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- "I ran up the stairs as fast as I could, and collided with the security guard. I held my hands over the front of my boxers to not show what was protruding. The security guard looked at me. "What the hell?" He said confused, "what do you have in your hands?" "Nothing" I dumbly replied. The security guard freaked out, and raised his pistol at me, "Raise your hands above your head you terrorist!""
- —Ian Hecox's narration[src]
This apartment building is a fictional location introduced in "Oh, the Joys of Puberty," a 2002 Smosh.com article written by Ian Hecox. In the story, the Hecox family lived in an apartment in this building, where his fictional counterpart started going through puberty and, as a result, suffered persistent wet dreams and erections. One incident two weeks after starting puberty saw Hecox having a wet dream, after which he had to take his bedsheets to a local laundromat.
Description[]
- "I made sure no one was awake, and jetted out of our room, and into the apartment hallway, in my boxers. Some idiot left a window open, and it was like 25 degrees, and I was just in my boxers! I stiffly ran down the stairs, and jumped down onto the freezing concrete sidewalk."
- —Ian Hecox's narration[src]
This apartment building housed at least one apartment, which contained at least one bedroom. Connected to the apartment was a hallway with a window facing outside. The hallway led to a staircase connecting to the outside sidewalk. The apartment building employed a security guard and was one or two blocks away from a laundromat.[1]
History[]
- "Another problem is, that I live in an apartment, and the laundry mat is a block away! I sprung up from bed, and ripped the sheets from off, and bundled them up. I made sure no one was awake, and jetted out of our room, and into the apartment hallway, in my boxers."
- —Ian Hecox's narration[src]
In 2002, an apartment in this building was the residence of the Hecox family, including Ian Hecox, his mother Sharon Hecox, his younger sister, and their pet dog[1] Sparky.[source?] That year, when Ian started puberty at the age of fifteen, he began having wet dreams and frequently soiled his bedsheets, which he would then lose, attributing the loss to ninjas when confronted by his mother. During one such incident two weeks after discovering that he was starting puberty, Hecox was asleep in his bedroom when he had a dream in which he was about to "make sweet love" to a girl when his alarm went off. Upon waking up, he discovered that his bedsheets were soiled for the fifth time that week. Dressed only in his boxers, Hecox ripped the sheets from his bed, bundled them up, checked that no one else in the apartment was awake, and ran out into the cold apartment hallway, where a window had been left open. He hurriedly made his way to a local laundromat, but had to return after forgetting to bring change for the washing machine.
While running up the stairs back to his family's apartment, Hecox collided with a security guard working for the apartment building. Realizing that his erection — which had occurred during his wet dream — had yet to subside, he tried to hide it with his hands, but the security guard mistook it for a weapon and pulled out his gun, accusing Hecox of being a terrorist and ordering him to raise his hands. Hecox followed the guard's order, revealing his erection and causing the guard to burst into laughter. The teenager quickly retrieved his change and left for the laundromat, passing by the still-laughing security guard on his way out. At the laundromat, Hecox saw a homeless man fleeing with his bedsheets. Dejected, he returned to his apartment, where his mother was standing at the door. Hecox lied and told her that ninjas had stolen his sheets again. Over the following two weeks, Hecox soiled and lost his bedsheets an additional five times and blamed ninjas for it each time. At the same time, his sister and, seemingly, his dog laughed at him for his puberty-related mishaps. Hecox was later forced to recount these events, including what occurred at the apartment building, in an article on Smosh.com while under threat from killer gnomes.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
The apartment building was introduced, albeit unidentified, in Smosh media in "Oh, the Joys of Puberty," a Smosh.com article submitted by[1] Staff member Ian Hecox[2] under the username "PubicSmosh" and published on November 13, 2002.[1]
Appearances[]
Oh, the Joys of Puberty on Smosh.com (link) (content removed; backup link) (first appearance)
