When Trish was in grade 9, she was kind of unfaithful to her kind of boyfriend, and she wrote about it in her diary.

I have to admit that I kind of cheated on John. I asked a boy to dance, sat next to him, and walked with him.

The only people that know are Penny, Kathy, Jessica, Brooke, Natalie, and Carrie.

I'm going to ask them not to say anything.

That's Trish, reading from the diary she kept in grade nine.

And this?

Well, this is grownups read things they

wrote as kids. I'm Dan Meisner. Grownups read Things They Wrote as Kids is a live open mic event

where brave adults get up on stage and read their childhood and teenage writing. This time

recorded live at the club in Banff, Alberta.

We have Phantom Killer Kittens, a fight over an $800 phone bill, and an island with no babes.

This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and in a lot of cases, it was never intended to be

read aloud.

So think about the stuff you wrote when you were a kid.

And stick around.

When our next reader, Emmett, was 18, he took a job in California.

And the job meant moving away from home, his family, his girlfriend, to go work for a guy named Tom, building film sets.

But things between Emmett and Tom didn't exactly work out.

So Emmett left his job.

And on top of that...

I ran up a $800 phone bill, which I left and never paid.

So this is my entitled 18-year-old response to his demands for payment.

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