HOUSE 77 Xmas EDITION

ok. so 2004 is off to a hillarious start. mattie, and jess, shannon and lucas, and me and jenn road into the new year on Born Slippy at Kingdom, then immediately after the countdown there was some hey yeah.

then the story just gets funny. after the bar. there was no chance we were gonna catch a cab, and we were waiting around outside. shortly after 3am some kid drove up and asked if we needed a ride, and lucas offered the guy $75 to get the 6 of us back to mississauga. so the kid says no problem. and we get going. he makes a short phone call to his mom that he'll be home in a bit cause he's making some quick cash driving some ppl back to sauga. then we jump on the on ramp to the QEW, and we see a ride check set up. about 50m in front of the RIDE program the kid stops and tells us to get out. i say "dude, that's gonna be way worse than whatever the cops will do if we just drive up and play it cool." apparently i was wrong. cause the cops were already suspicious since the driver had stopped early. the cop says "were you thinking about running?" and the driver says, i just have too many ppl in my car" and the cop says "have you been drinking?" and the kid says "no i was just working at the kingdom, not drinking, but these ppl probably were." Then the cop's like "what class is your license?" and the kid says "G2". right around there i think "oh fuck". not only does the kid only have a G2 but it's a temporary 12 hr one cause he lost his photo card. the cop says "you're gonna have to come with me back to the cruiser."

at this point we're already laughing. did i mention that mattie was in the trunk? well. anyway, the kid ratted mattie out and then told us all to get out of the car. the kid was gonna spend the night in jail and his car was going to be impounded for 90 days. and we were left on the side of the highway to find another ride back to sauga.

at this point it was about 3:30am. so we wandered back down the on ramp to a convience store and hung out there with about 25 other ppl who seemed to be just as stranded in burlington. somehow, miraculously shannon found a van cab that we managed to jump in and take home around 4am. which was nice, cause mattie and i were already planning on how we were gonna have to take public transit home around 6am.

so, after getting home around 4:40am the moral of the story occured to me. don't be stupid and offer a ride to 6 drunken ppl if you only have a G2 and it's New Years and you're right near a bar where there will obviously be a RIDE Program.

haha.. 2004 is awesome!