I
am not sure who introduced me to the pastime, or even sport of peeing
of overpasses but that guy was truly a pioneer and innovator. In our
rural community there were several overpasses that went over the
freeway but were on dark and distant roads which offered the magical
mix of exposure and anonymity. The game goes like this: you and some
bored friends get some big drinks 32, 44 even 64 oz if you are a pro.
Then you drink, drinking makes you need to urinate and then you must
get to the starting line which is a turn down a dark nearly abandoned
rode out to an unlit and secluded viaduct. Then you start to laugh
because it is actually really funny to think of even before you
start. Finally, you line up, pinched off and primed and ready to go
and wait for a car or truck or if the gods of little boy mischief be
really good, a jeep or convertible. You time it, line it up and let
fly. It sounds crude and that is because it is but it is unbelievably
entertaining and one of the funniest sounds in the world. Every once
in a while someone who had driven under the overpass and was
victimized would pull over and yell some threats and curses. We could
laugh at them and do so as we pleased because the shortest route back
to where we were standing, by road ,was at least ten or fifteen
minutes and there was plenty of time to disappear into the winding
roads through the fields and orchards. We went and did this probably
twenty times or so inviting and initiating other younger boys and in
one magical experience a girl who required her hands to be held as
she sat over the edge so that she could have a piece of the comedy
action. It was hilarious but not an ideal safety situation. In a
perfect bookend to my overpass peeing journey when I was in college
and up for a visit I was driving in the car with my best friend going
home just riding and talking and as we drove under the overpass we
were assaulted with a twin stream of comedy gold that ran right up
and over the car and sent us into paroxysms of laughter. It was even
funny from the victims perspective and that is not often the case in
pranks. Not often at all.
