{"id":446,"date":"2004-04-13T00:04:50","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T05:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/04\/13\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T20:02:11","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T00:02:11","slug":"tales-of-forgiveness-and-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/04\/13\/tales-of-forgiveness-and-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of Forgiveness and Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mom had two tales to tell while we were over for Easter.<\/p>\n

Tale the First:
Madam Psycho-Next-Door has recently had another child. A baby girl. One day, Jeff’s friend Zach cut across the far part of their yard to get to the high school fence so he could climb over it. Madam PND’s head appeared promptly in the window and she began to scream at him for polluting her yard with his foul presence. Then she added the accusation, “You woke up my baby!”. To which Zach, not being stupid, replied, “If you hadn’t been screaming, she wouldn’t have woken up!”<\/p>\n

Later, my mom related this story to her friend Clara. When it came time for Clara to depart, she told my mom not to pay attention. She backed her car partway down the driveway, then, ever so casually, leaned on the horn for a very long time.<\/p>\n

Tale the Second:
The Saturday the clocks changed, Jeff and some of his friends arrived at the house around 10pm. They went into the basement where there is a computer and a large television and many many video games. Mom stayed in her room, not caring to parade around in front of everyone in her pajamas and bathrobe. After a little while, she hears the door and then the sound of the car, and she thinks that Jeff must have gone to drive everyone home. But then she still hears people in the house, so she is puzzled — until Jeff and one of the girls returns with some donuts. Ah, she thinks, they went to get a snack. A bit later they again depart and come back. And later still they leave for a final time.<\/p>\n

But, of course, the story is not so simple as that, or else it would not be interesting. The first trip was occasioned by one of the girls getting a call on her cell — several friends of theirs, it seems, were drunk and needed a lift back to civilisation. However, after driving out to look for them, they were unable to locate the drunken fools, so purchased donuts and returned to the house. The second time, having acquired better directions, they managed to collect the intoxicated trio, who then proceeded to behave so poorly that Jeff, rather than take them all the way to their homes, was forced to expell them from his car on the side of the road.<\/p>\n

Later, as he brought everyone back home, they passed the place where the boys had been left and found it teeming with policecars. Naturally curious, they wheeled back around to investigate. Unfortunately for them, the people living in the area had given the police a description of the car which had so rudely dumped the drunken boys on their doorsteps, and so the police pulled Jeff and his pals over, patted them down and started to take their information. And then, suddenly, they all raced back to their cop cars and took off, stealing Jeff’s keys and leaving everyone stranded on the side of the road at 2am.<\/p>\n

At this point, mom was called and filled in on the salient details of the evening’s events. Vastly irritated [read: tired and cranky], she called the police station to demand what the hell was going on. She was informed that there was some sort of fight going on at the beach, which was what had pulled all of the police away, and that someone would be right back with the keys. Time passed and no keys were returned, but someone did take pity on the stranded kids and bring them home. So mom and Jeff headed out to retrieve his car with his spare keys, arriving again just as the police did. Everyone went home again.<\/p>\n

Mom called the police station again to express her annoyance at this harrassment and the policeman she talked to made a curious (and possibly legally actionable) statement. He said (among other things): Kid X is a known drug dealer in the area.<\/p>\n

Not ‘alleged’, not ‘suspected’, but ‘known’. Except that Kid X has 1) never been arrested and 2) is a MINOR.<\/p>\n

What. The. Fuck.<\/p>\n

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