Friday, April 1, 2005
Following last week’s spring break, Heidi Mellencall, Blue Valley junior, told friends and roommates that she “raged” in Cancun, Mexico, for the past week. She admitted yesterday that she in fact spent her break at home at her parents’ house.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Staci Bettendorf, Chicago junior and Mellencall’s friend, said. “She’s so tan and she talked about being in a wet T-shirt contest. She said she hooked up with Fat Joe.”
Mellencall came clean, saying that she went to a tanning salon every other day to give herself a bronze, spring-break glow.
“I actually did hook up with Fat Joe, but he works at the Subway around the corner from my parents,” Mellencall said.
She admitted that most of her Cancun stories came from half-hour segments which aired on MTV’s “Spring Break” series.
“She told us she was a contestant on 50 Cent’s ‘Spring Break Candy Shop,’ whatever that means,” Mellencall’s mother Judy said. “She doesn’t even like sweets.”
Mellencall told friends that she met Beyoncé and that she seemed really smart. She also said Rob Schneider was better looking in person.
“We should have figured it out then,” friend Heather Stevens said.
Mellencall tried to emulate the Cancun spring break she had hoped for by not bathing regularly, drinking excessively and acting slutty, which she said included entering a wet T-shirt contest in downtown Kansas City, Mo.
“I really was gross,” Mellencall said. “I woke up most mornings sweating booze. I let a guy named Fat Joe do tequila shots out of my belly button because he gave me extra Subway stamps, and I was in a wet T-shirt contest with five ladies my mom’s age who had more scars than teeth.”
Edited by Ross Fitch
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