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03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 8:20 pm

crazy2medic wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:59 pm My mother taught me not to hang out with people that can get you in trouble!
So don't hang out with people that can get you SHOT!

This is great advice but not always easy to follow. I bet some of us can remember being young when somebody in our little band of merry men decided to do something stupid. Now 45 years ago the thought of that something stupid rising to the level of getting me shot never crossed my mind. I would be willing to bet there are times when a group of youths are all doing just fine when that one off person in the group suddenly does something stupid that the others are not planning for or even in favor of. Meanwhile, there you are with a bullet hole in your chest and the idiot you were hanging with caused it by doing something stupid you never expected them to do.

Many many moons ago, when I was in High School, I was cruising around town with a buddy and an acquaintance. We were pulled over by a Highway Patrolman. I don't recall why we were pulled over, but being teen aged boys, we were probably doing something stupid along the lines of spinning out or speeding. But the patrolman took the acquaintance aside. Apparently the acquaintance and the patrolman's nephew had gotten into a fist fight a few days before and the patrolman was reading the acquaintance the riot act. I could see the acquaintance balling up his fists as I watched in the rear view mirror. In his haste to get the acquaintance out of the car he had never asked me to turn the ignition off. I remember telling the friend that if he hit the patrolman, we were driving off and letting him deal with the repercussions of his stupidity on his own. As an adult, I can realize that was not the proper action to take... But as a kid, that was my way of not getting a bullet hole from someone else's stupidity.