Sketchy Specs
Throughout high school, my friends and I would hear on almost a daily basis of a new ridiculous thing that happened to Emily, or "Sketchy Specs" as we appropriately nicknamed her. And of course, the stories continued into college. At one point, we decided to compile them into a list so that we could read them whenever we needed a laugh. And now, it can be shared for all to see. Smiles and laughter in her remembrance is precisely what she would have wanted.
THE OFFICIAL SKETCHY SPECS LIST
Compiled April 2003
1. It all began at a young age: when she was about six, dad told her to STAY in the car to wait for him. She then closes her finger in the car door and eventually passes out from the pain. She didn’t go get dad because he said to stay there…
2. Video tape of dance class when she was 7. She is wearing her leotard backwards so she has a MEGA wedgie with Mickey Mouse underwear hanging out AND a mullet hair cut. She has no clue what is going on and makes up her own dance moves while everyone else is synchronized.
3. On the first day of third grade, Rusty Lamb chokes on his retainer and it flies out of his mouth, along with blood and vomit and lands on Emily’s desk. And she got to clean it up.
4. Emily has been hit on by two different lesbians: one at Penn State when she was visiting her sister and one in the mall.
5. In high school art class, the teacher asks her quite seriously if she is dyslexic when he sees her drawing.
6. Em is at Bridgewater mall with me and Stoll. A man walks right up to her. He says, “Excuse me, I noticed this from across the food court, and had to walk over here and wait for you to come out of the bathroom because I just HAD to tell you- you have the most GORGEOUS toes I have EVER seen.” He was completely serious. And yeah her toes are nice, but seriously…
7. At gas station when she is driving her mom's car, she pulls up to tank and the guy tells her the tank is on the other side. So she pulls around, and, low and behold, the tank is STILL on the wrong side.
8. A few of us are visiting Decker in Ithaca and while walking up the stairs, Emily spots some gloves- “Hey, I have gloves like that!” Well, Em…those ARE your gloves. (She had not yet realized that they were missing…)
9. High school trip with American Legal class to People’s Court. Bus she is on gets in an accident on the way there and then while she is there she gets stuck in an elevator.
10. Emily’s J. Emmanuel customers:
-The deaf mute guy who made her buy pens from him
-Extremely creepy window washer dude that stares at her
-Guy that Em says “Have a nice day” to and he responds, “Don’t tell me what to do.”
-Guy who said “I like my chocolate dark like I like my women" and also "Put lots of the champagne truffles so she won’t know what I'm doing to her later tonight."
11. Also at J.Emmanuel- they made Em dress up as Big Bird and the Easter Bunny and wave outside of the store. She would get all sorts of sickos who gave her the finger, flashed, etc. Once a cop even turned on his sirens.
12. Group of us all at diner waiting for Specs. I had just dropped her off at her car in the MHS parking lot, reminding her that we were going to the CHESTER DINER. She takes forever to show up and we are getting worried. She finally shows up and tells us that she got a ride. She doesn’t have her keys and thinks she left them in my car. But no, they aren’t there. Well, then it takes Megan (hmm, acting a little sketchy herself) a long time before she realizes that she picked up Em’s keys in the parking lot on the way out of school. Guess she didn’t recognize the keys with the keychain that says “Emily Rocks.”
13. Nickelodeon sends Em a cat-dog stuffed animal thing along with a letter congratulating her on her essay, which won a contest. But she never entered any contest!
14. Studying at Liebs’ house, Em shows up to join us and can’t get her key out of the ignition. We think she is nuts, but then Mer and I both try to get it out and it really is stuck. So then Mer and Em drive to an auto place. They get there and the key comes right out before they even tell anyone why they are there.
15. Wal-Mart parking lot, Stoll is in car with Specs. All the sudden Em is like, “Pull-through!” and Elise yells, “Noooooooooo!!” It’s not a pull-through. The car goes flying into the air over the concrete median.
16. Home for break freshman year, girls are over at my house. We ask Em how the heck she keeps track of keys and her school ID at Tech because she is always misplacing things like keys when at home. She says, “I don’t even know where my keys are right now” and we all laugh. NEXT DAY: I wake up and go into kitchen. My mom says to me: “Sketchy Specs left her Hokie card here last night.”
17. VTech semi-formal- Specs had to squish in the back of a designated drivers's car with 3 other girls and a guy. She had to sit on this other girls lap… awkward since she didn’t know her. Em starts to make conversation. She is talking about how she is from Jersey and the girl says that she used to live on Long Island. So Em says, “No way, my friend Alicia is from there, have you been to Fire Island?” The girl responds, “Yeah... it's a predominantly gay island where my parents met....maybe that's why I have so many lesbian tendencies."
18. At Tech- A group of people were having a really serious conversation about Vietnam whilst she and Ashley are discussing the "case of the missing left sock" when you do laundry. The group gets quiet for a moment and Emily pipes up, "I think the laundry monster steals them at night!"
And a couple family stories:
19. Em’s grandma is in car with Dad and Emily and Black Sabbath comes on radio. Em is like “Dad, turn this off.” He says, “What? Grandma loves Ozzie!” and turns it up.
20. Her mom hits a deer, and a few days later, they notice dogs sniffing at their car. Then one day she is driving and notices something dragging under the car. She pulls into a gas station and asks an attendant to take a look. He does and nonchalantly says, “Well, you got a deer carcass stuck under there.”
I hope you all enjoy these stories as much as we always have. Her sketchy stories will truly be missed.
And many more things will be missed - her unending generousity and thoughtfulness, her loyalty, her constant ability to make you smile, her passion for life. Emily helped so many people in her lifetime and would have continued to do so for the rest of her life. She was beautiful, smart, and talented. She loved her family and friends and would have done anything for them. What an incredible person she turned out to be reflects on her family...you are the ones who taught her to be passionate and caring.
Emily came to visit me at Boston University this year and I am so grateful to have had that weekend with her. She took this gorgeous photo of my campus from the top of the Prudential Center. It, of course, was taken at sunset.
It still baffles me that something so random and unexplainable could happen to a person so incredibly caring and full of life. I believe that someone needed her more than we did. She is with the angels.
Emily was one of the best friends i will ever hope to have in my lifetime. I will forever think of her when I face challenges throughout life. I hope I am able to follow my dreams just as she always did.
-Theresa
THE OFFICIAL SKETCHY SPECS LIST
Compiled April 2003
1. It all began at a young age: when she was about six, dad told her to STAY in the car to wait for him. She then closes her finger in the car door and eventually passes out from the pain. She didn’t go get dad because he said to stay there…
2. Video tape of dance class when she was 7. She is wearing her leotard backwards so she has a MEGA wedgie with Mickey Mouse underwear hanging out AND a mullet hair cut. She has no clue what is going on and makes up her own dance moves while everyone else is synchronized.
3. On the first day of third grade, Rusty Lamb chokes on his retainer and it flies out of his mouth, along with blood and vomit and lands on Emily’s desk. And she got to clean it up.
4. Emily has been hit on by two different lesbians: one at Penn State when she was visiting her sister and one in the mall.
5. In high school art class, the teacher asks her quite seriously if she is dyslexic when he sees her drawing.
6. Em is at Bridgewater mall with me and Stoll. A man walks right up to her. He says, “Excuse me, I noticed this from across the food court, and had to walk over here and wait for you to come out of the bathroom because I just HAD to tell you- you have the most GORGEOUS toes I have EVER seen.” He was completely serious. And yeah her toes are nice, but seriously…
7. At gas station when she is driving her mom's car, she pulls up to tank and the guy tells her the tank is on the other side. So she pulls around, and, low and behold, the tank is STILL on the wrong side.
8. A few of us are visiting Decker in Ithaca and while walking up the stairs, Emily spots some gloves- “Hey, I have gloves like that!” Well, Em…those ARE your gloves. (She had not yet realized that they were missing…)
9. High school trip with American Legal class to People’s Court. Bus she is on gets in an accident on the way there and then while she is there she gets stuck in an elevator.
10. Emily’s J. Emmanuel customers:
-The deaf mute guy who made her buy pens from him
-Extremely creepy window washer dude that stares at her
-Guy that Em says “Have a nice day” to and he responds, “Don’t tell me what to do.”
-Guy who said “I like my chocolate dark like I like my women" and also "Put lots of the champagne truffles so she won’t know what I'm doing to her later tonight."
11. Also at J.Emmanuel- they made Em dress up as Big Bird and the Easter Bunny and wave outside of the store. She would get all sorts of sickos who gave her the finger, flashed, etc. Once a cop even turned on his sirens.
12. Group of us all at diner waiting for Specs. I had just dropped her off at her car in the MHS parking lot, reminding her that we were going to the CHESTER DINER. She takes forever to show up and we are getting worried. She finally shows up and tells us that she got a ride. She doesn’t have her keys and thinks she left them in my car. But no, they aren’t there. Well, then it takes Megan (hmm, acting a little sketchy herself) a long time before she realizes that she picked up Em’s keys in the parking lot on the way out of school. Guess she didn’t recognize the keys with the keychain that says “Emily Rocks.”
13. Nickelodeon sends Em a cat-dog stuffed animal thing along with a letter congratulating her on her essay, which won a contest. But she never entered any contest!
14. Studying at Liebs’ house, Em shows up to join us and can’t get her key out of the ignition. We think she is nuts, but then Mer and I both try to get it out and it really is stuck. So then Mer and Em drive to an auto place. They get there and the key comes right out before they even tell anyone why they are there.
15. Wal-Mart parking lot, Stoll is in car with Specs. All the sudden Em is like, “Pull-through!” and Elise yells, “Noooooooooo!!” It’s not a pull-through. The car goes flying into the air over the concrete median.
16. Home for break freshman year, girls are over at my house. We ask Em how the heck she keeps track of keys and her school ID at Tech because she is always misplacing things like keys when at home. She says, “I don’t even know where my keys are right now” and we all laugh. NEXT DAY: I wake up and go into kitchen. My mom says to me: “Sketchy Specs left her Hokie card here last night.”
17. VTech semi-formal- Specs had to squish in the back of a designated drivers's car with 3 other girls and a guy. She had to sit on this other girls lap… awkward since she didn’t know her. Em starts to make conversation. She is talking about how she is from Jersey and the girl says that she used to live on Long Island. So Em says, “No way, my friend Alicia is from there, have you been to Fire Island?” The girl responds, “Yeah... it's a predominantly gay island where my parents met....maybe that's why I have so many lesbian tendencies."
18. At Tech- A group of people were having a really serious conversation about Vietnam whilst she and Ashley are discussing the "case of the missing left sock" when you do laundry. The group gets quiet for a moment and Emily pipes up, "I think the laundry monster steals them at night!"
And a couple family stories:
19. Em’s grandma is in car with Dad and Emily and Black Sabbath comes on radio. Em is like “Dad, turn this off.” He says, “What? Grandma loves Ozzie!” and turns it up.
20. Her mom hits a deer, and a few days later, they notice dogs sniffing at their car. Then one day she is driving and notices something dragging under the car. She pulls into a gas station and asks an attendant to take a look. He does and nonchalantly says, “Well, you got a deer carcass stuck under there.”
I hope you all enjoy these stories as much as we always have. Her sketchy stories will truly be missed.
And many more things will be missed - her unending generousity and thoughtfulness, her loyalty, her constant ability to make you smile, her passion for life. Emily helped so many people in her lifetime and would have continued to do so for the rest of her life. She was beautiful, smart, and talented. She loved her family and friends and would have done anything for them. What an incredible person she turned out to be reflects on her family...you are the ones who taught her to be passionate and caring.
Emily came to visit me at Boston University this year and I am so grateful to have had that weekend with her. She took this gorgeous photo of my campus from the top of the Prudential Center. It, of course, was taken at sunset.
It still baffles me that something so random and unexplainable could happen to a person so incredibly caring and full of life. I believe that someone needed her more than we did. She is with the angels.
Emily was one of the best friends i will ever hope to have in my lifetime. I will forever think of her when I face challenges throughout life. I hope I am able to follow my dreams just as she always did.
-Theresa
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