Still living in the past

I paid the fine for this ticket almost exactly 21 years ago. I was 16 and had 11 bottles of rum and vodka under the seat of the VW bug I was passengering in and my buddy who was driving was a little on the drunk side. High school had its moments.

Usually the cops would just call the folks and/or take us home, but this time we were off our turf and in another jurisdiction -- not to make it sound like The Outsiders (and we certainly weren't the greasers or the socs [only saw the movie but the wiki gods tell me that's how Hinton spelled it] though after a poorly thought-out hair bleaching several years ago, my wife began to refer to me as pony-boy).... where was I? ... right, so we were in the next town so we got ticketed. Fortunately my mom wasn't home for the call, and I got a ride home with my friend's parents; also fortunately I had a job and was able to pay the at-the-time-huge sum of $118 out of my own pocket; but unfortunately (as you can see) I have tendancy to keep souvenirs and my mom found it on my desk a month or so later. Of course, it's something much easier to explain (lie about) after the fact.