School Story
We had a party on a Friday night at my house on Old National Hwy my senior year. My folks were out of town, and a few of the guys came over to drink some beer (a pretty rare event back then). Word got out, and we had 30 guys running around Margaret and Roy's house, mostly drunk.
Some of the guys started wrestling in the living room and got cut on the brick fireplace. I think it was Pat Monroe and Pat McCoy, and they left blood spots all over the shag carpet. Len Yancey played Ina Gada Da Vida with his senior ring on my parents wooden coffee table. David Toller and the Trotter boys had a bench press contest on our screened-in front porch and tore out a screen. Our girlfriends drove up,and Steve Roper ran out in his underwear and ran them off.
They finally left, and my brother Kim and I spent the weekend cleaning up all the blood and beer and cigarettes. We found Charlie Flemming upstairs asleep in my sister's bed that afternoon.
My parents came home on Sunday, and we had the windows open so they couldn't smell anything. My mother saw the dents in her coffee table and asked what happened. I told her I was working on a project, and the hammer most have dented it.
My dad didn't seem to notice, but my mom was suspicious. I confessed to her years later, and she just laughed. When you are parents, things look different as the years go by. You look back with affection on many things that disturbed you at the time. I guess that's what love does, huh.
