One of my friends that had been a neighbor we did battle with when we
lived in the mobile home park was in a lot of my math, physics, and
drafting classes so sometimes we ended up hanging out outside of
school just because. One of those days that we ended up hanging out
we were up in Salt Lake doing some errands that could only happen in
the big city and we had spent the day antagonizing truckers and
others on my friend's CB radio. We were making fun of their lack of
education, their funny accents, and most irritating - we were
implying that they may participate in homosexual activities while at
rest stops and in parking lots. We were having a great time with the
anonymity of the whole situation and making fun of adults felt
empowering. There were guys threatening our lives and promising to
teach us a lesson but we were feeling safe and free and easy because
they would never find us. Then the roof caved in. We were at a stop
light making our rude comments and innuendos when a trucker broke in
and said he saw the little fagots that were talking all the crap and
they were in a yellow car. As it happened we were in a yellow car. We
looked across the intersection and in a surreal moment of fear we saw
his mouth move a few seconds before the sound came over the radio. He
was telling the other truckers our location and out license plate
number. In that moment it seemed very probable that we may just be
taught a lesson in the form of a beating after all. We hauled off as
quickly as the law would permit and headed through a series of CB
hillbilly hell-raisers evasion maneuvers and then parked on a side
road out of the flow of traffic. We holed up and listened to the
trucker scuttlebutt for a bit tot see if they were still onto us.
They seemed to think they were on to us still but they were all in
the wrong part of town so we made our way to the freeway and sped
back home as fast as the little yellow car could go. We were not
beaten to death and we did not learn our lesson because when we were
back to safety we started right back in on the harassment.
