Thursday, October 30, 2003

what is it with teenagers and cars?

Richard, a kid I go to school with, must hate cars right now. After all, he won't be driving until January at the soonest as of now. Yesterday, he was driving his parents '99 suburban during lunch. We were out in his 'burban, Jay's Mercedes ML320 SUV beast, Eric's Suzuki hatchback, and of course, my ghettomobile. Basically, if one were to drive behind our school, they would find a series of dirt roads that one simply can't pass up the opportunity to go 4-wheeling on. So that's what we did. Richard and Jay (with the SUVs) were having the most fun while Eric and I kept busy pulling the e-brake in the middle of the road. Anyway, after a while, I drove back to school with eric on my tail as Richard disappeared to apparently nowhere. As Jay would later testify to, Richard took a dirt side road which led to a ~12 foot high dirt hill. I guess he took it goin' 20mph or so, and got AIR in his suburban. Yes, that's 4700 pounds of lovin' in the air. All four wheels.
And now, the reason why he hates cars: He bottomed out on the way up. Yeah, we're talking 2 feet long, 10 inches high, a few inches deep, in the driver's side door. In his parent's suburban.
He tried to explain the mysterious hit and run in the burger king parking lot to his parents, but they would not buy it. He eventually fessed up with the truth, which led to his groundation from his family's vehicles until early next year.
And to think, we went back out today with mine and Jay's cars (he has the Mercedes SUV, remember?) back to the same spot. While we only took small hills in the general area, I believe a good time was had by all. Then Eric got the *great* idea of taking our cars up a good sized hill which leads to the back of the school by the canal. We're talking a backroad, one lane, cliff on one side, ACID canal on the other, RIGHT BY THE SCHOOL! We drove by the classroom we were late for class for, and slid down the hill leading to a paved road. Okay, so it was a lot more exciting when we were there, plus you have to have seen our campus to appreciate the coolness of it all.
Oh, did I mention we got all this on tape, but NOT RICHARD JUMPING his suburban? Do you feel the bitterness radiating from your computer monitor? Did I mention that I had already gone to class when he did it?! He didn't even FsCKING TELL ANYONE HE WAS GOING TO DO IT!!! Oh, yeah, feel that anger and frustration pouring from the screen....