About 2 AM we decided we needed two cokes

About 2 AM we decided we needed two cokes. We couldn’t go into the house via the back door of the house - and it is unlikely there were cokes in the ‘fridge anyhow. Kool-Aid maybe, but not cokes.

So these two boy geniuses came up with a plan. We would ride our bikes to the 24 hour laundromat at the corner of Cleveland and Filmore (a couple of miles away) and buy cokes from the coke machine.

Laughing and whisper yelling we loaded up and headed off to the laundromat on our trusty two wheelers. The fluorescent lighting of the laundromat drew us like moths to a flame and the coke machine regurgitated two cans of sweet carbonated beverage.

Back on our bikes, we began an impromptu race to get to my house. We split up, each thinking we could gain an advantage despite the strict Cartesian nature of the north-south and east-west grid of streets.

About two blocks from home a police cruiser roared up with lights flashing and blocked my progress.