So, as Sean tells it . . . (big inhale here--brace yourselves), he was out with his AP English buddies (read: brainiacs), filming a version of Chaucer's Cantebury Tales, of all things. Sean's car has a belt problem. When the weather turns cold the car makes an earsplitting screech which is loud enough to rip your ear drums right out of the sides of your head. Anyway, during the filming of the movie, a woman who is apparently so high strung she could be a stand-in for Richard Simmons runs out of her house demanding to know if Sean and his gang have been speeding up and down her street. (See, the screeching fan belt sounds amazingly similar to a car pealing out in order to show some machismo.) But, no, none of that was happening. The speed limit was being obeyed, and the only law being broken was Sean's passenger standing up in the topless convertible hanging on to the front windshield for dear life as he screamed "I'm king of the world!" (Not really, I added that part about the king. But he really was doing the impersonation of a ship's masthead thingy.)
The next thing the boys see is an unmarked police car pulling up behind Sean's car. Wouldn't you just know it--the complaining Richard Simmons/woman is married to a cop! More cops are called and records are checked. Sean tries to frantically wipe off the dayglo pink lipstick he is wearing for his part as "the wife" in the movie before the cop has time to come up to his window and wonder why his gender on his driver's license doesn't match the person he is shaking his night stick at. Meanwhile, one of his buddies is asked by another cop, "Uh, why do you have all those guns?" Oops. Well, the guns were actually little pink and blue fake guns, but to someone who wields a big shiny gold star on his chest, IT IS NOT FUNNY BUSTER! Apparently teenagers waving guns in the air while riding in a motor vehicle is not acceptable behavior in this particular city.
Fortune smiled on the boys when a sherrif pulled up and recognized one member of the gang as a kid in his neighborhood. This boy must have kept his nose clean and didn't ever T.P.
this guy's house because the sherrif vouched for him and got the other cops to climb down from their high horses, put their tasers and their handcuffs away, and let the kids go with only an obligatory lecture. And the boys listened. Because they were scared out of their minds.
And so the moral of the story is reading Chaucer can actually get you in a big ol' heap of trouble!
The next thing the boys see is an unmarked police car pulling up behind Sean's car. Wouldn't you just know it--the complaining Richard Simmons/woman is married to a cop! More cops are called and records are checked. Sean tries to frantically wipe off the dayglo pink lipstick he is wearing for his part as "the wife" in the movie before the cop has time to come up to his window and wonder why his gender on his driver's license doesn't match the person he is shaking his night stick at. Meanwhile, one of his buddies is asked by another cop, "Uh, why do you have all those guns?" Oops. Well, the guns were actually little pink and blue fake guns, but to someone who wields a big shiny gold star on his chest, IT IS NOT FUNNY BUSTER! Apparently teenagers waving guns in the air while riding in a motor vehicle is not acceptable behavior in this particular city.
Fortune smiled on the boys when a sherrif pulled up and recognized one member of the gang as a kid in his neighborhood. This boy must have kept his nose clean and didn't ever T.P.
this guy's house because the sherrif vouched for him and got the other cops to climb down from their high horses, put their tasers and their handcuffs away, and let the kids go with only an obligatory lecture. And the boys listened. Because they were scared out of their minds.
And so the moral of the story is reading Chaucer can actually get you in a big ol' heap of trouble!
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