Yes, the Klebold home has a swimming pool. Dylan didn’t like to swim in it so much because living in such a rural, wild area, there would often be dead critters floating around in the pool so it would have to be regularly cleaned out with a net.  Dylan’s dad liked to swim routinely and it probably was beneficial when he was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

mm..possibly. Otoh, I tend to think not because Dylan and Zack were probably just a tad too similar in temperament both experiencing depression during the pre-Devon era.  The two wallowing in their own misery may not have had enough momentum and follow-through to not only plan and prepare for NBK but to also finalize details and execute it.  Sure, they may have talked quite a bit in late night phone conversations about what they liked to do to jocks and stuck up snobs in the school because they hated it there or how they’d like to get a gun and just blow their brains out and be free of the misery but never enough to seriously envision it specifically to take it to that next level in order to make it a reality.  Eric plus Dylan was the just the right wrong combination of flammable match and inert striker that when combined to together caused  active spark and combustion.  So, without Eric, NBK with Dylan and Zack might be likely just not highly likely.  There needs to be more externalized anger in the combination which Eric had in spades.

What I meant by that was basically that his cutting was a very private thing.  He would not have wanted to draw attention to his cuts while in school so that classmate knew he did that. If he cut on his arm, he probably wore his trench or a long sleeved shirt to conceal the remnants of his private rituals until they healed up enough.  No problem, and I didn’t take you that way at all. 🙂

I think it was a combination of one part cocky ‘what the fuck are those cowardly pigs doing staying out side and not doing shit’ combined with two parts of ‘what the fuck is going to happen if they storm in here any second?!’ anxious trepidation.

Their way of thinking is very different and foreign from how I see things. So, I’ll just say they can be a bit challenging for me with certain things. lol..   However, my moon in Gemini helps to bridge that gap and we can have a whirlwind with exchanging ideas and intellectual concepts. The verbal repartee is high octane good stuff when we’re vibing on the same wavelength. 🙂 

They absolutely did!  And that must have stung like heck.  They realized their library captive classmates had fled the west, side exit door because that door was still propped open by the SWAT team and they were at one point, staring down the hallway, at the open door, as the cops and EMT were milling about just outside the door (!)  They exchanged gun fire with two SWAT at the door. I get chills just thinking about it. 

Sure do. I’m sure building wads was an enjoyable mental puzzle type thing he liked to do in his spare time but  he probably wasn’t as enthusiastic about it as Eric was.  He helped Eric tweak his wad levels and beta test ‘em. But Dylan deleted his wads, as he said as he wrote at age 15, that he was ‘spiritually, morally trying to cleanse himself’ and sort of bargain with God, the Controller of shit to see if doing stuff like this would improve his life and make him happier.  If he had any wads left on his computer near the end, those would have been deleted along with everything else when he wiped his computer on the eve of 4/20. 

Well, don’t expect much from these dudes on a salary of $5-6 bucks an hour is all I gotta say. lol  Eric probably would be a smidge better with tipping but then he was working full time and Dylan was pretty much a part timer.

Basically, yes. Or a Dominoes. Dirt cheap $6.99 crap pizza.  Though actually, Blackjack tastes a little bit better than either, imo. 

No, that actually wasn’t the reason the two decided to call their mission ‘NBK’. It’s because they both liked the movie a lot and had watched it enough times that Devon mentioned that the boys could recite entire scenes from it word-for-word.  It was an obvious choice ‘secret code’ name (they had a fair few of those) as they soon would become ‘Natural Born Killers’ themselves, of their own making, in their small town.  However, that said: you’re partially correct in that Dylan surely fantasized about going NBK with his ‘Mallory’ lady love there for a while as well as thoughts of Zack being his partner in crime – but before he’d started dating Devon and was distracted from depression. I spoke about the evolution of Dylan’s NBK fantasies in a post from two years ago .  As for ‘using’ Eric, I’d say that business arrangement was mutual and that Dylan and Eric used one another. as a means to achieve each their own ends.  Eric needed Dylan because Dylan was pretty much his only close dude friend and the only one that was on the same destructive wavelength and enjoyed the idea of taking revenge on the school. After the van theft arrest and their inception into the Diversion program, a couple of months later, Dylan and Eric had begun to plan NBK as a thing they would do together. They planned for roughly 14 months together building their arsenal.  However, mentally, Dylan hadn’t fully, begun to commit to Eric as his partner until January ‘99, a time period when he had become very depressed and felt like life was just never going to end for him.  Somehow, up until all of that time, Dylan had imagined various other scenarios with his Halcyon Girl and Zack but also including the one where he managed to actually commit suicide on his own. When none of those panned out – most especially when he didn’t off himself –  he realized that NBK with Eric was the only way to go. It would be easier to go with a mutual that was committed to a plan that ended in dying. Misery loves company and killing together so they could be on that suicide training dying together would be far more easier to achieve than working up the nerve to do it on his own.

Blackjack was a pickup or delivery, grab a quick pizza, kind of place. No dine in.

Yes, the very tall guy behind Jorts dude in the black t-shirt.  Hmm..not sure I see him actually snapping his fingers?  Unfortunately, the nineties video footage is just too blurry to really distinguish that. 

I like to think of that as him writing an earlier draft of his longer suicidal-love letter and it’s scrawled out in a half brainstormed, sloppy style paragraph note. He claims at the end of it that he tried to call her but because he didn’t get a hold of her, so he concludes that she must have been asleep.  Whether he actually worked up the nerve and really did try to call her is unfortunately not knowable.  It’s possible too that he only said he did so for the benefit of the note and making himself seem ‘proactive’ but in actuality, did not really having the courage to phone her at all.  

Yes, m’am. That’s me. 😉 This has been asked a lot so please use the E-C Search and type in “cigarettes”. You’ll want to scroll down a ways until you find all of your answers. 🙂

But the truth is that Eric wasn’t like his Godlike persona “REB”  – he only wished he was. He constructed the tough guy persona for himself in order to survive things. Eric was just this scared, vulnerable, insecure  and hyper sensitive boy that had a lot of unresolved, built up strong feelings he could barely identify let alone feel safe enough to verbally express himself properly in a productive sort of way- and so those tidal wave feelings bottled up and became negative and angry.  Every feeling was replaced by “I’m angry” and even all the sadness was masked behind that.  I do not see it beyond Eric to attempt cutting while in private as a way to relieve the tensions mounting within him and purge the pain and sadness.  Keep in mind, I’m not saying he did but I don’t think it’s impossible or that he is not the type to.  In the privacy of his bedroom, late at night, where no one could see him, Eric would let himself go…