New Years 1997

There is one New Year’s party that sticks out in my mind the most. The New Years Party of 1997. It was a great idea at the time, but turned out to be unrealistic!

New Years 1997. Me and some friends from Doaktown, decided that New Years would be cool if we could have a big party some place. After much deliberation, we decided that the Car Wash would be perfect. It was off the main drag, it had electricity, and most importantly there were NO PARENTS! It was really really cold that year...as in take the coldest day you remember and times that by 10 and you have how cold it was that night. One thing we apparently did not take into consideration was the lack of bathrooms and the lack of heat! Now I have to describe the car wash for you so you can visualize my New Years. I'd take a picture of it, but they tore it down since then...so sorry no picture!

The building consisted of two parts, one with a garage door and one with a regular door on the outside. The garage door is obviously where the cars are washed, it's a big empty room with a pressure washer and another door at the back. The floor is concrete, the walls are aluminum. The regular door leads to a dirt floor room where the wood is kept along with a wood stove (used to heat the concrete floor) and extra soap and other cleaning supplies. The door at the back lead to a small office of sorts, where the stereo is and another door to the wood room, also in this room is the supplies needed to wash cars.

We came prepared (so we thought) we brought camping chairs and of course coolers. The party began and it was cold in there it was actually warmer to sit on the concrete floor then it was to sit in the camping chairs or on the coolers. We sat around there for quite awhile and thought that if we drank more then we wouldn’t notice the cold.

Then came the first of the girls to have to pee…of course it was me…add alcohol and cold weather and yeah I’ve gotta pee!!! Of course there was no where for a girl to pee at least not with out freezing to death. So my friend Andrew lived in town and his parents weren’t home. I had been to Andrews a lot, and had been hired by his mom to do some light cleaning around the house.

My friend Sarah and I decided to walk down to his place to use the bathroom, it was about a 20 min walk, which we ran half the way cuz it was so cold! By the time we got there we couldn’t feel our legs, my thighs weren’t even there or so it felt. And I was pretty much sober by then.

After the facilities had been used, Sarah and I decided to get warm before the walk back to the car wash. I went upstairs and grabbed us a couple of blankets and wrapped up and sat on the couch, then we decided that we didn’t really want to walk back to the car wash and wondered how long it would take everyone to get the idea that we weren’t coming back.

We only sat there for about 20 mins before they all showed up, they had packed everything up and decided that Andrew’s place would definitely be a better place to celebrate New Years! That night we had a great time drinking and playing cards.

Andrew decided he wanted me to cook for him (he loved my scrambled eggs and bacon) So, he digs out the pans and we cooked. His parents were probably so mad at him, cuz we cooked a dozen eggs and two pounds of bacon that night! But what a feast it was!!!

That was my New Year’s of 1997.