Missing the Curve

This is one of my favorite tales from when my parents used to go to Calif. to visit our older brother and leave Larry and I in charge.This one started on a summer night with a bunch of us at my parents doing windowpane.In fact it might have been the night Foss made the brownies and I followed him around the house straightening out the carpets he was kicking up.At some point some of us went out to the Cottage Hotel in Hyldahls dads two week old T-Bird.He,Kiv,myself and Teg Jones who was tripping for the first time drove out there for some wacked reason and stayed about half an hour before it became too strange.(Wildman may have been along also) We piled back in the car and headed back towards my parents.All of us were tripping except Hyldahl who had eaten a bunch of Codeine.Somehow we wound up on Van VorHees(sp) Road where you came down that long straight section and there was that wicked turn that had the big 15mph sign.As we headed down the straight section all of us were yelling "Faster!Faster! and at one point we were doing 75mph.Tom hit the curve at a LOT more than 15mph the T-Bird went off the road and stuck in the hillside lawn on the right.We were at such an angle we all had to climb out the passenger window.After we were out Kiv had to remove a pound of herb from the trunk which we stashed across the road down a hill under some bushes.A short time later Monroe County Sheriff pulled up and called a tow truck.There were two cop cars there and they asked us what had happened.I don't recall what we said but one cop finally walked up to me and asked my friends name.I told him Teg Jones as he had freaked out and kept saying the next car around the corner was going to kill us.Then the cop said we were lucky no one was hurt and Teg blurts out"No we wern't drinking!" The tow truck hauled away the T-Bird which had a lot of bottom damage and the other police car left.The cop left told us to get in his car and all these guys jump in the back seat leaving me to sit up front.The cop asks us where he should drop us off and all these guys in the back seat say my house.By this time it was around 1:30 a.m. and I'm thinking there are like 15 people tripping back at my parents house so I tell the cop to take us to Kivs .I reason that he had that 67 Impala fastback then and we can drive to my house from there.He asks me how to get there I tell him and off we go.So now the guys in back aren't making a peep.I'm in the front seat of a cruiser tripping my balls off watching the cool light show trying to make small talk when the cop says to me"I think you guys are doing something besides drinking tonight but you've been through enough so I'm not going to press it.I can almost here the backseat wetting their pants while I'm watching the trails from all the lights on his dashboard and thinking this is cool.He drops us at Kivs and Hyldahl walks off home.The rest of us get in the car go back and pick up the pot and head to my parents As we come up RRMills at around 2:15 we crest the hill and every light in our house is on.Speakers are out the living room windows with The Who on and in the driveway are my brother,Langer and a few others.Some of them are riding bikes in circles one my little brothers small bike and I think it was Lang standing there with the hose squirting them with water as they drove by grinning like a fool.I'm thanking my lucky stars the cop did not bring us here.At some point after Larry wound up going after Teg cause he told him Bob did not make it and Larry thought he meant Bob was dead.Thats why I think Bob might have been along but the whole later part my memory is blurry.At some point Foss put road signs in the front lawn which he did more than once.