Alright, lots of driving stories. Here’s a Mexico spring break story.
16 years old, Honda Prelude, fake ID, little to no money, like a hundred bucks each. 1994
The players:
me - outside line backer
AC - inside line backer
Carr - corner back
Johnathan -safety.
We decide to go to Matamores and Padre for some MTV style fun.
But there’s no way any of our parents are going to let us go. So we make up some BS about staying with someone’s mom at their vacation house.
We make a one hour appearance at said moms house in Galveston to call home and let our folks know we’re alive. This was not our destination.
We get to Padre and hit the beach and fight or fuck whatever showed up in front of us. Still no where to stay.
We sleep four deep in my Prelude near the beach. (There’s more to this that includes a fist fight between me and Carr)
We wake up and do a Mexican shower in a McDonalds bathroom.
More beach day. We finally and randomly find one of our cheerleaders who’s mom actually did have a beach house. (We didn’t know this ahead of time). We get some real food and a night in beds.
Alright, so now it’s time to venture across the border, but here’s the kicker. Cheer chick insists on coming with us and bringing her little sister and her friend.
Sister and friend were 13. (No touchy no rapey)
So we roll 8 deep in my Prelude to Brownsville. Everyone is drinking and throwing beer cans out of the windows and sunroof.
Suprise! We get pulled over by highway patrol, so I pull over at a gas station because everyone has to pee. Kids exit like a clown car and I get a field sobriety test. Friends are reading havoc inside the store.
Somehow the cop let us all load back up and keep heading South like we were about to be Mexico’s problem. Which we were.
To be continued…..