Parking lot nights

As the year is nearing its end, I am wondering what kind of things I will do during summer. Typically my summers have one or two activities that I'll do all summer. In freshman year I played basketball and mario kart every day. In sophomore year I got addicted to buying clothes and shoes, so I went to the mall all the time. I also biked everywhere - friends houses, the basketball courts, or the pool.

In junior year, everyone had gotten their licenses. I initially thought this would help me out because I wouldn't have to bike all the way across town to do something. While this is true, it brought up another problem. Before, when I got to someone's house, we stayed there. Nobody wanted to go through the trouble of changing locations. After my friends could drive, we could all move around with ease. So whenever someone would have friends over, a huge group of people would come because finding a ride was no longer a problem. Consequently, nobody wanted to have anybody over because it would mean that twenty or thirty people would be running around in your house, eating your food, drinking your drinks, and getting everything dirty. Whenever that happened, the host would just kick everyone out.

So the summer before junior year, a phenomenon came about in my circle of friends. We call it parking lot nights. It's when there is nothing to do (usually because nobody had enough money to go to the movies, shopping, or to eat), so everyone meets up in a parking lot to "come up with a plan." We never actually come up with a plan because it's such a hassle to have friends over, so we end up sitting in a parking lot until it's eleven and we have to go home. These parking lot nights ended up making the summer into the most boring summer yet.

With the upcoming summer, I'm hoping that my friends have grown up enough to find things to do other than parking lot nights. I figure that most people are getting jobs now, so we'll have money to actually do the things we want to do. While I like parking lot nights more than school, I feel that the glorious three months of freedom that we as students are given should be used to do more productive things. Well, not necessarily productive, but make better use of the time. I'll have to wait and see.

If you think about it, there's only a month and a half left of school, weekends included. It's an uplifting thought, as I've come down with senioritis in junior year.