Day 26

Backseat Freestyle by Kendrick Lamar

Sunday scaries hit exponentially different. That said, I’d like to reminisce on a happier time.

Everyone had their liner spot in high school when you couldn’t drive. You were still in that weird part in life where you can’t drive and kind of too old to bike but you still did it. It was like wearing hand me down clothes that didn’t quite fit you.

Ours was the McDonald’s. That night was extraordinary, though, as we were planning our first big high school shindig for New Years.

We waited around anxiously to make plans. One of our buddies had a light bulb moment to hit up one of our friends who had a chill mom that we could for sure sneak some alcohol into.

“hey man can we have a party at your place tonight?”

“uhhh…let me ask my mom. Hey mom can I have people over tonight?”

*faintly in the background* “Absolutely not.”

“Yeah, sure, you guys can come.”

Game on.

We went over and immediately started sending out invites. Our host had a few older siblings who had some alcohol lingering around. Nothing quite like a testosterone filled basement reeking of piss and vinegar that had no idea how to drink, let alone what to do when the girls came over.

One of our buddies had the grand idea to play beer pong on the ping pong table. I partnered up with another lefty and proceeded to play my first ever game of pong. We lost in a shootout. Actually, I don’t even think it was close.

We had this song playing in the background.

The night ended exactly has you might have predicted. The host ended up getting blasted and tried his best to cover it up. He went upstairs when his mom asked “what are you doing?”

“I gotta let my dogs out.” and proceeded to faceplant on the newly fallen snow.