| When we were in High School in the early to mid 1960's, drive-in movies were the big thing. The Sandusky Drive-In had "buck night" every Tuesday night and for $1.00 per vehicle, you could pack as many people in the car as you could since all of you got in for a buck! (I imagine this also drew many deer too, since for a "buck" you could get in with a little "doe")! On other summer nights when we had to pay for each of us to get in, 1 or 2 of us always sat on the floor of the back seat and against the left inside of the door. Then the driver would stay as far away from the ticket window as he could so the guy(s) in the back wouldn't be seen. One night Tom, Tim, and I went to "Buck Night" and it was my turn to hide in the back, so I had extra money that night. I don't remember either the name or plot of the movie we saw that night, but I sure remember what happened on the way home! All 3 of us were having fun all evening (as usual), raising Cain (and Abel). We did our usual "horsing around" and watched for anyone "making out", since that's as close as anyone of us (especially me), ever got to doing that, unfortunately! That's probably why I can't remember what the moviewas about, since I sure didn't see a whole lot of it. We all made several trips to the concession stand to buy "Near-Beer". I'm not sure if it's around anymore. It was non-alcoholic, of course, but it made us feel and look "cool" carrying it around. The movie, whatever it was about, ended and we made our way out of the drive-in. About 1/2 way home, we all realized that amidst all of our evening activities that we had all forgotten to go to the bathroom! All the "Near-Beer" was starting to trickle down and knocking on our bladder walls looking for an exit! Finally, the knocks became too loud and hard to ignore any longer so we stopped the car at the start of a bridge that spanned a 4-lane highway because there was a lot of brush for "cover" at that spot. We hadn't even gotten our zippers unzipped yet when all of a sudden one of us saw a police car coming out of nowhere and heading right for us! In our panic, we all piled back into the car, ignoring the "knocks" inside our swollen bladder walls, and headed down the road and trying to look "normal". The police car followed us into the first town, which we passed through on the way home, and just as we got to a closed gas station's parking lot, he put his overhead flasher on! We immediately pulled into the darkened gas station lot since this was way before the days of "Cops" and "Wildest Police Videos". The Huron Patrolman asked to see Tom's driver's license and then asked what we were doing around the bridge, since there had been several reports in the past several weeks about kids throwing things at cars off the bridge at night. We assured him that our only intent was that we had to "go to the bathroom" VERY badly! Which was the TRUTH! REALLY! He had us wait there at the parking lot and said that he had to go on another call and that he would be back shortly. While he was away, we all FINALLY went behind the car and opened the bladder "valves" all the way open! I remember the 3 LONG narrow streams flowing on the blacktop under the car toward the road! Eventually, he came back and told us we could go since nothing was found at the bottom of the road over the bridge. His parting remarks, made "tongue in cheek", were, "Be careful where you relieve yourselves next time, I sure wouldn't want to get you for indecent exposure"! Alas... "Just another night" for us. |
