on OOTS

To the esteemed moderator: This is for you. If you choose to publish it, you have my encouragement. If you wish to keep it to yourself, by all means do so.

I want to say a personal "Thank You" for the blog. This lockdown has given me plenty of free time. A lot of that time has gone toward relaxing with the OOTS archives. I'm grateful for the escapades, grateful for the comments, grateful for the characters who appear in the stories.

 
Beyond that, I'm thankful to you personally Mr. Moderator because your blog has brought together a crowd of people who wouldn't otherwise have interacted. I've discovered stories that closely mirror my own experiences. I've read comments that entertained or educated me. I've grinned and looked the other way when you've dressed up your fiction in the Sunday suit of fact and given us a look at your dreams.

I rode along with the guy who pitched papers in his underwear. I felt "at home" in that classy old locker room with half the shower heads blocked off. I laid in a bunk bed and watched a roomful of campers doing their thing. I watched you deal with soap, deodorant and shampoo. I attended your sleepovers. I secretly watched you rubbing your stiffie on the chalk tray beneath the blackboard.

More than anything else, I've enjoyed remembering things that were so important to generations of kids dealing with hormones, erections and friendships.

So, all you writers and commentators, keep it up! Keep writing. Keep commenting. Keep reminding me of besties, of seventh-grade showers, of self-discovery, of summer camps, of funny little escapades that no other group would appreciate like we do.

Thank you.
Uber Anon