My Favorite Fad

It was during middle school. Around the time that kids started putting gel in their hair to spike up the front so it looked like there was had a wall of hair coming out of your forehead. We had just started wearing Ambercrombie and Fitch, and Brittney Spears had taken over our pale, semi-developed libidos. Times were good, mainly because we had a fixation on WWF Wrestling. While wrestling as a fad wasn't that cool, when we weren't running around putting each other in half nelsons, we did do something that was much cooler. Telling everyone we saw to "Suck It". It wasn't just saying "Suck It". That alone meant nothing, the gesture had to be incorporated. The true "Suck It" gesture is hard to describe, but I would say it involved arching out the pelvis while simultaneously karate chopping either side of your genitals and yelling "Suck It".

Triple H performing the always popular cross suck it variation

To us, telling someone to suck it was par for the course any day at East Hills Middle School. I look back now and wonder how we got away running around telling anyone who would listen to "Suck It". I also look back and think that I hit that fad at the perfect age. I was just old enough to have a vague idea of was was supposed to be sucked, and not too old that I couldn't chalk my behavior up to adolescent innocence.