Daily Archives: June 18, 2010
Storage In Portsmouth – Helping You Grow Up
There are few indisputable facts in the world, but here are a few of them: guys who dress as Santa are creepy, water is wet and men never really grow up. I’ve got a fairly extensive comic collection and spend way more money than I should on gadgetry, films and video games, not to mention that I down a ridiculous amount of energy drinks to get myself through the day (because I’ve been staying up all night playing video games). Essentially, I still live like I’m a student, as did one of my friends. However, he’s just started making out like he’s an adult and all his comics into storage in Portsmouth.
It was the end of an era when he moved away from Colchester and headed up to Portsmouth with his other half for a job; we used to head to the comic shop every week just to see what was out like the dutiful geeks we were, and we used to head to the pub and discuss them at least once a week, or our ideas for our own series, which got more and more outlandish every time, especially as the evenings went on and more beer was quaffed. Unfortunately, however, those days are gone, he’s moved away and his other half’s having a baby, meaning that he’s having to become an adult.
By ‘becoming an adult’, we mean that the room which was full of comic boxes, framed artwork and everything else that he’d accumulated over the years has been cleared out to accommodate a cot and everything else that miniature human needs. Everything has gone into a storage unit in Portsmouth, the room’s a pleasing shade of yellow and our chats don’t revolve around comics anymore – at least they don’t if the missus is within earshot!
I suppose that’s the thing about guys – we’re all big kids at heart, but ultimately, we’ll wear a grown-up mask when we have to and his dropping the collection into storage in Portsmouth is a symptom of that. It doesn’t mean that he won’t ask me what’s happening in the latest Iron Man series or sneak a look at the trade paperbacks every now and then, but he’s at least pretending that he’s grown out of comics for the time being – at least until the new arrival’s old enough to read them.
