Hopping Out Of A Raging Car (Part 2) – Mad Chaos: November 17, 1998

Ralf Needs A Brain Timeout

Half the time Ralf doesn’t know where he’s driving and when we catch onto that and start giving him pointers he has to have a brain time out. When this happens he usually starts getting angry because he can’t think with people talking, pretty lame. When Ralf finally gets silence by yelling over the top of everyone and threatening them with either brutal force or having them kicked out of the car (Like what he had done Saturday night on our drive) he would continue with his outdated thought process.

An Old Atari Brain

To me, Ralf’s brain waves are outdated by at least a millennium, still with the original box but now carted with dust all over. To explain in more simplistic terms for the underprivileged, today’s brain is standard to a Pentium Processor with 400 MHz. Ralf has an old Atari 2600 brain with stick figure action and if you would upgrade it you would only achieve a standard to what I am running these days, a very slow, brain numbing IBM 80486.

Ralf was rude in his force to get silence and for the fact that Tyler and Keith were only talking calmly amongst themselves and not directly to Ralf I didn’t feel silence was needed. That isn’t the end of Ralf’s stupidity when it came to going over the top with his ADD but let me just finish chronologically.

Food Run Gone Wrong

Arriving at a service station Keith took out some money and all I can remember is thinking “Why the fuck did Ralf come all the way to a service station in Wollongong to get something to eat. Of all places we ended up visiting a service station but to Ralf’s defense of my worsening memory I think we did actually visit Macdonald’s. Now I remember, Ralf bought himself a meal as did Keith and Tyler along with myself bought some ice-cream cones.

When the buying was done we headed back to the Cabins en route the Bottle Shop. While there Ralf drove off because Keith wanted to buy tickets early to ‘Waves’ and Ralf thought we should get money off everyone else. Leaving Tyler behind we headed to get money off everyone else.

Tickets Turn Into Trouble

Entering the Cabin once again greeted by sweet smell of the barbecue that had just been made I took a couple of pieces as Keith argued over the money. Everyone was enticed to go down and buy their tickets and in no hurry to get back and probably having now forgotten about Tyler we headed back to Ralf’s car. This is where the shit started to travel upstream and believe me it wasn’t pretty.

On his way back and walking Tyler screamed out that the tickets were only $2 before 9:00 p.m. and Keith started screeching with excitement “Come on man let’s go let’s go, come on tickets are cheap”. Ralf didn’t like Keith’s excited shouting and screaming right back at Keith he blared “Don’t you scream at me, don’t you dare scream at me”.

Such an angered tone was this that Keith jumped out of the car stating “I don’t want to hear this shit, I’m walking”. Ralf then yelled even louder telling him to jump back in the car as Ralf backed up and hit hard on the brakes. Keith jumped in the car and Ralf’s stupid driving pissed me off that I jumped out of the car knowing that I didn’t want my life endangered by a reckless driver with no control at the time.

Threats Of A Run Over

Ralf didn’t like my stand against him as I kept walking what was only a brisk stroll across the road. All the way down the street I could hear Ralf yelling his authority to Keith and I couldn’t think nothing but “Thank God I’m not in the car to listen to Ralf’s Bullshit” because that’s what it was. Later in the night Keith told me that Ralf was thinking about running me over because I angered him so much but all I done was jump out of the car in silence and walk.

Ralf’s just an ADD idiot and he has to realize that his loud voice isn’t shit unless he’s going to back it up. Sure Ralf can sit there screaming and boasting he’s going to run me over but I can be sure that if he had even attempted it I wouldn’t have been all talk against him, I would have been break his side mirror and jab him with the serrated edge while unwillingly carving my hand up. Big black boy might fabricate fear with his big words but I know what I can accomplish and that’s plenty more than Ralf will ever dare, even in his fits of rage.

Walking Into Waves Early

Walking to ‘Waves’ I didn’t notice Ralf’s car drive down there, all I could do was hear him screaming and his car tires doing the same. Vedat and Karl along with Binh were all getting stamped early for the night and as I asked if I could walk in with my sneakers I was allowed access. As I also asked if a collared shirt was necessary they told me the only shirt I couldn’t wear was something sort of like a bonds shirt or singlet.

Walking back to Keith’s car in the car park I waited for him to arrive so I could take out my belongings but he didn’t appear and neither did Ralf. Gathering they were still arguing I made my way to the Cabin and noticed Keith was back but Ralf wasn’t anywhere in sight. Inquisitive as I was, Keith told me that Ralf had scooted off in his car to argue with himself. Keith told me that he was driven back but I didn’t see Ralf’s car coming back in so I gathered that Keith walked back through the second entry to the Cabin.

Drinks And A Camera

For the next two hours everyone started mixing drinks and pissing up, no cups were left untouched by any lips but mine. Ralf wasn’t there which made the atmosphere much more breathable. Shawn took out his still camera and took a couple of pictures with the whole group minus Ralf and himself from some of them. Shawn took out his camera and started filming our night and I noticed that like everyone tends to once they see a camera, everyone put on an act. People seem to think that once they are in front of a camera they have to do something so we did.

Having not yet taped from the original I can’t remember in depth what we caught on the camera but I can remember what happened. From the start we began chanting out songs and as the group sang and a portion of us done a beat and some other shit we collaborated some funny shit. Basically it was everyone just being drunk and me just being high on life and no sleep, well that didn’t happen till later that night. We taped about twenty minutes of us being drunkards and singing to the camera.

Meeting Karl

I think I forgot to mention Karl in the last paragraph I meant to bring him into the picture so here goes. Karl is a tall, blonde hair guy who is surfie looking in appearance. His attitude is hard to describe but he’s not a mean kind of guy, just a laid back attitude who likes to laugh and on occasion make people laugh. To Ralf his attitude doesn’t agree with him but how much people would get along with Ralf when you take out the fear factor, not many.

Karl seemed alright to me and his first real words to me were outside as we headed for ‘Waves’. Both of us were waiting for everyone else and he asked something about my popularity at school and humbly I told him I was a geek. “No way, you being picked on I can’t see it. You look full on like a hit man for the Italian Mafia. If you cross your hands in front of your body you would look like a mean cunt not to be messed with” was his reaction.

Getting Dressed For Waves

Preparing for our night I splashed on plenty of Cologne and redone my hair with some wetting gel that Tyler had brought to style his own hair. I’m not sure if it was Tyler being drunk or not really caring about his body but as he jumped out of the shower he disrobed himself and exposed himself as he got dressed. To me it just looked like he was waiting for a reaction to what seemed to be some sort of joke. All of us were surprised of his candidness but most were like “What are you doing man”.

Making fun about Masozi cracking onto Tatton because he was Gay we were referring to Tyler as the upcoming Masozi. Everyone was ready by 10:30 p.m. and packing away the camera we prepared to leave. As everyone was getting ready we were making a big racket and by the way, Ralf had come back while we were making the movie. Because of this large racket that we were making the neighbors complained and as I stepped outside the security guard on patrol told me there were three complaints and if he received another we would get kicked out. Luckily that was the only scare of the night.

Girls From Canberra

Making our way out of the Cabin and locking the back door we came across two girls just down a couple of cabins who were standing on their back porch. Tyler walked up to them first full of confidence and asking them if they were headed for ‘Waves’ later in the night. As the rest of us walked up to them we had a chat finding out they came all the way from Canberra for this visit and as most wanted to head off we pulled Tyler off his attempt.

As we told them we would see them in ‘Waves’ I left speaking words of appraisal to the beautifully skinny and taut body. Wearing some skin tight pants and an equally strained shirt on her size six body I was beginning to imagine what her body would look like underneath. Blonde or closer to red was her hair and looking as if she came from the outback with her accent and curled hair I liked what I had seen. What was to come later was also comforting but more when we arrive to that.