Tour Part 18

written by:ET

Within seconds we were all out of the van. The guys had become disguised and almost impossible to recognize within seconds. We all stood there gazing at the gokart track with gleaming eyes. "I am DEFINITELY doing this." was Howie's only comment. Since we had already told Randy and Denise that we were taking the afternoon off we didn't have to check in again. We went inside the arcade to buy tickets for the go karts. Let me rephrase that, Nick, Aaron, and AJ ran into the arcade like mad men being chased out of hell, the rest of us quickly followed.

Inside we found a gigantic arcade and a laser tag room, "Hmhmh what to do first....???" Brian exclaimed rubbing his hands together, a look of exhiliration dawning his face. After 10 seconds of discussion we decided to do the go karts first, "I'm only gonna do one round, and then im hitting this arcade." Nick said a plan of attack already designed in his mischievous brain. Jim, John and the rest of the guys decided that they weren't gonna let us have fun alone.

At the counter the employe didnt even bother to look at the guys so they were never recognized, to all our relief. We bought enough tickets for everyone to do one round. Although the arcade was plagued with kids between the ages of 12 and 23 it was mainly guys, not a very high security risk for the guys, we could have fun without being mobbed for once. The 11 of us raced to the track and got in line, behind 6 other people that were already there. Even thoguh there was no potential of anyone recognizing them security asked the guys to keep the glasses and hats on just in case.

While in line Aaron proclaimed proudly, "I am soo gonna woop all your butts", "You are sooo not gonna." Kevin retorted in a challenging tone of voice. "Ohhh so the old man is challenging us hey?" John asked Kevin smirking, "You bet!" he replied smiling "mannnn this is too good to be true...OK whoever wins..." AJ announced the challenge, "Whoever wins what???" Howie and Brian asked anxiously. Nick jumped in "Whoever wins gets to make the rest of you dress in any way he.." I purposelly coughed to get his attention "..pardon,<> in any way he or SHE wants you to for the first twenty minutes of the next show.", he finished his suggestion. We all looked at each other, you could feel the doubt in the air and see it on our faces. But since all of us were sure that we would win we all agreed "Deal?" Nick asked thrusting out his hand "Deal" we all chimed in and putting our hands into one giant handshake. "I already have you guys's picked out, hehe." Kevin snickered."WE'll see, this is were it REALLY counts boys." Jeff laughed at us.

We didnt have time to keep boosting our egoes because they finally let us ont othe track. "I GET YELLOW!" AJ yelled as he ran to and jumped into the go kart. " I GET RED 7!" I yeleld immitating AJ and run to my go kart. Everyone else got their fave color. I put my hair in a ponytail and fixed my sunglasses as did everyone else. The guys turned their baseball caps backwards to look cool and so that they wouldnt fly away. AJ looked like speed racer. After the whole safety belt, no bumping shpeel they let us go.

The lap was 1/3 of a mile and our tickets were worth 4 laps a piece. Our cars were extremely fast and at first Kevin and Jeff were in the lead. At one point or a nother we were all in the lead at least once. Huge signs were posted around the track prohibiting us from ramming the car in front, that is if we had actually obeyed it. Everyone rammed everyone else. At one point Jeff rammed AJ who in turn rammed Aaron who then rammed me, we must have almost rolled over several times. In the last 2 laps john was the leader and no matter how hard we tried noone could catch up to him. He won.

"I think we should do it best 2 out of 3." Aaron defended as we all stood around the outside perimeter of the track. John didn't have a problem with it and we all wanted another chance at victory, Ted went and got 3 tickets for each of us. It was useless. No matter how hard we tried he won every single time. We were so intent on winning that at one point Kevin drove AJ off the track, but only momentarily. "Come on think about it, I've been driving you guys around for years in one vehicle or another. Did you really think you could have beat me?" John asked us laughing as we stood as dejected losers in front of the doors to the arcade.

Tour Part 19 Part 1