We hit the road, and I rode with John. John thinks he is black, so he was
playing some “screwed” song that made me want to cut my ears off and throw them
out the window. By the way, our friend’s name was Ja-rell. I wish you could hear
him say it because there was such a pause between “Ja” and “rell” that I thought
it was his first and last name. After a ride of John trying to be cool, we
arrived at our destination.
This is when the whole night started to go wrong.
Ja-rell: Shit y’all, I don’t have any money, can y’all spot me sum?
Us: Uh, sorry man.
Ja-rell: Fuck y’all, I don’t need this shit,
I’ll sneak in!
Us: Yeah, whatever.
I thought this would be the last time we would see Ja-rell. I was actually
kind of sad, then I thought about the prospective vagina awaiting
us and my sadness faded into oblivion—a very dark, hairy
oblivion with the scent of lady parts masked by too much perfume and cigarette
smoke.
Ja-rell sauntered off into the darkness of the parking lot, and
our agenda turned to getting someone to smuggle our beer in for us
because we were all too young. There was a group of about four guys
sitting in the back of a pickup drinking beer, and I, being drunk
and bold, decided to approach them.
Me: Hey man (hiccup) wil yoo bring this en for (hiccup) us??
Guy: Uh, what’s in it for us?
Me: Yoo can hav som (hickup) of our
beerz.
Guy: Okay.
I think this guy thought that “some” of our beers meant “all” of them because
when we approached him in the club he denied having any of them. We
weren’t really in a position to argue though, as the large X’s on our hands
indicated. As the vagina-smoke mixture filled my lungs, the hairs on my arms
rose. We had encountered a few snags, but now we were finally here. Paradise.
I have never seen such a collection of sexed out, scarred, and weather worn
strippers in my life. The ones who didn’t have bruises, had scars. The ones who
didn’t have scars, probably had
10 different kinds of AIDS. One of them had such a potbelly, I thought a
heaping pile of babies would spill onto the dance floor while she was making the
rounds. Most of their vaginas looked like they were pieced together from various
other vaginas. Non-human vaginas. ANYWHO, we were not going to let these
under-bit dick puppets ruin our adventure. We parked into a circle of four
chairs and let the good times roll.
One stripper came right over and sat in my lap. I told her I didn’t have any
money, but that was just code for “I don’t want scabies.” She took a hike and
ventured to Dawson’s lap. The last time a girl came that close to Dawson’s lap,
his mom was bending him over her knee and giving him a spanking, so naturally,
he did not complain. I scanned the room for any attractive women whilst the
stripper coaxed Dawson into a lap dance. Even though Dawson’s stripper had
fallen off the ugly tree, I was willing to look past the armpit stubble and
crack sores to see her for what she was: a naked chick. She wasted no time in
getting naked, and did the usual lap dance routine: ass in face, titty shake on
head, vaginal exposition, ass in face. But, on the second time around for the
ass shake, she held it for a little bit longer, and Dawson’s face turned from
one of ecstasy to one of horror. He didn’t say anything though, and let her
finish the dance while he stared into oblivion. He handed her the twenty
dollars, and she got her shit and left.
Me: Dawson, what the fuck happened?!
Dawson: I’m not sure… I
don’t really know.
Me: What? You have to know, out with it!
Dawson: …She opened her butthole at me.
Everyone:
AHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHA!!!!
Dawson (still stunned): It looked like it was
breathing, man…
Our good friend had not yet encountered a flaring butthole. This was his
first time to a titty bar so he was not accustomed to stripper mating calls. We
calmed down, and the reality set in that we needed beer, and lots of it, to
salvage this night. We scouted the nearest victim. A middle-aged balding man
with glasses and an ice cold bucket of beer to his right. He was distracted by
the Jello wrestling in the middle of the club, so it was pretty easy to steal
the beer. At one point, someone dropped a beer, and the familiar *clank* sound
echoed. The guy looked back to see four smiling faces, all holding beers, then
looked down at his own bucket to find it almost empty. I’m sure he considered
saying something, but what would one old fat man do against four drunk
18-year-olds? He turned back around and put the bucket in his lap. That fucking
coward.
We all got a lap dance or two, and were actually having a pretty good time.
Strangely enough, the women even got more attractive. Weird how alcohol does
that. Then, without any fucking warning at all, Ja-rell plops down onto a
chair next us.
Us: Holy shit! It’s Ja-rell, what the fuck?!? How’d you get in?!
Ja-rell: Y’all shut the fuck up, we have to go. NOW.
Me: What? You
just got here!
Ja-rell: NOW.
We all looked at each other and came to the consensus that we didn’t want to
aid a fucking criminal, so we left. I prayed that Ja-rell would not get in our
car, because all I wanted to do was get to the hotel room, jerk off, and go to
sleep. I don’t feel the need to explain it, but after about an hour of debating,
John and I ended up taking Ja-rell home.
Ja-rell was fucking pissed. Between him bitching in the back seat, and John
playing the music way too loud, I was irate. I decided it would be a good idea
to tell Ja-rell how much of a burden he had been all night, and that no one
liked him. Funny how alcohol contributes to these situations.
Now, Ja-rell had said that he lived in South Austin, so we kept asking him
which streets to turn down. But he would not answer, and continued to just tell
us to turn left or right. This was very disconcerting because parts of South
Austin are not exactly, well, fucking livable. I had never really been to the
ghetto, and this blind left-right game into the side streets, along with a
potentially dangerous man we had never met before in our back seat, made me a
little paranoid. Just to be safe, I took all of my shit, (phone, wallet, etc.),
and stuffed them under the front seat—a pretty coherent move at the time, now
that I think about it, considering how sloppy I was. We pulled up to a light and
sat there for a couple of minutes and everything was very quiet. The music was
off, and nobody said a word. I was on edge, but decided to speak up politely.
Me: Hey man, we’ve all had a long night, can you just get out here and
walk?
Ja-rell: No. Fuck you. Keep driving.
Me: OKAY, THAT’S
IT!! GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE CAR YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!
I jumped out of the front seat and grabbed Ja-rell’s shirt and tried pulling
him out. John was yelling something, but I could not understand it. This is when
I see Ja-rell, still in the car, reach in his back pocket and grab something
long and silver that shimmered in the light. It could have been a fucking
toothbrush holder, or it could have been a gun, but I wasn’t going to stay
around long enough to find out which one. I ran my ass off down the street,
constantly looking back to see Ja-rell still chasing me. I heard what sounded
like a car crash, but kept running and hopping fences until I lost Ja-rell.
I sat in a backyard until I could catch my breath, then tried to assess the
situation. There I was, trapped in the fucking ghetto, drunk as shit, with no
clue where I could be. I reached into my pocket to get my cell phone so I could
call John. FUCK. I left my phone in John’s car.
My first instinct told me to head to the highway and walk east from there.
Or… fuck, was it west? My sense of direction was completely fucked up so I just
starting walking randomly. You know those moments when you feel completely
helpless and in no control of your destiny? This was one of those moments; I was
totally lost. I found my way to what seemed like a busy street and starting
jogging. I was so desperate I would have stopped a car and asked for directions,
but it was around 2:00 in the morning and everyone was either asleep or getting
robbed by guys like Ja-rell, so the streets were empty. I could have been
getting a butthole flared in my face at that moment, but instead, this.
I jogged for about another hour when I spotted a car dealership coming into
view. Holy shit, dealerships are always on the interstate! Never in my life had
I been so happy to see 1% APR financing on all pre-owned vehicles. I would have
bought them all. I ran through the lot, and low and behold, the nurturing bosom
of I-35 awaited my footsteps. I needed to go north, so I looked up at the signs
and got going. My sense of urgency was no longer pressing because I knew where
the hell I was—so I just walked. It was actually sort of nice outside.
Crackheads scampering, prostitutes sucking. I was listened to the sounds of the
city one comes to enjoy.
Well, about
three hours into my walk, my drunkenness started wearing off and it started
to get pretty muggy outside. I took my shirt off and slung it over my shoulders,
leaving only my cut-off undershirt on. I walked on the side of the frontage road
when a Chevy Blazer pulled by me very slowly. It was a man driving—a black man,
not as if that was very important. He continued creeping along and pulled onto a
side street about half a mile ahead of me. This was kind of unnerving, but there
was nothing I could really do about it.
I came up on the street where he turned and he was sitting in his car with
the lights off, engine still running. As soon as he saw me approach the street,
he flipped his lights back on and drove towards me. I was like a deer in
headlights and just stood there. Then, he rolled down his window and said
something.
Guy: Hey dawg.
Me: Ugh, hi.
Guy: You lookin’
pretty sexy there dawg.
Me: Huh, what the fuck?!
It was kind of hard to see him because of the headlights, but he was
definitely holding something. My first thought was “Oh shit, I hope he doesn’t
hit me with it and rape me.” Then I got a better look and… OH MY GOD. This dude
was PLEASURING HIMSELF. I instantly realized what was happening and freaked out.
I didn’t say anything, I just turned and ran. He said something, but I
couldn’t understand it. Again, I found myself hopping fences, but made sure I
knew where the interstate was. Did this just happen? Why me? I ran for what
seemed like an eternity. Invisible black wieners were chasing me, hitting me
over the head, causing me to run faster. Two hours later, I saw a familiar site.
It was the bridge that led to our hotel. I was so happy, but so fucking tired at
the same time. Again, I decided it was safe to walk. My feet felt like lead
weights and I’m sure my balls smelled something fierce. Then I could see it:
our hotel.

It stood magnificent, casting a shadow over the street from the newly risen
sun. I passed a bum on the street clutching a bottle of Tussin, mumbling
incoherently at me. I did not even look at him. I hate bums, and after almost
getting killed and raped, he was the last thing on my mind. I blindly floated
toward the hotel, its incandescent lighting and freshly pressed sheets a luxury
I was looking forward to. I ascended the elevator to the 4th floor and swayed
down the hallway, unable to grasp what had just happened to me, let alone how I
had made it back. I banged on the door and someone answered.
Someone: Mike? Wha… what the fuck? Where’d you come from? *Yawn*
Me: Out of my way.
I walked right past him, fell into the bed, and immediately went to sleep.
Wehn I woke up in the morning and told everyone what had happened, no one
fucking believed me. After all the trauma I had been through the previous night,
I was insulted. Well, their minds all changed when John entered the room looking
just as tired as I was. He confirmed everything, except when I was almost
impaled by the gentleman in the Blazer; he laughed his ass off at that.
Oh, and the accident I heard as I was running from Ja-rell? That was John. He
spun his car around to come after me and slammed right into a lamp post,
completely fucking up his car. By the time he got it running, Ja-rell and I
were long gone. He said he was going up and down the interstate looking for me
all morning, but I find that hard to believe because I was on it for at least
four hours. Fuck you, John.