at a huge festival many years ago. seven of us, all 15-16yo guys, were sitting around my friend's car on the first night of the festival. we had spent the day wandering the expansive Shakedown and stocking up on drugs. now it was late night and we were all tripping way too hard. all around us was a chaos of drunkenness, screaming, fireworks, motorcycles. i kept completely forgetting we were even at a festival.
the vibes seemed to get more and more dark. there were bike gangs and groups of big rednecks running around and just a generally menacing scene. at some point we thought we were witnessing a confrontation right in front of us between two drunks. one of my group - a guy we all kind of disliked, and who had never tripped before - yelled "shit, that guy's got a knife! he's stabbing someone!"
i don't think there was ever a knife involved but it didn't matter at that point. we all believed it. for some reason we all jumped in the car at the same time (one of those old big "boat" station wagons), so that we all were piled on top of each other in the front and back seats, with arms and legs tangled up, a couple of guys were even upside down. everybody was talking and yelling at the same time, and the kid who originally "saw" the knife was screaming REALLY LOUD like a girl! i can't really describe what that felt like. it seemed to go on forever - just utter confusion. for a moment i thought we were in one of those driver's education car crash movies.
then suddenly there was a long silence as if we all realized simultaneously that there wasn't really any danger. my bro and i started laughing, and soon we were all laughing hysterically, still piled and tangled up like that.
with all the yelling, we had attracted a crowd. we couldn't even figure out how to get out. someone finally opened the passenger side doors from the outside and we all began spilling out of the car onto the ground like psychedelic clowns, with about thirty people standing in a circle silently watching us like "WTF?"
pretty awkward moment, i must say.