Franz Ferdinand's Do You Want To is playing now.  Well, do ya?  

I don't know what made me think about this today, but while I was on my first break at work I thought back to the old high school parking lot.  It was big and open and when I thought of it, I had these great memories of doing doughnuts and fishtailing before and after away swim meets.  

When we would get home, it would be twelve or one o'clock in the morning and the parking lot would be empty.  After a three or four or five hour bus trip with some close friends, even that early in the morning, I would be wound up.  Just giddy I guess.  So I would jump in the truck (my beloved first vehichle) and just go spin on the ice in the empty parking lot with no care in the world.  There were not a lot of light posts, so I didn't have to worry running into them.

The other thought I have on this is getting in my best friend's truck before leaving and having a great laugh doing doughnuts.  He had this huge lead weight in the bed of the truck to help prevent fishtailing, and it was sliding from left to right banging the hell out of the truck.  And on top of that, another swimmer jumped in his mom's little sedan and was doing them in reverse.  Writing it down now even brings a smile to my face.  

good times, good times.