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Sticker Recall: A Collective

September 9, 2008 | Skip To The Comments (0)

Sticker Recall: A Collective
"Fuct"
By Rob Brink
Skatebook #3

It was like ‘92 or ‘93. The heyday of huge clothes in skateboarding. I didn’t have money for some Blind jeans or Fuct shorts like everyone was wearing, so I rocked the carpenter-style ones, called “Big Yanks,” from K-Mart for $11. Knowing this, my best friend at the time, Mike, got me a pair of dark green Fuct shorts for my birthday. I was over six-feet tall and and really skinny and pale back then. These things went down to almost my ankles. Mid-shins no doubt. Lookin’ like a clown swimming in them, no doubt.

I rocked those shorts for like six months straight. They were my favorite. Back then I didn’t drive or have a job yet, so my mom still made me go to church with her on Sundays.

So we’re sitting in church and I feel her suddenly grab the bottom of my shorts where the Fuct logo is, the very same logo as this sticker. I’d had the shorts for so long it hadn’t even occurred to me that an obscenity was written on them. I got used to it and forgot. And she’s turning all red and I can see she’s fuckin’ pissed. But you can’t talk in church, ya know? So she held it in for a bit.

Needless to say, after mass I caught a gnarly sit down and confiscation of my favorite shorts for having the word “Fuct” on me in the holiest of places. Not too long after, I got a job and my license. I could afford cool clothes from the skateshop rather than K-Mart and I never had to go back to church again.