Re: Some of my former friends
RustedCorpse - I can assure you there is no fiction here. And Mark is my idol.
Ok I will try this again. As I said I wrote out 3 stories but I guess the form timed out. Keep in mind I am 38 now and this happened 20 years ago.
This one is about Kevin. He was 19 and I was 18. He had just broken up with this GF of 3 years. It was summer and Church festival time. Our local catholic church St. Nicks was having it's annual festival and Kevin and I were at the beer tent. (I think the legal drinking age was 19 back then, but it was not enforced here) We were both already lit.
Kevin walks away to go talk to someone else. His ex-gf spots me and comes over and starts to chat. She was not aware Kevin was with me. He spots this and immediately thinks I am trying to tag his ex. Not even close, but that is what he thought.
He is getting upset over this and starting a scene at the beer tent. I attempt to calm him down, but it is not working. After a bit he is still angered, but more at seeing his ex and not at me. I suggest we leave and he agrees.
We get into his car (and I can see the smoke coming of the top of his head). His car is parked on the top of a 6 foot hill. At the bottom of the hill is the Struthers Baseball Fields surrounded by a chain link fence. Instead of backing up into the parking lot, Kevin puts the car in forward, drives down the hill, over the fence right onto the baseball field. He proceeds to start doing donuts on the field with the amazed festival goers looking on.
I am screaming at him to stop and he is just laughing. He finally stops the donuts, runs over another section of the fence out of the field and heads for the street.
He takes the first possible right once we are on the road. Coming right at us in the opposite lane is a police crusier with it's lights on. (Presumably coming for Kevin). He looks at me and says "Watch this" and them slams right into the crusier. JESUS.
He then backs his car up and takes off. He takes the first left possible, stops his car, looks at me and says "Dude, you gotta get in the drivers seat". LOL
I jump out of the car and start to run and then realize that I did nothing wrong and stop. Then, BOOM, BOOM , BOOM, we are surrounded by Struthers Finest. They tell me to take a hike and Kevin is hauled to jail.
He did a 6 month stint in county and has to pay $1500 for damage to the crusier. I know for a fact he still owed this money over 10 years later.
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