The Milkshake
October 18, 2018 Uncategorized 3 comments aday19
Childhood is a time where there are very little consequences for stupid actions, but it’s justified because we learn from these mistakes to become better people in the long run. There was one person during my childhood with whom I connected with and enjoyed hanging out with, his name is Craig. When we got together the only thing that could explain our actions is the old verbiage, “Boys will be boys”. However, there was one time in which we did not need that verbiage as impatience seems to describe it well.
Watching movies is regarded as a thing to do to wind yourself down from a busy day, so why not end a busy summer day by going to a drive-in movie in the evening? My dad pounced on this idea, and so loaded us boys into his truck. I sat in the front passenger seat while Craig sat out back, with my dad driving. So there we went on our way to Skowhegan to one of the last drive-in movie theaters in Maine. As with seeing all movies, it is best to have food and drink while you watch, so we got out of the truck and grabbed some popcorn from the vendor. However, we were less traditional on the drink as we did not grab any sodas, us boys wanted some delicious chocolate shakes to go with our popcorn. All happy and excited for the evening to come we headed back to the truck and prepared for the movie to begin.
The entire evening was going great and everything had seemed to be planned and executed well until Craig pointed out that he was still in the backseat. Along with not being able to see the best he also felt alone out back there. My dad had an easy fix, so he told Craig to wait a minute and to not move so that dad could get out of the truck and open Craig’s door (because we are in an extended cab truck). Craig would then get out of the truck and slide into the truck’s front seat. However, Craig decided to expedite the process and just go over the center console to get in the front seats. What Craig forgot to take into account was the fact that we had put down our drinks into the center console cup holders. Craig did wonderfully avoiding those cups as he made his way over, except for the fact that one of his feet caught one of the cups as he was finishing his transition. Luckily, it just so happened to be his milkshake but it did make a mess. It splashed up out of the cup soaking half of the center console, then running down to seats, which soaked it up as fast as it could run onto them.
Meanwhile, dad had just opened Craig’s door when he saw this happen and immediately yelled at Craig that he told him to stay there. Dad then grabbed whatever napkins he could find to soak up the milkshake before the seats did. However, the milkshake soaked into the seats before my dad could clean it up. We did what we could to clean it up and dry it out so that we could continue to watch the movie. The rest of the night continued on the original path of a good time and it wasn’t until we got home that us boys had to acknowledge our mistakes. Lessons were learned that day and the 6 months that followed. Craig and I both learned that we need to obey my dad’s commands because he might actually know something, I learned that Craig is extremely impatient and clumsy and that I need to keep him in check when we go out of the house. In the months afterward my dad and I both learned that we should have steam cleaned the seats asap. After about the first two weeks the chocolate smell subsided and replaced by the smell of spoiled milk, especially on hot days. Just another story of a good trip gone bad.
3 Comments
Oh lord don’t I feel this. I spilt a soda all over the back seat one time and was never allowed to drink soda in the car ever again. To learn from mistakes and know how people are could have really helped that situation. Lessons learned are a valuable part of life and can be very helpful.
This was a great story, Craig sounds like a good guy. What gets to me is my
father always says I should just have listened to him in the first place. Meaning I did something wrong. This is a very relatable story probably not just for me. I liked the way you wrote it because you did not over explain in detail and did not make it too vague.
Now this one is relatable, I can not tell you how many times my dad has given the same lecture whenever I spilt a drink in his truck. It seems as if spilling drinks is the car is a thing all children do at least once in their life and we all have to learn to be more careful and actually listen to adults once in a while. You wrote this wonderfully, it was the perfect amount of detail and description and something that will keep the audience entertained!