Thursday, November 09, 2006
{ 10:29 PM }
I had been planning this for almost a year.I had two tickets to the Rolling Stones concert at The Pond. I had slept overnight at the box-office and tickets were sold out in the first hour. I was one of the few at our school who were lucky enough to get a pair of tickets. And they had cost a full month's allowance.It was my first date with Karen, the head cheerleader and the most popular girl at the school. I have had a crush on her since the sixth grade.Dad gave me the keys to his new Catera. He had never allowed me to drive it before. Nothing could go wrong. This would be the perfect evening and hopefully the start of a long relationship.When I was about to leave, my mother called me. She had just received a frantic call from my older sister, Linda. Her car had stalled on the freeway and she was late for work.I would have to go pick her up, take her to work, and then see that her car was towed to the nearest garage. I would have to cancel my date.I immediately refused telling her it was impossible for me to do that.My mother was irate. "Don't you have any sense of responsibility, "she asked."It's not that," I answered. "I just can't be a brother and assist her, too."
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