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"making out" is a staple of the the Richmond social diet. it's fascinating and not a little fraught with peril. "making out" means some sort of extended kissing and groping...like snogging, although it can also mean to get a really good deal, or to discern something clearly, so you can see how i get confused.

as in:

he sold us the entire knife set AND the nun chucks for five dollars, we really made out!

or:
In the dark I couldn't quite make out whether it was him or his sister.



or..confusingly:
i don't remember his name, but we drank like 10 beers each and made out.


most of the time you can go on context, but not always, so beware.

i was at a show on Friday night at Casey and Marshé 's store and was introduced to some kid who got that dreamy faraway look in his eyes we all long to see in those of recent acquaintance.

we talked for a few minutes before he said "we should hang out or make out sometime"

i thought that i misheard him over the bad band from New York, but someone present repeated it to me later, so yep, i guess that was the real offer for kissing.

wow

an offer indeed.

one fellow who likes to mosey up and smooch ladies on the piste de dance was labeled by Marshe as a "walk up make-outer" . This, perhaps needless to say, is a bad thing.

So if, like me, you thought that french kissing and heavy petting was indelibly linked to sex....as in.... basically something to do with you face during....well, come to Richmond and think again!

Here you can kiss someone's stinky sweaty party mouth...or even more than one person, if you're feeling exuberant, and not worry that you have made a solemn oath to fuck them all night long! really!! people here do it all the time!

so for those coming to visit me in the near future, keep this in mind and brush up with mirrors, the backs of your hands, anything handy that you find around the house and prepare to make out!