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Oh shit. Here goes.
I'm pushing 60.
>be me. 17 y/o autist-lite.
>back then, book stores in malls? Are also software sales places.
>This, is 1985.
>We were taken to mall, for "apple user group meeting"
>Meet in some back room for this.
>Whole point, is to we all copy games and other software, and trade.
>fuck everything else
>asshole running meet? They shut power off, for talking time. How to use for...next loops.
>Fuck this shit. I walk around, bored. Everyone is ignoring sperg asshole talking. This is every month.
>I find breaker box. Huh. One breaker? Off. Flip back on.
>BEEP! of 50 or 60 Apple II+ computers turning on and booting up, all at once. I hear chuckling. I am hero.
>Fellow autists, start ignoring asshole talking, and resume copying (illegally) software.
>achievement unlocked.
>Professor congratulates me, on being really cool. He's happy.
>Me and anon-friend, walk around mall.
>Book store, software in back. Is up on deck, in back. Was? Different time.
>Anon friend? Wants SDCv3.6. (this, is super disk copy, version 3.6... big deal, in 1985)
>I look at anon fiend. How bd you want this.
>More than anything.
>I give autistic smile. We? Are fren. I shoeb it down my underwear in front.
>Don't know about "beeper" technology.
>autists? Are not perfect.
>I walk down steps from software deck. BEEP BEEP BEEP.
>Shit. What do.
>There, is magazine racks, out to end of store. I am autist. Read many spy novels. I? Have secret plans. Must get plana out. I dive behind magazine racks.
>{MassConfusion.BMP]
>I crawl to frint of store, behing mag racks.
>I hit storefront? I bolt.
>is took time. Here comes security,.
>SHIT.jpg
>slow as fuck. I am autist. I run long distance track. Realize, they can;t catch me. Middle age fuck sticks. Uniforms are useless.
>I escape
>Because of.. Monroeville Apple User Group Meeting location? I know back alleys, BEHIND stores.
>I am autist. Friend, is fellow autist. We know these tunnels, like back of hand.
>I escape. I end up back at MAUG meeting.
>Anon. Why are you wearing...
>I had ditched my sweatshirt. Changed look.
>Security everywhere. Looking for kid in sweatshirt X.
>I come clean to professor took us there.
>Profesor laughs, in autist.
>[GoodJob.BMP]
>can i have copy, of SDCv3.6?
>damn straight
>All good. Amazed. Professor, is on board.
>Professor, out in hippie van.
>Anon. Was awesome, when Apple computers, all came on. We copied thru talking. Was awesome.
>[HolySHit.JPG]
>Professor, and autist friend? Pitch in, and buy HUGE bucket of... KFC
>Achievement unlocked
>I feel.. awesome.
True story. BTW, Monroeville mall? later became, mall zombie movie, filmed at.
>Autist friend? Later became actual criminal. I, did not.
>Good feels, man.

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