I was weak. I'll agree with that.
I shouldn't have trashed Hip openly. I agree with that, too.
I'll repeat what I believe to be my only point. Hip has posted stories trashing me and his friends about what happened that are false. He could have said worse things about me, Mike, Pete and others that are true, I'm sure.
I just want to know why - from him. He has not answered that one question either by PM's or the open posts. Nobody here can answer it for him. Anyone else can weigh in, but really, you can't answer.
I wasn't in St. Pete with him. He was incarcerated about six weeks longer than I. I'm sure I had an easier time in treatment. I was 19 when we met, and "wanted to be there". He was 5 years "straight" when I met him. He was over age by then,older than me, and still coming around. I admired him. I rode around in his SuperBee with Scott W. and Kevin G. Two years later we had jobs on staff together. It was supposed to be great.
Reading his posts kind of cut me open.
Stuff I'd forgotten.
I don't agree with his version of the events that took place. I remember it differently.
Hip "remembers" on his posts that he returned and removed a drain plug from someone's transmission to exact revenge. He might have done it to Mike's '80 Camaro or Pete's '79 Cordoba. Pete's car never ran right. Those are his memories. Ask Him.
What I remember is being off staff for a few weeks and driving on 128 to my new job. My brakes went soft as I drove toward a traffic jam. In my 14 month old Ford Escort. I Stood on the pedal and rear ended a car in the breakdown lane doing 50. It was a four car collision. I put my head through the windshield. Concussion, lacerations, a strained neck, two strained wrists, and a couple of loose teeth. No seatbelt - I was lucky, they said. I didn't have health insurance. I got a bill for $157.00 to cover the ambulance. Somebody, a straight parent, I think, paid the rest. For a few weeks after, I would sometimes cut my fingertips on the broken glass bits embedded in the scabs when I washed my hair.
Before I read Hip's post, I thought it was just an accident. What would you think, reading that on-line after 20+ years?
I remember lot's of other things, but they didn't happen to me, so I don't feel right about sharing them here. I'll share them with Hip, though.
If you were there, tell me what you personally remember. What happened in that apartment - or at 53 Evans Drive, Stoughton, MA between April and July, 1985?
If you weren't there, have your say. There's a big difference between "I remember" and "I think".
