Recalling an Experience

One of the greatest things God has blessed us with is memory. As relatively intelligent people we have the ability to remember phrases, songs, and recall events that happen in our lives. Everyday each one of us experience hundreds of events; many of which just flow through our brains with no specific meaning. Occasionally we will experience something that has a significant occurrence and we will learn from it. At the beginning of spring break sophomore year I made a ginormous mistake that had many consequences. Fresh out of class a few of my friends and I decided to have a little camp out to kick off our break. Little did we know that our camp out was going to turn into a fight with the neighbors that the cops would have to resolve.

The first night of spring break my friend Nick sent me a text asking if I would like to have a camp out with a few of our other friends. Without even thinking I asked my dad if I could go. Although he was a little hesitant he let me go. Around ten o'clock my friends and I all met at Austin's house right down the street from mine. We started to play some games on his Xbox and then decided to get some alcohol and have a campfire in his backyard. At the time this sounded like the best idea any of us had ever came up with. Two of my friends went and got some beer while the rest of us stacked wood into the fire pit and started a fire. As soon as they got back we all cracked open a beer and started to tell stories about previous parties and certain things that were happening in school at the time. While we were laughing and carrying on Austin's neighbors were having a horrendous fight.

During the middle of one of my famous stories his neighbors came bursting out the back door of the apartment yelling and screaming at each other. Quickly we all jumped to our feet and began to listen. As we listened we all began to notice that this women was fighting with her boyfriend and was tearing him a new one for something he had done. Slightly impaired and being immature guys we began to yell across the street egging her on and making fun of her boyfriend. This was the biggest mistake of the night we were soon to find out. After having our fun and pissing him off even more we cleaned up the campfire mess. We took our trash to the dumpster across the street to throw away the beer cans so Austin's parents wouldn't find out. Without any warning the man across the street came running across the yard with a baseball bat and began screaming down our throats about being on his property. Angry and drunk the man was getting his revenge for what we said to him earlier in the night. Scared and uneasy we did everything that he told us to up until he said he was calling the cops. We all knew this was not a possibility.

Darting one by one we ran back down the road to the house; weaving just in case the man decided to throw the bat at any of us. By this time Austin's dad had came outside and was up in the man's face telling him to leave us alone. Feeling bad we spilled our guts to his dad telling him everything that happened that night. After being relieved of the guilt we walked up stairs to go to bed. Just as I turned the corned to go into Austin's room; flashing red and blue lights lit up the house. My heart dropped and I fell to the ground thinking my dad is gonna kill me if he finds out about this. The cops made their way into the house and set us in the living room. While his partners were outside taking the neighbors side of things and searching the yard. The cop grilled us forcing the truth out of us. After he declared the situation as an underage drinking party and asked for our parents phone numbers. He called each of them telling them to come remove their kids from the premises.

Living the closest my dad was the first one to his house and I could tell it was going to be a long night. Knowing my dad very well I can tell what my punishment will be just by knowing how angry he is. When I looked at him this night there was no telling what was gonna happen. Silence was the beginning of my punishment. My parents didn't talk to me for the entire spring break after this event. It didn't matter if I started conversation or not they were not going to say a word to me. As they did this they built up my curiosity of what the rest of my punishment was gonna be. The night before I went back to school they informed me that I had to give a statement of what happened to the principle at school and made me give them my phone and computer. The principles punishment was that I had to miss 20% of my current sport's games and that I had to take an alcohol class along with a drug test. After hearing this I knew that this would be a life changing experience.

Although the punishment is over with now I still am affected by my mistake. I learned many things from that night that never will be forgotten. One lesson was that alcohol majorly impairs judgement. Now I understand why you cant drink and drive and why you need to be twenty one to consume it. I understand that you need to know how to make good decisions before and after consumption. This experience was very painful and made me feel like a horrible person but I understand that it was just a sign showing me what could happen if I continued to do illegal things. In my opinion I got off very easy and am lucky that I didn't get hurt. My memory of this experience will continue to stay with me and one day I will tell my children about it just so they don't make the same mistakes that I did.