Pay the Toll to the Trope

by Chris McGinty of AccordingToWhim.com

Nathan did a trope based post, and I thought that I might do one. I think I covered a lot of my tropes as posts, so I was going to just forget the trope post. Then I read Nathan's again, and realized it was like a who's who of what he would talk about in his own posts. I think I'll do mine as a retrospective of subjects I talked about, subjects that there isn't much to talk about, and maybe a couple that I still need to get to.This includes some pictures I borrowed from Creative Commons, because I like the Creative Commons concept. And then later there are some memes that I just borrowed from the internet in general. On with the tropes.

Multi-night sleepovers with school friends and neighbourhood friends

Backyard camping

Camping

This is me when I was playing little league. Ok, maybe what I imagined I looked like playing little league.

"Pittsburgh Pirates Spring Training" by Andy Menarchek is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Going shirtless

Wearing shorts (ok, so this one is only valid before my teenage years, I hate wearing shorts)

Rollercoasters

I haven't spent enough summers sliding down water slides. I bet he's glad he wore thos goggles.

"Water Slide" by simon_music is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Sweating

Weddings

Road trips

Mowing the lawn

These are those stickers that get everywhere. And when I say everywhere, I mean your foot.

"Megunticook Burweed" by InAweofGod'sCreation is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 

Hanging out near water

Running through sprinklers as a kid

Those stupid plastic pools that you really couldn't swim in

This is either a fireworks display, or a summer blockbuster movie. Either way, it's in theme.

"Pirates Fireworks" by chrismetcalf is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0  

That year I drank iced tea almost the whole summer while I was at my guard post. That was a weird year, let me tell ya. I mean, I still drank Dr. Pepper, but I drank a lot of sweet tea.

It's a Texas thing. You wouldn't understand.

"IMG_1080" by Dave Betts is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

Scarborough Faire

Outdoor festivals (some do happen in the winter, but the summer ones are the fun ones)

Chris, I was under there impression there were going to be some summer memes.

Chris McGinty is a blogger who doesn’t really hate summer, but he will enjoy it a lot more when he’s independently wealthy, lying on a beach somewhere, and making pottery all day.