i escaped imprisionment

Under Arrest
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Have you ever been arrested? If the answer is yes, what did you get arrested for?

it was christmas time in east los angeles. it may have been somewhere not east los angeles, but i really can't remember. all i know is that i was in a largely hispanic neighborhood with my cousin and his girlfriend. we were in a sears department store and i of course had no money. i didn't go with them intending on pulling of the biggest heist of my life. i was just along for the trip... and to see if my cousin's girlfriend would follow through on her promise.

she was going to pay for my 2nd piercings. something my mother forbade me from doing and something i hid from my cousins girlfriend. she was a little dumb. i remember feeling a little embarassed that i didn't have very nice earings on. well, i spotted the most beautiful pair of gold loope earings.

they weren't just any pair you see. they were fancy. yeah, fuck off, i was into hoops in the 80's. crappers. well, i fucked up. i lingered too long when i held the earings in my hand. and the problem was i went back. clearly looking like a rookie theif i'm sure i was spotted right off the bat. i thought i was being slick, but i wasn't slick enough.

i got separated from my cousin, his girlfriend was getting her manicure elsewhere. i started to go outside to meet up with my cousin at the indoor swap meet next door, but a security guard came huffing up to me. i kicked him hard between the legs before he got a word out and i ran for my life. when he caught his breath he took off after me. i was surprised he could move that fast. i huffed and puffed and pounded my legs into the pavement making my way past a few pedestrians.

i ran across the street without looking and was nearly hit by a car, but i was too fast for it. showing off i slid off the edge of the hood and kept running until i got inside the swap meet. as the flurry of people inside began swallowing me up i turned around and saw the guard bent over cursing under his breath with his hands on his knees. he never made it across the street. i met up with my cousin and he never knew what happened, then his girlfriend got my ears pierced. i donned my new earings and showed them off....

that's how it happened and i'm sticking to it. okay, some people might tell you that i was taken into a back room and threatened with arrest. that i was handcuffed and chained to a bench. that no one could find me for hours. that i cried like a baby and that when he asked me for my moms number i couldn't remember it. actually i coudln't remember anything. the really sad part about it was that i was probably 13 maybe 14? i couldn't even remember my own address.

i did eventually, i mean he actually felt so sorry for me he was trying to comfort me. my cousin eventually found me and the guard got a hold of my mother. i may have given him the number i can't remember. my cousin was horrified. not that i was caught stealing mind you. just that i'd been lost for 4 hrs and he didn't know what to do. i think i was supposed to meet him at the swap meet next door and when i didn't make it he went everywhere looking for me never thinking i'd still be at the sears.

i did get my ears pierced that day. probably because i coudlnt' stop crying and my cousin didn't know what else to do. we eventually laughed our asses off. they told me how lucky i was that they didn't arrest me. when i got home my mother wasn't exactly the happiest person. it wasn't that she was angry actually. it was that she became so fucking hysterical that my aunt, uncle and other cousins where there. in fact, because it was christmas time i think there were a few more aunts there i had to contend with. let me tell you, you don't want to fuck with your aunts. oh the fucking unbelievable GUILT TRIP!

my mom was crying, hysterical and just...fucking RETARDED! and my aunts didn't hesitate in laying it on as thick as they could. i was almost relieved when my mom spotted the 2nd piercing. now that reaction was the shit....i'd almost do it all over again just to piss her off that much.