Before I went to the UASC camp I had been selected with one of my
friends to be the two representatives from our school to go to a
armed forces wine-and-dine camp called Freedom Academy. The idea was
that they would try and lure the best and brightest into the officer
schools for any of the armed forces. The point is that it started the
Sunday morning after the Saturday finish of UASC and that Saturday I
was driving up to a town an hour north to have my date with the girl
I had a crush on from UASC that meant I would be cutting in very
close. She had asked me to bring up a friend for a double date so I
called a kid I knew who was tall, blonde and strapping and asked him
to do me a solid and go on a date with an unknown but allegedly cute
girl. With pictures or everyone available in seconds nowadays blind
dates are much less blind but back then it was a real gamble but the
dude came through and took the risk. When we arrived he was glad he
had because the girl was a solid eight and a half that had dolled up
to a temporary nine and that is not a bad sign. We went out to
dinner, then to the mall and finally out to a park. My date had been
close and cuddly all night and it looked like my friend was coming
along nicely as well so when we went to the park we wandered apart
from each other to try on our kissy faces. My date was a gentle and
clean kisser which was very nice we made out a bit and then she
wondered where her friend was and if she was okay. We found the two
non-lovebirds sitting and talking on the playground equipment and
asked her friend what time it was. She informed us that it was
currently two in the AM. That was surprising and unwelcome news
because I was supposed to have my girl home by midnight and I was
supposed to report to military camp at 7 AM and I still had an hour
to drive home and an hour to camp and pack my gear sometime in that
time. We hustled up and got the girlfriend dropped off and then I
took my date home where her dad was waiting for her so I didn't get a
good night kiss. He was really mad so I apologized to him for my poor
timing on curfew. I thought I could just hustle home get my stuff and
show up to camp in time if I skipped sleeping. Not sleeping seemed
like a reasonable plan at the time and I thought I was in the clear
but I would find out about a very weird coincidence in about four
hours.
