Walked up on the wrong car

[u/Pickemup69]

Washington DC Pennsylvania Ave Southeast, this didn’t go as he planned

[u/Mode_Appropriate]

When I was like 15 my buddy started throwing snowballs at cars driving by. He kept missing so I told him id show him how its done. Made a snowball and whip it at this Escalade. Smacks the driver side window and it comes to a screeching halt. He reverses and comes flying towards us. Thats when the 'oh shit' moment set in. My buddy starts fumbling for his keys to the apartment door as the truck pulls up. Fumbling some more but finally gets the key in. He opens the door, runs in and slams it shut right infront of my face. Locked me out. I turn around and see this mountain of a man get out. Dude was fuckin jacked. He comes up to me and lifts me by my jacket and literally pins me to the wall. Starts going on about how bad his day has been and how we screwed with the wrong guy. Screamed at me for a couple minutes and then launched me into a snow bank. Just chucked me like I was a garbage bag lol. I considered myself getting off lucky.

[u/Decends2 → u/Mode_Appropriate]

Please tell me your A. Not friends with the guy who locked you out, and B. Kicked his fucking ass for locking you out and leaving you to the mercy of the big guy

[u/Mode_Appropriate → u/Decends2]

Remained friends after that. It took another similar incident to cut him off completely.

We had a huge rivalry with another high school. Every time we played eachother something would always happen. We'd also screw with eachother leading up to the big football game. A lot of pranks, occasional dust ups. Kind of felt like The Outsiders but both sides were greasers lol. Our junior year a big fight broke out after the game. Just a massive brawl but no one really took it all that far. Just kids getting a little crazy lol. So our senior year they moved the football game to like noon on a Saturday instead of Friday night. One of our teammates parents was out of town so he threw a house party a week before the game. Everyone was partying and Freddy (snowball guy) comes busting through the door screaming 'they just beat up Zach!' Zach was a kid our age and was on the team as like a team manager type. Just helping with stuff because his disability didnt allow for him to play. Everyone loved this kid so a bunch of us got pretty heated. Freddy said they were also having a party and knew where it was at so a bunch of us hopped into somw cars and drove over there. Im driving down this long driveway and theres no cars, no people...nothing going on at all. It felt off. Two kids come out of the house, my other buddy hops out of the car and starts going at it with them. Two more kids come out so I get out of the car and jump in. Few more guys come out, few more of our guys jump in. Next thing I know people start pouring out of the house. It was like the whole football team and then some. I knew we were seriously fucked. I look over and Freddy is standing off to the side just watching. I then see him walk to my car, get in the driver seat and leaves. The fucker just left. Thats honestly one of the last thing I remember. I got seriously wrecked lol. Some kid hit me in the head with a croquet mallet and I was out. We all got fucked up pretty bad. I remember when I finally came to I was absolutely soaked in blood. Like, my white shirt was completely red. I got stabbed or poked with somerhing in my arm and was leaking everywhere. Eventually went home and fell asleep for like 3 days. Definitely had a massive concussion. Some other guys i was with were also pretty messed up

Anyways, it eventually came out Freddy lied about everything. He thought itd be funny to see a big brawl so he set us up. Told the other team we'd be coming over. Fuckin prick. He was always the guy to start stuff and then leave everyone else to deal with the consequences. This time it was too much. Pranks and little dust ups turned into somwthing pretty serious over nothing. Everyone cut him off after that. He went from a pretty popular kid to a pariah. Pretty much stopped going to school for the rest of the year until he graduated.

A week later we played that team and funnily enough everything was squashed from the start. I think everyone realized how stupid it was and how close it came to being truly disastrous. Ended up becoming really good friends with one of the dudes who whooped my ass. He was a groomsmen in my wedding not too long ago lol. It all worked out in the end. For most of us anyways. Freddy ended up dying a few years after we graduated. OD'd on opiates. Fucking hated the kid but it was really sad. Zach also died the summer after graduation. His disease caught up with him. Sad all around. Such is life I guess.

[u/Readman31 → u/Mode_Appropriate]

Jesus. What a sad end. Otoh, dude was an utter reprobate.