December 18, 1993

It started out with my parents fighting and all that stuff, then we went up to the hospital and Grandma‘s doing better. She can set up, stand up - with help, and feed herself that’s something to look forward for Christmas, at least New Years.

We got home at 4:30 and I picked Morgan up at 5 PM. Boy was it the funnest day of my life. I’ll put details in later you’ll understand.

See, I would never have done all of this if I wouldn’t have met Mikey. He’s making me not hate police officers so much. I love him so much for being in my life.

Morgan and I went by Mikey’s house and over our hill then went back by Mikey's house and he was gone so we looked around for him. We went to the city park and guess what song came on. Yes, “I need some TLC ASAP”

Then we went to Anna‘s and picked her up. We left her house at 7:30 and didn’t get back until 9 PM. It was so fun, What did we do? We jumped the hills and followed police officers all night long. We also went to McDonald’s and ate. We were laughing all the time.

While we were following the police we almost hit the one. We were going down block after block and the cop had stopped turn off all its lights and we stopped the car about a foot before hitting the back of the cop car. We kept going by it while it was stopped on the one street - we lost them after an hour of following them.

We turned off our lights then they turned their lights off then we turn ours on and they turned theirs on. Weird.

We (Morgan and I) followed one while Anna was in Breaktime. We went block after block and finally we got back to Breaktime. We drop Anna off and then we tried to get to the police station. We picked up Kansas Boy and he just kept saying no don’t follow them. So we found one and we followed it then another one got in front of us and we turned by the second one and lost both of them. Then we went and the one had stopped at a gas station and we went in and got a soda. Then we went back out and we followed some more then decided to go home. And guess where our cops were. Yep they were at another gas station. I believe it was Officer Johnson, Terry, and Officer Marcel or Leonard (I don't know all the cops yet, but the more I hang out with Anna and Mikey I'm sure I will figure it out.)

Anyway we (Morgan and I) went inside and we bought some chips. They looked outside and start laughing then I didn’t want to go up to pay for the chips so Morgan took the money and as I was getting more money out Officer Marcel or Leonard took the dollar from Morgan took it back and both of us started laughing we went outside and I tripped over the car and then realized I had to go to the restroom, but I was too scared to go in. Morgan made me and we were laughing the whole time. Then as we left I said, “shit I have 10 minutes to get home.” And when we left I almost hit the cop car and we spun out of the parking lot and sped out of town. It’s a miracle that they didn’t follow us then we dropped off Kansas Boy at his friend's house. What a great fun and happy night. And no we didn’t have anything to drink. Home five minutes late didn’t get in trouble.

6/07/2021 — It’s hard to believe that the very police officer who helped me get over my fears of police turned around and caused me to be afraid of them all over again. Even after all these years, I still have panic attacks when a police officer happens to be going the same way I’m going — I’m getting better at refocusing, regrouping, and going forward remembering that not all police officers are like the ones I dealt with growing up. Some days are harder than others to remember that I can’t blame them all for the few who should have never wore the badge in the first place, but I'm getting better at it.