Well, it seems it was boring at the beach place of PW's parents, so PW, DG & JAL decided to spice things up. They pooled their money, and had some older boys buy them some T-Bird. They had a few sips of the wine-next thing to furniture polish-but P's parents came home. Nope, they didn't get caught then, and later they decided to hide the bottle after P's parents went to sleep. It was going to be their courage at a party next evening.They snuck out of the house into the darkness of Vashon Island with a flashlight but no shovel. Realizing burying it was out of the question, they hid it under some bushes.
They didn't wait long enough. P's dad was holding the T-Bird bottle when they woke up. Of course when the question of the knowledge of the hidden rot-gut came up they played dumb. P tried to throw her brother under the bus and say it might be his, but that didn't work. I don't think they made it to the party that night.
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES
Five of 'The Darlings of the Class of '60' decide to head to the Auto View for a movie, or something. Names will be withheld for now. The five piled into the 'Mafia Wagon' and away they went. As good honest students, two of them hop into the trunk so they would only have to pay for three. No, you may think I am wrong calling them good-at least they didn't have more in the trunk.
It seems one of them, whose initials are DG, was able to procure three cans of Rainier from her mother. She would have taken more but there wasn't enough and it would have been obvious, or at least that was her story. Another of the diabolical group, Initials PW, was able to supply the cigarettes, lifted from her mother's purse I would surmise, and worse than that they were menthols. The two in the trunk, JK and JL, were let out of the trunk when it was safe and they all pied into the 'Mafia Wagon'. I guess you also need to know that it was a 1936 Nash.
Of course it would give them away if someone saw smoke coming from the car, so they rolled the windows up tight. Later, with eyes watering, smelling like an ashtray, and thinking they were drunk, they decide to go to the snack bar. As they walked away from the car, an employee at the Auto View, JE; that's using the word employee' loosely, rushed to the car thinking it was on fire due to the amount of smoke coming from it.............no one remembers what the movie was!
GOSH, I MUST HAVE FORGOTTEN
While returning from a wonderful day in Aberdeen visiting her sister, and doing who knows what, two of Stadium's Class of '60 special ladies are sure no one is going to know that they skipped school. Ah, probably their second mistake, even though they thought it had been a 'piece of cake'. When P walks into the house, pretending it had been a tough day at school, her mom asks "How is JAL?" Cool, calm and collected, she replies "Fine." No more, no less. Well, what she didn't know was that while she was skipping school and having fun in Aberdeen, everyone in school was talking about JAL house having burnt down and JAL had to jump from the house to escape the flames. "Fine." wasn't a good enough explanation of "How is JAL?" Its amazing what little things will get you gronded for a very long time.
WHAT IS THAT SMELL?
Our gang (EJ, RB, RP, FC, BH, CC, JS, BH, ML) loved cruising around in EJ's parents' cars. They were two great now extinct models by Kaiser Frazer - one upscale Fraser and one older (and less luxurious) Fraser. Usually EJ got to use the Kaiser. He would pick us up at a rendezvous point, collect gas money contributions, and drive us all over Tacoma and (depending on how much gas we had) out in the tules, where we all sat outside of the vehicle on the roof and the hood, bouncing up and down over over the dirt roads.
Well, a couple of us got bored one day and decided to play a trick on EJ, and coincidentally his parents. We purchased a small lump of real limburger cheese and put it under the floormat under the driver's seat. The mat was a little loose anyway. After a few days a smell was definitely noticeable. It got worse as time went by. And worse. EJ was frantic-so were his parents, who made EJ clean the car thoroughly several times. When we hid the cheese we assumed it would be found in a couple of days--wrong. We finally had to confess, and EJ's parents 'grounded' us-no joyriding for an extended time. We actually had to walk to school for several weeks!
WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS
It was the summer of 1959 and JAL, PW and a couple of others were leaning against JAL's car. OK; it was her mom's car. As usual, it was 'what are we going to do tonight?' conversation. Just hanging out, smoking, talking, thinking......JAL thought to herself-well, knowing JAL- she probably said "I'll never be as happy as I am this moment!" In many ways that was more truth than fiction. |
