So, it was the 7th grade, I was getting made fun of by the emo kids n shit back then. bad year. I hear from my best friend about how to make an "M-80" he told me how to make it, I wont post that on here it's prob a violation of site rules LOL. So I talk to my other best friend, the homie for life guy. So he goes and steals the appropriate fireworks and other supplies from his bros secret shoebox under the bed. CLASSIC. We set that shit up, and book it to my backyard, right? I'm like, "I will light it, and you will throw it away from us so as we don't get blowed up aight?" "ok I get it" he says. I guess he didn't get my drift so much. He's all way athletic and has a good throwing arm. Me not so much. He throws it way further than I expected, into the very dry weeds behind the neighbors house, rather than the dirt ten feet in front of us.
*OH MY FUCKING HOLY SHIT* the brush catches on fire, we go into total panic mode, we're in deep shit and we know it. First, we run into the brush to try and stomp that blaze out. we both get burned and fail. We start up my hose next door to try and douse it out, he's handing me those garden buckets with too many holes in the top designed to drain water out, so it holds no water. I try and tell him that, he's too freaked to understand, makes me take it over there. Fire truck shows up, we have the blaze out with the neighbors hose before they get there. All I remember after that is this asshole with a super twitchy mustache, bitchin' me out while he wears his sunglasses. Takes the glasses off and it just gets freaky again. They don't arrest us, but we had to pay $500 fines EACH and at 7th grade, raised WAY mormon and never been in trouble before, showing up before a judge is scary as all hell. My mom was so disappointed in me I thought she didn't love me anymore.
AND THAT was the first day of my life I began to hate police, authority, rules, and law. That day was the axis of the rest of my life. That was the day I began to question everything. Most scared I have ever been. Most scared of the legal system I have ever been.