A little reminiscing....

It's my little brother's birthday today. He would be 35. I lost him barely a month after his 18th birthday on November 11, 1995 in a car accident, Remembrance Day of all days. Way too young to have experienced what life could offer. He was a sweet, stubborn boy with a big heart, would have done anything for a friend.  He had a silly streak and loved to make people laugh. Not afraid to get into trouble, he managed to have a few run ins with the law, nothing major, mostly things to laugh about. Like getting chased by the cops in a potato field and ending up having to spend the night in jail.  Or the halloween the year before were he and his friends decided to go trick or treating with nylon socks on their heads with their hands in their pockets. Now keep in mind, he was a tall boy with 13 size shoes, in other words... I think they scared the shit out or a few people. Now the Last halloween he and his friends, including me, decided we would all go drive around and throw eggs and water balloons at unsuspecting trick or treaters, you know, the usual. 

Well his luck would have it that the first victim he picked was an undercover cop car with his window down... shit!!  The cop put his balloon on top of his car and u turned around on a dime right behind us. Too much traffic to pull an attempt at a run for the potato field. We had to pull over. Oh the joy of having a light shone in your face for having a garbage bag full of unused water balloons by your side in the back seat, yeah that was me. I was red as a beet :P We ended up surrounded by 3 cop cars, all the cops of our little town until they got called away to a real emergency. As far as I can remember all we got where warnings. What where they gonna do? Fine us for trowing eggs on bacon? ;-)