Adventure

There, I said it. It's out there and I'm not taking it back. I'll even say it out loud for the sake of being thorough on my blog. If I suffer the repercussions, know it was for you. So I had stated that once a week I will take a topic someone suggests, if there are any, and write about it and it looks like Marlon has challenged me to write about the word adventure. I will explain our aversion to the word via my favorite method, anecdotally.

Stating the word adventure is a great tool with a high cost. You see when you say that you want to have an adventure, and mean it, you will have an adventure. The downside to saying the word, is cops get involved (we theorize that it could be something negative, such that if you want police to show up, they won't and something much worse would occur). To this point I have walked away from each situation unharmed and with no repercussions, but there will be a time where my luck will run dry. Here's where the anecdotes begin.

Incident 1: Marlon, Waldino, Roadie and myself were dropping something off at Waldino's house. After Waldino gets back in the car we notice not only is there a police helicopter circling above us, there seems to be an abundance of cop cars in the neighborhood. Roadie decides that he wants to check it out, that it will be "an adventure", and so we are partially to blame since we listened to Roadie. After seeing a few cop cars and getting our fill we decide we're done and want to leave, the only thing is we got ourselves lost. You see where Waldino used to live was one of those neighborhoods with a few dead-end streets and a plethora (yes, more than useful) of looping streets that will make it impossible to stick to our grid-like system in the AV. We start pulling up on a T-section in which a cop car is parked, we approach it with caution and as we get closer the cop pulls his gun out and points it at Marlon's head. We are sufficiently freaking out about now, but trying to stay calm, as we pass the car the cop yells out, "Got nothing better to do?" and we just leave.

Incident 2: Matt, Stanley, Bobby and myself are driving around town because Matt had a bad day, also to note the word had been said whilst driving around. After Matt starts getting into a better mood the guys decide they want some food so Matt pulls into McDonald's. They order their food and everything is fine, except it turns out Matt had bought a cap gun earlier and was joking about pointing at the cashier. The guys wrestle over the cap gun so that Matt doesn't do this absolutely retarded idea. At one point during said wrestling the gun is waved out of the window, the car behind us obviously sees it, backs up and drives the hell off. We get the food, pull around and park so they can eat. As you can probably guess the cops show up now, just one car at first. We're told to put our hands on the car and then we're frisked (cop fingers linger and Mandog's taint.....) and while being searched the situation was explained briefly. Two of the guys get put into the back while they look up our records and another cop car pulls up. Very shortly after car number two pulls in cars three through six also pull in. The cops talk over the situation while Bobby and I still have our hands on the hood, during this discussion a female cop is ranting, "I don't care if it's one time or a hundred times we should press charges!" After a few minutes the cops give us our stuff back, let the two out of the back and say, "Get out of here."

Incident 3: Marlon, Waldino and myself hang out for the first time in almost a year so we want to go on an adventure. This was roughly a year ago today because it was during the Perseid's Meteor Shower which is currently occuring. We drive out to a secluded part of the desert and watch the meteor shower for a while after trying to do so at a park and seeing nothing. Once we had our fill of staring at space Waldino tells us that we should go to Eastside Highschool to look at their campus. We pull up and decided to put on a random selection of extra clothing out of Marlon's car and grab instruments. We walk around in the parking lot for a while playing stuff (Marlon: Guitar, Waldino: Bongos, me: Cowbell) and come across a gate that isn't locked and decide to just walk around. As soon as we take two steps into the gate a cop car is behind us and flashed his lights, at this point I'm like, "SHIT RUN!" and take a pre-running step and think, "That's a horrible idea, stop and turn around." The cop asks us a series of reasonable questions, gets our answers, tells us what we're doing isn't a good idea and then proceeds to say, "Now get out of here before I freaking pee my pants."

Incident 4: I wasn't present for, so I don't know very many of the details but to summarize. Marlon, sisters and Hannah go on a roadtrip to meet an author for his birthday. Was mislead and realized San Diego is too far to go to meet him in time so they'll roadtrip elsewhere. They go to a place called 'Chocolate Mountain' and on the way back are stopped by border patrol. They answer a series of questions and come home afterwards. At some point in the night Adventure was said.

So this is a warning about saying adventure so freely. I am not saying that you should forever forbid the word from your vocabulary, but heed caution, adventure is a powerful word.