Why the last 36 hours where the worst of my life...

Paul-o-Rama

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      ok, so abvout 36 hours ago, on monday night, one of my Girlfriend's best friend (lets call him jack) was sitting with another friend (lets call him brian) at a bus stop near my girlfriend's house.  some people came up, pulled a gun, requested all of their shit.  jack handed the guy his wallet, brian handed him his cellphone and was digging in his pocket for other stuff and the guy with the gun started beating him over the head with the butt of the gun.  it went off and hit jack in the stomach (he is 17).  

      then at 1:30 friday night, after falling asleep fully clothed with a zippo in my pocket, i wake up to find out that somehow, in my sleep, the lighter fell out of my pocket and lit my mattress on fire.  I am so startled because i was completely asleep that i pat it out with my left hand and end up getting melted plastic all over it and 2nd degree burns on three of my fingers.  i tell my parents what happened and of course they accuse my of smoking on my bed and don't believe me that i was completely asleep.  they spend the rest of the day lecturing me on smoking tree and i am trying to convince them that i wasn't and kept offering to take voluntary drug tests because i havn't smoked in over a month and knew i would come up clean.

   Fast forward to last night, I go to a baseball game with my girlfriend because we both need a distraction from everything in our lives.  I got my driver's license a week and a half ago and california law stipulates that i must wait a year or until im 18 before i bring any passengers in my car.  so the plan was for me to drive to my girlfriend's house and then we will walk to the same bus stop where her friend was shot and get on the bus to go to the game.  when i go to her house, she gets in my car and says that she doesn't feel comfortable walking by the spot and especially since we are going to have to walk by the spot again at night on our way back.  so i say ok and drive to the bus stop, park right in front and then we take it to the game, we come back after, get in my car, i drive her back to her house, (>5 minutes away) we park right near her house and we hook up bla bla bla.  after that, she gets a call from her mom's partner and doesn't answer but i drive her right up to her house and her mom's partner is looking out the window and knows that im not supposed to be driving her.  i see that she is on the phone and find out that it is to my dad.  when i get home, i try to explain about being worried about going by the spot where jack got shot and brian got beat with a gun but he doesn't listen and takes my license away until i get back from costa rica on july 7th.

so to sum everything up, I lost my license, I have second degree burns on three of my fingers on my left hand, my parents think i'm smoking tree, one of my girlfriend's best friends is in the hospital in critical condition with gun shot wounds.  fuck the last 36 hours

 
Damn man, that sucks. Atleast you wont need your license in Costa Rica. Don't worry it will go by pretty fast. I hate to say this too, but this will be put aside when worse things happen.
 
"when it rains, it pours'

has been how it is with me the past few years. when one bad thing has happened, a bunch more soon follow. You'll be out of the shit times soon man, just keep your head up.
 
wow you need to work your parents in, right now they got you soooo whipped. but otherwise that shit really blows man, you'd think after getting 3rd degree burns on your hand your parents would want to be all calm and like nurture you back to health.... instead they bitch about it? like you need to hear that.
 
yeah, but i don't know what to do about them, last night when they got pissed and took my license, my dad was like "paul, are you trying to rebel? is that why you lit your bed on fire from smoking, is that why you decided to drive casey?  are you trying to push teh boundaries" i have no idea what to do about them
 
be stern, but polite, with them, say "DAD, drive me to the pharmacy please," pick up a drug test (can you buy those?) and then be like, "Listen to me, please let me prove to you I'm telling the truth."
 
yesterday i was like "please, i will take a drug test voluntarily, i just want to prove to you that i was not smoking," but they wouldn't listen
 
and don't beg, it will seem weak and childish to them - be solid, stern, and determined and hopefully they'll see that you're mature (not saying you aren't, but they've probably lost a bit of trust in you because of this incident) and that you're serious.
 
yeah, i'll try that, thanks for the help. i've never really gotten in trouble like this before.  i think they took my cell phone away once, but other than that, i'm generally a good kid, i don't get in trouble, or do things to break their trust
 
wow. wow. i smoke everynight in my room and it hasnt caught on fire yet, i dotn evn see how its possible to start a fore smoking in ur room... less u blow the cherry out and dont pick it up... smoke dat shit till its cashed n u wont hava problem.
 
wow that really sucks, you must have done some stuff that makes your parents not trust you in the past so if you really want them to trust you just stay clean and respecful until you go to costa rica

but if you haven't done anything before that sucks even more
 
i've never done anything to lose their trust, if i'm late i always call, i always tell them where i am and who im with, they never caught me with anything or drunk or high.  they are just bitches
 
after having parents that dont listen to shit, ive realized that if you yell at them alot and swear and make your point known they will realize that you arent a bitch and they start listening a little better.im sure someone will say this is bad advice, but in my experience, if you try to be reasonable over and over and it still doesnt work, they will keep bending you over until you do something about it.
 
wow that sucks alot man. Hope your girlfriends friend gets better. And how did a Zippo light when it fell out of our pocket ?! thats crazy.
 
they'll come around eventually, it will take a while though

ask to do stuff with your parents, like go to the mall or something
 
for the smoking part, go to a pharmacy yourself (walk or get a ride from a friend) buy a home drug test kit, do it, show them your clean. if they still dont believe you, well that would be straight up unfair. and best of luck to your friend who got shot.
 
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