Never Follow The Track

"Try and find the positive in the situation" - The Rage In Placed Lake

Prologue: Ever had the worst day in history? Ever wanted to just smash everything around you? We'll I had one of those days. But without the anger. Self control over anger I think is the most important thing you can do. Just smile. You'll be laughing about it soon enough.

7th August 2010

I haven't really had much to look  forward to over the last month. Same routine and what not. Though the last 24 hours has been definitely one to remember. Jeric's 18th was the hot topic. Definitely talked up and expectations we're more than less met. So I got to be driver on the night.

1930 We turned up an hour and a half late. I don't think we missed much. We we're shoved into the back corner. Food was nice. I don't exactly know how the night was meant to be presented. It didn't seem to have much schedule to it.

2200 I don't know who started on the cake. It looked pretty mangled. But I did then choose to help out with the strawberries! Coping some cake in the face at the same time! Night was looking up. We we're definitely in better spirits now. 

2300 At least the dance floor heated up someway into the night. There was a period of time we're it seemed a heap of people went missing.

8th August 2010

Skipping ahead. All the antics. It's actually Post-Party I want to share. Abel, Armen, Adman and I we're about to receive a whole lot of karma. 

0100 So we decided to drive through this field instead of going around the long way. Following the track laid out before us was the worst idea ever. Simply enough we, well I, managed to bog the car in nice deep hole. So here we are in our nice party wear trying to push this car out of the mud. There was seriously nothing we could do. 

Doesn't look that bad but the left side was sunk!

0130 Out of a million things that could've happened a friend was in the area and we got a lift back to the Mazo's home to grab some boots and more heavy duty clothing.

0200 Dragging hard rubbish back to the car we tried using a huge mattress sponge to soak up the water, wood pieces to get some traction on the wheels. We had high spirits and a goal to get this out and have a laugh. As much as we revved that car and pushed it was going no where. Road side assist wouldn't even attempt to get us out. We spent more time trying to lift the car and getting something under the tyre.

0300 At this point we definitely had given up. Poor car. Lock up and try again when the sun comes up.

0330 Sleep Time!

0900  Back to work and putting back our muddy clothes. Help of Dad, the sun, a whole heap of tough wood, few buckets and motive of Hungry Jacks! We start scooping all the water out. Shoveling mud out with our hands. It was a long process of jacking up the car a bit to wedge some wood under. We had to do all four tyres. The car was muddy and had hand prints and mud drawings all over it. Thanks boys.

1100 We have some progress happening and the wood is being laid out nicely. Jack had done the job. We had to make sure each piece was solid and supported and was being stuck in correctly. There was no way I wanted to go through this process again!

1130 Slowly reverse the car back and with some man power pushing it back. We got a small wheel spin. But then it just moved all the way out. WE'D FRKN DONE IT! We all look like we've crawled out from the mud itself. Mud hurts when it dries and you try take it off. We make a monument as victory and also as a warning to other driving 'STAY OFF THE TRACK!'

Pre-Clean - It was way more muddy than this

1200 Get back home to clean everything. Thick mud is everywhere.

1300 Now we're sitting in HJ's enjoying a very unhealthy meal but one deserved. Though receiving a reward for getting ourselves out of a predicament which our own stupidity put us in could be argued undeserved. Thank God I didn't have to pay $160 for a tow truck to come and 'attempt' to get us out.

But wait.. Day gets worse

1600 Driving to Murrumbeena for cheer training. A lady in front of me slams her breaks. So do I of course my car is bigger hence needing more time to stop. I did slow down significantly but I still managed to bump in to the back of her. Dammit! So now I have a car covered in mud and dented a bit of the front panel and chipped some paint off the front.

Just annoyed it chipped so easily. haha

Out of this whole experience though I did learn something about myself that I already suspected but have never been put in the situation. I have a very high tolerance for life's crap. It took all off about one song to have me in a good mood again. Cleaning the car was even fun. Also make your own way, cause if you follow someones path you might end up stuck. "Thats Deep" and the puns just keep on rollin' in! 

Sometimes situations may seem really glum. Looking past what you have to do, to when you'll be able to look back at it and just be happy. Sometimes you won't get the result you want. Sometimes someone will screw it up. Find something funny about it and don't be such a bitch to yourself or others.  

My positive out of today is that I know my boys are the best guys I could have in my life. As much as our immaturity may get us into trouble we know that we are still able to take it and make a good day out of any day. So to Abel, Armen & Adman, Thanks. Brothers don't come better than you. *high accented 'YEA'