Gang Green "you got it"

Summers were long when I was a teenager.  In the years before cell phones and Internet access you had a lot more time to kill.  Many of our days were spent wandering around passive aggressively searching for friends/stuff to do.  You'd make a phone call in the morning and if you didn't reach anyone you headed out to likely meeting spots and waited to see if anyone else arrived.  While I don't resent this age of technological immediacy I do sometimes miss the simpler times because often on those wandering days you discovered adventure.
In 1988 if I wanted to see my friends I headed to one of our suburban skate spots. Sometimes I'd carry a boom box and often that summer it would be playing #ganggreen .  I was 17 years old and my friends and I loved drinking as much as we loved skating.  Gang Green provided a great soundtrack for both of those endeavors.  At this point in their career they played a melodic and heavy brand of skate-punk.  With anthemic songs like "LDSB (let's drink some beer)" we ate this shit up.
One day I was waiting around the steps to the junior high where we used to no-comply and acid drop off the ledges. Some of my other friend's turned up soon after and we lazily skated in the heat.  A shitty car pulled up and out stepped a punk rock goddess with a silver fluffy mohawk and asked us what was up.  This legendary creature (who became known in reverence as "Punk Rock Jen") had seen us skating, heard the music and decided we were cool and stopped to talk to us.  She was a few years older than us and had a car.  She was worshipped by my whole crew.  On this, our first meeting, she asked who was playing on the radio, I told her and she said she liked it.  I yanked the cassette out of it's saddle and eagerly offered it to her. She flashed a smile that would have snapped my tony hawk deck in half.  She drove us around looking for our other friends listening to this album.  We found everyone and ended up drinking on "the dykes" (a concrete drainage embankment) and Punk Rock Jen pierced my ear with a filthy safety pin from her clothes.  Those were the days.