The dangers of being a testosterone charged teen.
First published – Sep 5 2007.
I chased the wrong tail so I was chased with a knife.
The perils of being a testosterone charged, pimple faced teen on a mission.
I‟ve got a fairly amusing story from back as a youngster I was fifteen I think.
I was still living at home it was that far back.
There was a cute chick that worked on the checkouts at woollies at Mawson a suburb near my original home suburb of Torrens.
So me and the lads would pass through there each night on our way home from the local basketball court to steal some lollies and have a perve.
She always noticed us and eventually came to a few of my notorious house parties held in the garage and backyard.
The first time she came by I was with another chick from school and she had a boyfriend this skitzo dude named Ben we all had heard of from stories featuring him ripping of dudes heads.lol
Ben was like 19 and like six foot three which to us skinny juveniles was like a monster.
So anyway the girl comes by again her name was Joy by the way.
So she comes around for one of my parties and it turns out her man has gone away to play rugby union somewhere and visit family so I decided to try my luck and ended up with success.
She threw a two night party the following weekend and we spent 50% of it in her parents bed.
So I saw this chick for a couple of weeks and then the monster returned and I disappeared thinking nothing of it.
So a few months goes by and Joy is all but forgotten and Im doing my thing.
Me and a few of the lads are walking through the Woden plaza one day a while later when we are stopped by this hectic group of men asking who is Dave Parsons?
These guys look pissed off and they demand we let them search our bags because we all said we new Dave but didn‟t know where he was at.
I thought I had a pretty big set of nuts at 15 but I wasn‟t saying a thing cause I knew it would just seal my fate and have me in a bad way real quickly.
All this aside my main worry as they grab my mates bags and then go for mine is that I don‟t know if I actually have any books in my bag or even if they have my name on them.
They go through my bag and hand it back slamming it in to my chest and telling me to tell Dave they know he is around the Woden and Tuggerenong area and they will find him!
The bag slam nearly knocks me down a small set of stairs Im standing near so Im thinking damn that was close as they head off and my heart rate returns to normal.
So we head off home and the other lads explain that the main guy that just came at us was Ben……Joys boyfriend!
Now I was used to having some pretty crazy older boyfriends and brothers on my tail but these guys and mainly Ben were a whole new ball game to me, it was even rumoured that this local stabbing that put a guy in intensive care was Ben drunk one night!
I had like a shifty mode I would go into when the older boyfriends and what not were after me.
I would all ways have one of the boys walk a bit ahead to keep a look out for me or I would get off a bus a stop early and come up on the plaza up a side way, all ways on the lookout and packing a pocket knife for emergency‟s.(a practice that got me in as much trouble as it did save me while I was a kid).
A few times I came out the side entrance at school after class and would spot Ben and co scoping the front of the school.
I was sneaking through some flats and back through to Torrens or a swerving to a mates place in the near by suburbs.
This all may sound pretty annoying but I spent half my real young years in this mode.lol
A few other times I would see Ben at my local shopping complex at Mawson walking through the spots I hung out, he even once came up and as I spotted him.
I ran down a side alley and hit the underground drains that lead all the way to the suburb next to mine but still out on to my street, all the way underground.
Then one morning I was going about my business on the escalator at Woden plaza on my way up to the top floor.
I look at the people going down the other way and I see Joy!
Looking next to her straight away and yes Ben is there too!
I tried to look the other way but it was too late, she saw me, so did Ben.
He looked both aggressive and happy pointing to me and screaming out obscenities once she told him I was there.
He still had to go down the escalator though and I was going up so once the escalator got me to the top I started walking as fast as I could without running lol.
I looked back and he was coming up the escalator, I had one chance, my Mums boyfriend Steve was the manager of a tavern just outside the back of the plaza which wasn‟t to far away.
I kept my quick pace up and Ben wanting to catch me outside didn‟t run himself either, he stayed a little behind me gaining ground rapidly.
I walked through the sliding back entrance of the plaza and jogged down the stairs.
Seeing Steve out the front of the tavern I jogged over!
Thanking my lucky stars I just got to him as Ben comes cursing over brandishing a knife.
Steve just heads straight at him.
Ben stops the advance and just calls out Im curse, curse, dead, curse, curse.
I hung out at the tavern for a while then cruised home, I never actually saw Ben again which was weird.
I stayed on alert mode for a month or so but when he didn‟t show at any of my spots I went back to normal.
Gotta thank Steve on that one lol.Close call!