Alright, today I planned on sleeping after getting home from school, but I couldn't help myself from playing some GTA :P
It's around 7PM, and it's getting dark out, day is almost over. My friend calls me (we shall call him Darren), and says he is with his cousin and cousin's friend (John; Shaun), they want to hang out. I decide to get out of the house and tell them I'll meet up with them. We are on our way to Darren's house. On our way there, about two cars full of college kids (not consecutive) drive by and scream at us.
Now this happens to us all the time. We live near a university, so there are always college kids driving by on the weekends, that throw trash at us, or scream at us when they drive by. It can get pretty annoying. So one day me and my buddy Darren decided, we'll carry a small rock or stick around and throw it at their car when they throw something at us or yell. Not something overly large that will damage it, just enough to let them know we hit them with something. So some days there would be a point where we would be carrying something small, decide to just drop it since no one drives by and bothers us, so we leave the object behind. And when someone would drive by, throw trash, yell, swerve close to the sidewalk etc., we never had anything to throw.
So tonight, we were just wandering around the area around Darren's house and decided to stop by there and get something to drink. We are right around the corner from Darren's, roughly halfway down the street, and a SUV drives by, they stick their head out the window and scream at us. John says "God dammit Tyler, why don't you ever have a rock with you?". Thinking quick, I see a small rock in the street, I grab it and throw it at the back windshield of the SUV. There is a small "pop", and the SUV stops right in it's tracks. Darren, John and Shaun are already running down the street. I'm trailing behind them, the driver of the SUV yells "You better loving run you piece of stuff" - no doubt he is angry - and we run around the corner. My three friends run into Darren's apartment, by the time I was passing by the apartment, the SUV of college kids was already turning around. So I continue to run down the street, I know I'm going to get the stuff beaten out of me if these guys get a hold of me. I am passing by someone's lawn where at the edge they have a small concrete wall, so I hide behind that.
They begin to drive down the street, I keep looking around the corner of the small wall to see how close they are, the headlights shine on me and they see me. I run into someone's backyard and there is this steep hill with trees, bushes etc. So I jump in there and throw myself down the hill, I hear the car doors open so they are getting out. I finally get to the bottom and out of there, they are probably back in the SUV now, it's not like they are going to leave it behind. Now I'm behind this small row of one-floor apartments, so I go around it and across the street. I'm starting to run out of breath, to the point where your throat gets cold and scratchy, you know what I'm talking about, right? So I get into the university parking lot and hide behind a car. John calls me and asks me what is happening, I let him no I have no time to talk and I'm exhausted so I hang up.
I stay behind the car for a minute or so then make my way down to a snack booth right next to the football field, I hide behind that and tie my shoe. I leave the parking lot and continue running down the street, I just don't want to stop running, but I keep running out of breath and stop behind a tree. I'm there for a few seconds before I go up this small hill onto the side of the highway. Not a highway-highway, like with toll booths, one of those small ones in a suburban/residential area. So I'm behind the guard rail, I call John and let him know to meet me in the university lobby. Meanwhile, I decide I don't want to be seen, so I climb this fence where there is a large banner covering it, so I can be behind that. I reach a side entrance to the university and enter. I make my way down the hall, and over to the next building where the lobby is. I finally meet up with the three, and describe to them what happened after we got separated.
In hindsight, it was a pretty bad idea but not a totally boring day after all :P
Here is a highlighted map of the route I took incase I didn't describe it well enough for you.
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1. Area around Darren's house.
2. Where car drives by and I throw the rock.
3. Where I hid behind the short wall, cut the yard, down the hill.
3.5. Going around the corner from the one-floor apartments, crossing the street.
4. Hiding behind a car, catching my breath.
5. Tying my shoe behind the snack booth.
6. Catching my breath again behind the tree.
7. Getting onto the "highway".
8. Climbing over the fence.
9. Entering the university.
10. Reuniting with my friends c:
So I guess, discuss your close calls or stupid mistakes you've made? Or discuss this.
MegaScience's idea to post this after I told him about it on Steam :o
