First published – Feb 7 2007.
Back again,
I was talking to someone about superstitions and that I don‟t really have any but then I remembered one from when I was a kid that was pretty amusing so I figured I put it down in a blog.
I went to a high school in Canberra called "Melrose high" I guess it was your average size school, 700 or so students I think.
It was a co-ed school and was built right next door to an all guys catholic school called Marist brothers so as you can guess there was a fair bit of competition for the young ladies.
The problem for us was that our school only went to yr 10 while there school went all the way to yr 12 plus our school was smaller so we had a bit of an age, size and numbers disadvantage.
The action began with a young me, I was 15 and hooking up with a girl in my year named Anne who happened to be going out with a yr 12 from Marist named Kevin.
I knew who the guy was because I was a basketballer and this guy was the captain of the Marist side.
We had played against them and been beaten pretty badly in the past since they were like 18 year olds and we were 15 year olds.(winge winge..lol) Now it wasn‟t really that I hooked up with Anne that caused the drama it was more that I had written her a letter containing certain details and Kevin had found it in Anne‟s pocket after school.
So she rings me that night and warns me that Kevin has the letter.
When she rang I was eating a jar of lolllies but I put the lid on a put them away in my cupboard and that was the start of my superstition.
The next morning I get to school and a couple of dudes are with my mates waiting for me out front of the school.
I could tell they didn‟t go to our school straight away since they had street clothes on...and had five o‟clock shadows.
I walked over and they told me to meet Kevin just across the freeway from school straight after the bell rings and not to bring anyone else or I was a dead man.
Then they walked over to another mate of mine Todd, it turned out that he had been doing the same thing with Kevin‟s best mates girl too.
Jeez we were shifty bunch. Ha ha.
I had known about it but I didn‟t know he had been busted too until now.
I thought sweet at least theres two of us now..lol It was a pretty long day at school and when lunch time came around I found out that Todd had gone home sic, the cheeky bastard had bailed and hadn‟t even told me.
I can remember making the most of it all day.
What else could I do?
Dudes kept coming up to let me know they thought it was sic someone was taking on the Marist boys and I would be like yeah Im gonna kill this faggot but I was really thinking how am I gonna beat this dude he is like a grown man!
Motherfucker is going to beat me to a pulp.
So the day went on and as last period came around I could see Kevin and about twenty of his mates through the window walking across our oval toward the place he‟d demanded I meet up.
To make things worse one of the dudes he had with him was known to have a desert eagle hand gun.
I had no idea what a desert eagle even looked liked but I knew I didn‟t wanna see it in my face that‟s for sure. lol
Even though Kevin‟s mates had said not to tell anyone I pretty much told the whole school.
When 3.15 hit I met up with my crew and we started the walk across the oval to meet my fate.
Along with the crew there was a turn out of about 200-250 Melrose high kids coming along with me or at least coming along to watch.
Still all the black and white (our uniform colours) looked good marching toward the bridge across the freeway.
My mate Jade had got his older brother and a mate Nick to come along since they were 18 and we needed some guys there age.
We swung through the Mawson shopping complex first and then came back down to the bridge which was just short of the meeting spot.
As Kevin and co came into view Jades brother and mate backed out on me when they saw the dudes Kevin had with him, my mates were still by my side but I wasn‟t sure how long that would last.
Kevin called out “ I said come alone and you bring the whole school” (I was happy he was at least a bit worried) I called out get fucked and thought to myself I will just fight as well as I can and as long as I can until he over powers me and that way I might at least save face in front of all these people.
At this point a young guy from my school came up and handed me a knife and told me a few of there boys had them I put it in my pocket and kept marching at Kev and Co.
Just as me and the crowd got about ten metres away from each Kevin and co I put up my guard and started to go at him.
As I did his whole group including him turned and ran.
Don‟t get it twisted I knew they weren‟t running from me so I look behind and there‟s cops everywhere chasing kids all over the place one flew past me and grabs Kevin and one reaches for me I managed to step back and get out of his reach.
I jumped over a few fences and ran through a few backyards until I got to my place.
Over the next few weeks I found out Kevin had said around town he didn‟t want to take it further that was it I even ran into him at a couple of parties and survived.
Then the following day after the drama I was about to eat that jar of lollies I was munching when Anne rang and I thought nah I cant eat these they were my lucky charm through the whole Anne/Kevin drama and since I was running a few shifty ventures and still seeing Anne behind the big guys back I played it safe and I put them back where they came from just in case.
About six months later I was cleaning out my cupboards and Im like what‟s this disgusting melted crap!
Then I realised it was my lucky charm had a laugh and threw it out.
The good luck stayed...most of the time.
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