As my older sister left the room, leaving her purse behind, I pounced on the opportunity to snatch her license. We look just alike so I knew it would pass for being me. I knew my sister would absolutely flip if she found out that I was the one who took her ID but I that didn’t matter.
I was the youngest of all my friends, so I wasn’t able to get into the bars and clubs. I had 6 months until my 21st birthday, it wouldn’t of killed me to just wait. The following weekend I hit the town with my friends. I put on my high heels and loaded on my make-up. I had no dought in my mind that the ID wouldn’t work, and to no surprise, it worked perfectly.
I had never experienced anything like it before. The music was jammin’, the dance floor was packed, and not a person in sight without a drink in their hand. It was everything I thought it would be and more. I was gonna live it up while I had the chance. “Drinks on me” was a reoccurring phrase I used.
We bar hopped all around the Bangor/Orono area. The Bear Brew was our last stop, the final hooray of the night. Thinking my ID would work, like it had all night, I walked in the doorway and was intently denied.
Bouncer: This isn’t you. Whats your date of birth?
Me: 12-2-87…(which is my sisters birthday)
Bouncer: Well I’m glad you know your sisters birthday because your gonna have to get her something good to make up for the fact you took her ID.
I stood there in aahhh. I was speechless.
Come to find out the next day, that the bouncer was my good friends with my sisters boyfriend.
So at the end of the night, I stumbles away without an ID, carrying my heels, and with no regrets.
Enjoyable read, but I'm not sure where week 12 comes in--you're writing about taking a risk in your barhopping, but week 12 is more about some sort of risk in the writing; I don't see this as either a risky topic or a risky way of writing.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what to do about this weeks theme. I dont get how to write risky. I dont even know how to go about this theme or the prompts to go with it.
ReplyDeleteTake a look at what some former students have done. Take a look at vignettes that sort of float in space or linked vignettes that leave out connections. Look at your own week 11. You know you took a risk there, you know you were afraid I'd hate it--but you tried it, thank heaven, despite the risk, and I loved it. What else have you got to surprise yourself and me with?
ReplyDeleteThink about humor or exaggeration as possibilities too.
YOur week 11: Not that every risk will necessarily pay off, but when they do, the writing is better than ever.
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