From start to end, this weekend has been so amazing. Starting out with sushi from Mikko in Carlsbad with new amigo Jeremy, it proceeded to a night of camping and snagging a bon fire which lead to another day full of salty hips and body surfing. Lazying around the van we decide to do it all over again. And yet another night of camping on the beach followed the last. But the first night of camping.. ohh, ohhhhh, have i got a story for you.
So we decided to take what warmth an abandoned campfire had left for us. Our neighbors were slightly disrespectful to the people who shared the beach. Setting off fire crackers, being obnoxiously drunk, breaking a few laws, etc.. So we chatted for a bit, and i noticed that a cop had parked across the parking lot. He was definitely trying to bust them. So we waited and talked and had good times, until they set a firework off extremely close to us. I thought it was going to hit us. Soon there after, we see the lights flashing and the cop begins driving over. Keep in mind, from the beginning to the end we are laughing at the hilarity of their stupidity. The group begins dousing the fire with their alcohol which emits a cloud of Jose Cuervo into the sky. The cop begins walking up to them with his headlights flashing on them. One of women realizes her cigarette is still in her hand so she throws it down and covers it with sand (Thanks for being the asshole that ruined it for all of the polite smokers). One of the drunkards was stumbling around so a few of them summoned her to sit down. "Tina sit down, just sit down", and sat her down on a cooler about 3 feet away from the fire. We are watching the police officer approach them when you hear a loud commotion that most likely wasn't suppose to transpire. Everyone turns around and stares at the fire pit they just "put out". I thought it was a fender. I thought that tina threw the fender or bumper into the fire. It was pretty dark out. After a few moments of silence and a croak from the fire pit, thats when they noticed that tina, through all the haze and smoke of Jose Cuervo, fell head first into the fire pit. She fell HEAD FIRST into the fire pit... Death nearly took me because of the laugher that i could not control. Her legs were FLAILING in the air. Lets just say it wasn't worth putting on eye liner before i left the house... and yes her legs were just flailing in the air. there were maybe 5 people standing around the pit, and only two (one in delay) realized what was going on. It was, "oh tina.. .. ... !", and then she was helped out. The cop walks over and in covering up her wastoidness, they stand her up lifelessly and say multiple times, "o she shes fine, shes fine". The cop flashes his light at her shoulder and yells, "NO SHES NOT. SHES STILL ON FIRE."... Like i said death nearly had me... Anyways, they put her out and the cop was so not stoked on life. Im sure he was completely as baffled as we were to have just witness such an event occur... and not even within 5 minutes. He could heave written them all tickets for all the laws they broke, but instead he responded with, "ALRIGHT, you guys need to clean up your mess and leave RIGHT NOW. And clean her wounds.." I wouldn't have know what in the world to do about their brainlessness either. Because of stupidity, these guys got off.
The memory of this event has come up scores of times and the jokes never get old. This night... i will never forget it.
A few last words: Its amazing the connections that are made between two strangers. What blows my mind is that when you look into someone's eyes, you will find yourself peering into either a puddle, or an ocean. There are by far, many more puddles than there are oceans. When you have found the ocean in a strangers eye, don't fight the rip tide. You can't always be afraid of what you cannot see.
-Nikole
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