Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Memoir Free write
There was a time not too long ago, the day before New Years in fact, that I did something that was very stupid and that I've come to regret. I so happened to be hanging out with my friends Justin, Nathan, Ryan, and Brad that day. We hadn't been doing much that day, we just were playing some catch, and we also played some Fifa Soccer for the Xbox, which I am not going to lie I am pretty good at. Bayern Munchen is my team and I always beat everyone when I am that team. Everyone gets mad at me because they are all sore losers. Only so many videogames can be played until you get bored though. We were playing for a while and it was getting late, around 10, and we decided to go drive around. Now around this time of the year people still had all their Christmas decorations up and other decorations for the holidays. Now being bored teenagers we decided that we were going to have some fun with all of these decorations. We went around a neighborhood and my friends would get out of the car and would knock peoples decorations over and would take the little orbs that people would have in their yard because they thought they were so cool. Now keep in mind this was a little car and I was sitting in the middle so I couldn't even get out. So I was not the one being the vandal. Brad and Ryan would get out and mess with peoples stuff and would occasionally make people's reindeer look like they were doing things that were innapropriate. I knew at the time that this whole thing wasn't very smart and I kept telling them. At one particular house a man was outside in his car and saw them get out and mess with someones yard, he immediately got out and followed us. Brad and Ryan ran so the only people in the car were the people that didn't do anything. Justin tried to make it on a main road before he could catch us but he called the police and they came before he could reach it. They made us get out of the car and put our hands up, it was probably one of the scariest moments that I have been through. Not to mention it was very cold. After everything was sorted out, they called our parents and we had to be picked up. I personally was not in trouble because I didn't do anything wrong. My parents were furious with me and I was definately in very big trouble, there went my new years! I will never allow myself to get in a situation like that again and I have learned a lot from this experience.
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Hi Andrew:
ReplyDeleteGood story. I might have a similar story of my own:)
If you decide to go with this one, the trick will be to uncover the significance--rather than a lesson, how do you relate to rebellion? It sounds like your first attempt was squashed. I'm not sure there was much danger in your actions, but there certainly are in other pranks. Why do you think kids are willing to flirt with danger? Just something to get you thinking about significance.
First of all. I bet that I could beat you in FIFA, but that's besides the point. This is a good story. We've all had stuff like this happen before so don't worry. If you do this as a memoir though, just make sure you can find something that you learned about it, and how its changed you.
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