an excerpt from my book of life
...After hours of reckless driving behind the weel of a station wagon, painting the town with our youthful mob style mayhem the night came to an end. We scored big time with sevrel melted mailboxs and fires left to burn in garbage cans and old sofas, eggs flew from the car windows along with morals and human decency. Ask me now if that man deserved a full slurpee to the back of his neck and I would say no, he was just walking on a cool summers night, his cell phone to his ear, back in those days it was his fault he should have been looking out for kids like me. I do. I walk down the road and thoughts of how I was make me flich when cars drive by.
The thing with this night was; it was uncharted, unplanned and completly unchecked. It was any other weekend at the movies until we got bored. Then the "mom we are staying to watch a another movie it starts midnight and doesn't end till late" lie came into play. It was about 11 when that call was made which gave us ample time to cure bordom. 3 cars we filled, it wasn't "boys will be boys" anymore from the moment we piled into three mid-size vehicles we become a convoy of high school soldiers without a clear mission we were AWOL anything was possible. We drove and rained hell everyone we went without fear and came out with no regrets, it was almost as if we, not as a group, but each of us individually had a person vendetta against LI. For aout 4 hours we were our own law, we did anything we wanted without fear we made the rules, we left our conciouses at home that night, and we took turns playing God.
Looking back on it now I wonder what exactly was going through everyone elses head. I remember mine was clear and focused one thing destruction, but was everyone elses? Or was that just my goal? My only answer that holds was we all had destruction on the brain other wise it never would have gone as far as it did. The slurpee was like the pebble that started the avalanche after that it was downhill. I can't remember ever feeling so alive so invincible. It was one of those nights where it can never be forgotten and should never be forgived. Do I have any regrets? Well yes and no. No because it was something very special to see a bond of botherhood come forever between us that night. And yes because it ended that night. Never again did all of us go out like that together and cause a ruckus. If I could relive one moment forever it would have to be that night and I wouldn't change a thing about it....
more to come?