Continued from part I.
When I drove home that night I was totally psyched and when upon arrival I spent a good deal of the hour that followed playing Paul Simon’s Graceland album in front of our door using the normally unused volume of my car stereo. At some point we even drew some kind of a crowd so I guess it was pretty loud.
I always wanted to do this when I was younger but somehow found myself studying instead of hanging out with the bad guys (besides the fact that a car and a sound system were noticeably absent during those days). My grandma who lives next door even called my parents that evening to say that “they went berserk, they are dancing in the streets!”. Yeah that’s right grandma – we (my brother and me) were dancing in the streets!
Of course, when grandma called in the neighbor across the street and he came out with his daughter (for crying out loud) things were not that much fun anymore and besides, we already had decided to call quits during the song that was playing so the music was killed a short while later and peace returned to our street once again. For me, that also started a two week vacation with the new year right in the middle. That meant at least two weeks of not seeing either one of them girls without a reasonable excuse (like appearing for work).