June 18, 2007
Trick Question
The second revelation…
2. When I was 17, I had a party while my parents were on vacation and I only got busted because my little brother was snooping in my room and found a half-empty bottle of Jack Daniels under the bed.
This is half-true and half-false, so if you answered either way, you are still right.
My parents and my younger siblings went on vacation to South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore and the Corn Palace, the summer of 1996. I had to stay behind and keep an eye on my father’s business.
He is a tavern owner and my job was to clean the bar and stock the coolers, as well as handle the money, deposits and cash register balancing. It was a big responsibilty, one that my father had entrusted me with many times before.
On this occasion I decided to have a drinking party with a few friends. Nothing big. Just 4 of my best girl pals and 3 guy friends. Little did I know that my “friends” would bring their “friends” and before I knew it, there were 15 people in my house drinking my parents beer, after they drank all of the stuff they brought of course.
After the party was over, I did my best to clean the house, restock the Miller Lite my parents would definitely know was missing and hide any leftover bottles of Jack Daniels under the bed.
I thought I got away with everything. My family came home and my parents were astonished to see the house was much cleaner than when they left.
It wasn’t more than twenty minutes after their arrival that our neighbor across the street came over and told my dad that someone has driven through their yard the night before. Our neighbor’s house was on the corner, so it was very possible that someone missed the road and drove into their lawn.
I was busted. My father demanded the truth and I told him everything. The disappointment on his face was too much to bear. I broke down and cried, begged for forgiveness and to my surprise he said, “If you wanted to have a party, all you had to do was ask.”
“What?” I said, wiping tears away.
“We would have allowed you to have a party if we were home, as long as the other kids’ parents were aware and gave permission….so that we could have designated drivers or people stay overnight.”
My little brother, who was only five years old, came out of my room with a bottle of Jack Daniels as my dad was talking to me. My father was more surprised when he saw that.
“Hard liquor?” he asked. “I thought this was just a beer party? Kids these days are hardcore it seems.”
I was grounded for two months, basically the rest of the summer, couldn’t go anywhere without permission and was not allowed to drive my car for two weeks. It was torture. I learned a very valuable lesson: have parties at other kids’ houses!
So, technically the neighbor busted me, but my brother did find that bottle of booze. Karen, Nadine and Leslie, you are all correct!
There’s still time to play! You can answer questions 3 thru 10 in the comments and send me your link if you’re playing this game on your blog!
Posted by Dana @ 9:38 AM • Dana 101
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June 19th, 2007 at 12:08 AM, Leslie Says:
Ah, stinkin’ neighbors.
June 19th, 2007 at 8:22 AM, Elizabeth Says:
Dana, you are not going to believe this coincidence-when I was a Senior, my parents went to Indiana to visit my sister at college and left me home alone for the weekend. So, I of course had a party. It was just my closest friends, about twelve of us all together, and there was lots of drinking, but I never thought my parents would find out.
Until they got home, and I found out that during the party, my BEST FRIEND had taken my Mom’s car keys and DRIVEN MY MOM’S CAR while drunk, down to her house which was about six houses away. Her Mom had of course NOTICED that she was both drunk and driving my Mom’s car, so of course her Mom called my Mom.
I lost my driver’s license for two months over that one, and I almost didn’t get to go to my prom. But I had gotten to make out with Jesse Ochberg, so that pretty much made it all worthwhile
June 19th, 2007 at 9:00 AM, Dana Says:
Haha! Elizabeth! That is funny and definitely a coincidence!!