Sophmore year in high school a buddy and I were stoked to go see Pearl Jam I think it was like three shows they were playing in Seattle Decebmber 7,8,9,. Our parents, gave us both the be careful be on your best behavior speech. Well we had a taste for the best beer on earth, "Schmidts" so we figured we would just bring a few along for the trip. We scored tix for the 1st and last nights of the 3 shows. First show we skipped last two classes of the day and drank beers at buddies place and took off around 5pm for the show. I was rollin up I5 at a steady 80mph when my buddy goes "Jack you just passed a cop and he's pulling out with his lights on." I slowed down and tried to think what to do with the beer in my lap, the two in the cup holder, the half rack at my feet and pretty much the same lineup for my buddy in the passenger seat, but add a 1/4 of some really stinky weed and his not so tiny bubbler. I froze and did nada as I was pulling over to the side of the road. I remember just staring into my mirror as the cop approached the car and about 5 yards from us he sprinted back to the car and took off. Silence..... THEN "Jack get the fauk out of here man, go go go go." I got back in traffic and got off on mercer and we went straight to the McDonalds by Mercer Arena (I think it was called) and got large waters and replaced the fine h20 with Big winter buck Schmidts. Show was awesome, the last night I think Eddie smashed a hole in the stage with his mic stand and crawled down that as an exit. Good times, bad bad decisions, lucky bastards we were. Took me a bit to wise up on the drinknig and driving but by the end of that year, I was usually the dd, and to this day don't risk my life or others by acting like a bafoon. BTW, Some of the best shows I have seen came out of that arena. Bad ass place. Great venue for this little band outta Texas to come rock. I think they were called Pantera!
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