For this blog post we had to interpret and annotate the podcast What You Don't Know (Lulu Wang). Here is the story transcript. Here is Lulu Wang's website. I used this helpful information to create a scene from a moment in my past that shows a decision I had made that negatively impacted my life.
Throughout my life I have made many decisions both good and bad. The only decision that has had the most impact on my life was when I was 17 years old and I decided it would be a good idea to smoke pot with three of my other friends while driving in my car one night. I choose this event because not only did this event impact me tremendously but it also effected my parents due to the fact that I was still under the age and my parents were still responsible for the actions that I made.In my story of this event you will see how I made the bad decision, what happened because of that bad decision and how it changed my life after. I was sitting in my bedroom one afternoon on April 10, 2017 watching TV and then "DING" a loud notification that my phone gave off had suddenly shifted my attention from my TV to my messages. I picked up my phone and saw that my friend Mike had texted me asking if I wanted to hangout with him along with my other friends Bailey and Chase. I of course said "yes" after I had replied to his message he immediately answer back with "would you like to smoke with us?". At the time when I was 17 I was young and reckless more than I am now so I was smoking weed everyday all day during this time in my life so when my friend's asked me if I wanted to smoke pot.... I certainly wanted to! and i'm not ashamed in admitting that because all my friends were smoking it so I was smoking it. At the time I never really thought about the decision's that I was making and how those decision's could impact me and others. Now that i'm older I know what is not stupid and what is not worth the trouble. After I had answered Mike back and told him that I wanted to smoke he rushed right to the game plan. Mike was going to come over to my house and Bailey and Chase would meet us at my house and then we would figure out where we all wanted to smoke at. I started getting ready before they got here I put on my black yoga pants my favorite red hoodie and flip flops I was comfortable and ready to hangout with my friends.Mike arrived less then 20 minutes after I had finished getting ready he had already had the weed and the blunt(wrap) that we would use to smoke,the only thing that we were waiting on was for Chase and Bailey to get to my house. Me and Mike already were trying to come up with a spot where we could all smoke.We couldn't smoke at my house because my parents were home so I just said "lets go on a blunt ride" Mike didn't have a problem with that option so that was where we would be smoking in my car.Chase and Bailey pulled up in front of my house and since me and Mike were already outside waiting for them as soon as they got out of their car we hopped in my car and began our blunt ride. I don't know what made me want to smoke in my car that day but sometimes I wonder how different things could have been if we decided to smoke in Chase and Baileys car. Mike was rolling up the blunt in the passenger seat while I was driving and Bailey and Chase were just sitting in the backseat waiting to smoke. We crossed through Brookhaven into Aston then driving in to upper providence,Mike had already lit the blunt at this point and we were already smoking as I was driving around. I remember on the radio my favorite song at the time came on "Fake love"by Drake, I was jamming singing every word to the song I was loving life and then it all came crashing down to the sound of police sirens. I looked in my rear-view mirror and my eyes bulged out of my eye sockets, yes the cop was indeed pulling me over and at that very moment I almost shit myself. My heart started fluttering beating like a drum, my stomach started twisting into not's I knew I was in deep shit I knew there was no running away from what was about to happen to me. As I was pulling over to the side of the road with the cop right up behind me I tired to tell my friends to spray something anything that could help cover up the smell that we had created but it was to late the cop was already getting out of his car and starting to walk towards my driver side window where I would have to roll down my window. As the cop approached my window I slowly rolled it down, he asked for license and registration so I reached into my glove compartment thinking maybe i'll be able to get away with this but as I turned my attention back to the officer to hand him my information he jumped right to the big question "where is the weed at?". My heart dropped, I had told him that I did not have weed in my car. We didn't have any weed because we had smoked it all on our ride...so I thought. After I answered the cop he told me and my three friends to get out of the car so that he could search it. A moment later a second cop pulled up and got out of her car, I was pulled away from my friends being questioned by one cop while they were sitting on the curb next to my car watching the other cop scramble through my things in my car looking in compartments,under my seat, between my seat and on the car floor. The officer that was questioning me then called my parents and that is what really made me realize that what was happening was all real and when my parents pick up the phone I knew that their hearts would break. I never thought in a million years that my parents would get a call that I am being arrested my heart broke in to a million shards I hated myself and I couldn't believe that I put myself into a position like this. My parents picked up the phone and the cop broke the news to them I could hear my mothers voice in shock she couldn't believe what she was hearing, the cop then told them where we were at and told them to come get my car or it would be towed away so my parents were on their way to this disaster. As the cop gets off the phone with my parents I then see the other cop walking towards me from my car and in her hand she was carrying the bag that was used to put the weed in and then I noticed that she had a bag with actual weed in it. My mind was puzzled, how could she have found weed in my car? As she got closer she then said "look what I found on the floor in your backseat". I was fucked. The cops then made all my friends call their parents to come pick them up so I thought that I would be going home with my parents when they got here but that wasn't the case.I wouldn't be going home with my parents, I would be going into the cop car. My parents pulled up and then shortly after my friends ride's pulled up and they were free to go just like that.My parents were then told by the cop that they would be taking me to the police station where they would be able to then pick me up.At the exact moment my body was fully in the cop car I then told myself that I would never ever put myself in a situation that could lead me to going through this again or anything similar because that is just not the person that I want to be. As I pulled up to the police station I saw that my parents were already there and waiting for me.The cop helped me out of the car and then walked me into the police office as my parents followed us. The sickening look set on my parents face was enough to make me want to run and hide but I knew that I couldn't I would have to face the consequences set ahead of me.The cop then handed over my fine to them and all of the paper work that came along with it. The feeling that was weighing me down was unbearable I hated myself for what I had put my parents through, I let them down the only people that truly cared for me. As my parents rounded up all of the information that they would need to move forward from this situation I started walking towards my parents car.I got in the car and just let my body sink into the seat as I just relaxed all the muscles in my body and then I looked at myself in my moms car mirror and I just saw this disappointment,I then rested my head upon the car door looking out the window to the police station that I never wanted to find myself at again in my entire life. My parents then got in the car and then I hear my moms sweet gentle voice go "alright now lets take her home", I started to think about what she just said and what if she was not able to say those words because I wasn't able to go home with them. What had happened that day was enough to make me change my ways as we drove off I promised myself I would never be back to that place again.
5 Comments
9/30/2018 01:50:35 pm
The scene when you were pulled over by the cop was very scary to me and I was very worried and unsure what would happen. It sounds like everything worked out okay. I would have been too nervous in your situation.
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Sabatino
9/30/2018 04:03:01 pm
Is this a continuation of the “secret” you shared with us? If so, the story is developing. This post provides ample material for us to relive the moment with you. Will you write about this for your formal project? I ask because this reads like a first draft — which means your process is moving a bit closer to a final product.
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Troy Bergado
10/1/2018 03:52:02 pm
It's interesting that you include your present thoughts within the story. Shows how you've grown.
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Nijhee
10/1/2018 05:33:35 pm
I'm glad you shared your full story on what happened that night and how it changed your life
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10/1/2018 06:15:51 pm
At least you learned from this experience, and I'm glad that nobody got hurt.
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