Stupid Teenage Moment

Everybody does it. At least, I think they do. Cut school once in their life.  I was a late bloomer with this one.  I had been a good girl all the way up until my senior year. Never did a bad thing in my life; no smoking, drinking, drugs, sneaking out... nothing.  But there came a day where a friend of mine and I decided it would be fun to skip the morning classes and go get breakfast.  I had my parents Van that I had been driving to and from school for a while.  It was pretty dirty, thanks to me and my lazy ways.  So I thought, what a great surprise it would be to take it through a car wash for Mom and Dad and have it looking good again. 

So we did.  My friend and I paid top dollar for the best car wash you could get. A whole $7!!! We were so excited after it was all over that we high fived each other.  If we were gonna get caught cutting class, at least we did something productive! Maybe to lighten to load of the punishment? It's funny the way kids think.

After the car wash, my friend and I headed over to Burger King for our needed breakfast.  We both ordered milkshakes (yes in the morning! Yum!) and an egg sandwich.  We had taken our breakfast out to the Van for fear that someone, anyone, might see us and report us skipping school. When we came outside to the Van we were amazed and furious at the same time. It would seem that every bird the in Delaware Valley decided to take a dump right on my car. It was just covered from end to end in bird dung.  What a waste of a good $7!!  We got into the car and drove down the pike, towards a parking lot to pull over and eat when I got the BRILLIANT idea to turn the windshield wipers on... I had no wiper fluid mind you so you can imagine what happened next. Well, the bird crap didn't just go away, it smeared ALL OVER the windshield to the point where I could barely see. By this point, it was so stupid it was funny and my friend and I were laughing hysterically. What were we going to tell my parents? Actually, to this day, I don't think I did.... even though I am sort of telling them now.

Sorry Mom.

And here's the kicker.  My friend had had enough of her milkshake and SHE had gotten the bright idea of letting it go outside the window of the moving Van.  Now you can imagine what happened after THAT! Yes, of course because of the wind and the traveling Van, the milkshake did not drop to the street like she had hoped but rather streaked down the entire side of the vehicle! What a mess two teenagers caused in little over one hour!! 

I don't remember how we cleaned it up; that $7 was all we had.  But I do believe we found a way to get the car clean and looking fine by the end of the school day, which we never made it to.

I miss those days!