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Ichabod!

2001-07-31 12:01 a.m.

EJM ankh: kelley and i went up to talk to mr cop man

EJM ankh: mr golf shirt dude

Redherring409: seriously?

EJM ankh: yeah, we did

Redherring409: was he in the park

EJM ankh: yeah, he drove back a few times, up to the tennis courts like usual. so kelley and i walked up to talk to him

Redherring409: what'd you say

EJM ankh: just that we didnt understand why

Redherring409: and he said

EJM ankh: and in return we got a whole rant about unruly teenagers, and taxpayers, and growupwhyareyouplayinginachildrensparkanyway

Redherring409: are you kidding me.

Redherring409: what does he suggest we do instead/

EJM ankh: he just went on and on and on and repeating himself until i said its tenfiftyseven, i need to get out of the park

Redherring409: aw god.

EJM ankh: for a while he insinuated that we shouldnt be playing games anyway, and i told him i wouldnt let anyone under twelve play with any kind of gun, so laser tag is a teenagers game

Redherring409: i love how every other cop that kicked us out of there thought our stuff was cool

EJM ankh: he says its park directors and tax payers complaining about stuff being destroyed

Redherring409: this pisses me off so much....

EJM ankh: and theres prolly gonna be signage declaring imagination station closed after sundown

Redherring409: i always thought it was jason exaggerating about cops just not wanting us to have fun and stuff

EJM ankh: nope, i just think cops are conditioned against teenagers, cause they have to deal with so many of the bad ones. and thats really a shame. Redherring409: god.

EJM ankh: i hate the establishment.

so thats the biggest part of the night in a nutshell. and that was the second cop encounter of the night. a cop followed me into the trinity parking lot around nine when i went there to meet kate. we got off then when we told him we were band kids. yeah, cause band kids are good kids. the only part that made me really mad was when he said we should grow up, and we shouldnt be playing in playgrounds anyway. seriously. the day i believe that i have grown up and am too old to "play," shoot me on the spot, for christ's sake.

i wish i lived somewhere where the cops have something better to do than harass teenagers. and i really resent people like drew and greg and jimmy ....people who i went to school with, and still do at nd, kids my age who arent hurting for money or opportunities of any kind, but still get high and go out to steal tires. tires! and not even out in the boondocks, but on a suburban street. i listen to all this folk music, about respecting everyone, and then get treated with so little respect, just because of my age. i went to talk to him with kelley because i didnt want to be just another nameless faceless teenager.

"People didn't have a pigeonhole to put it into to get uptight about it." from The Further Inquiry. Normally, laser tag is something like that, people just cant pigeonhole it. unfortunately, were in another pigeonhole we cant escape, one which we are forced into based on our age. and i spend so much of my time trying not to be pigeonholed.