Best Small Decision

[lleeder]

When I was just out of high school some of my friends went to this one kids house to get wasted. It was a Monday night and I had work the next morning so I didn't go because I wasn;t in the mood to deal with a hangover. The next afternoon I learned that my one friend flipped out and stabbed the other two kids that were there. They were in pretty bad shape, they lived but were in ICU for a while. I was wondering if anyone else made a small decision that resulted in them avoiding a bad situation.

[Hottub]

<p>I made a small decision once that ended utter disaster.</p><p>Fatback just that very day, got his Camaro RS. V8, T-roof, leather, Beautiful.</p><p>After work, he says &quot;Let's go out for a ride in my new car!&quot; &quot;OK, Cool. Let's GO!&quot; Me, Fatback, Mr. Pib and PegBoy hop into the car. Just doing some highway cruising. He took 208 all the way up to 202. Chucked a left on Ramapo Valley and wound up in front of RJ's. &quot;Hey, lets go grab a beer and toast my car.&quot;</p><p>We went in, ordered a round of drafts, and were listening to the DJ spin some great Rock and Roll. 1 round led to 2, then another, and another.</p><p>&quot;OK, it's a work night. We better get out of here.&quot; &quot;Right. Straight down 208 and we are home in 20 minutes.&quot;</p><p>Jump back on the highway. Get into Franklin Lakes. &quot;Hey, I haven't seen Ellysa in a while. Wanna stop and&nbsp;say Hi?&quot; Exit on Summit Ave. A twisty, hilly road. But we have a performance vehicle. No problem.</p><p>Except for that hairpin turn and steel guardrail!!</p><p>Long story short. The car was demolished. If not for a few good connections and name dropping, probably a night in jail. His mommy had to come and pick us up. The kids in the jeep who tried to tow us out (after we insisted they leave) got charged,&nbsp;2 years of payments on a car that was rusting away in a junkyard.</p><p>All started with saying yes to a ride in the new car,</p>

[FUNKMAN]

listening to&nbsp;car radio one night approx 5 years ago and turned it to WNEW 102.7...&nbsp;&nbsp;

[feralBoy]

Not my story but my moms.&nbsp; It starts out a ghost story.&nbsp; When she was a little kid, she asked a ouija board who she was going to marry, and it kept responding &quot;fountain blue.&quot;&nbsp; And she&nbsp;didn't know what it meant.&nbsp; Like 15 years later, she met my dad, and the night they met, my dad was supposed to go to the fountain blue.&nbsp; I think it was a restaurant or a hotel.&nbsp; He didn't because he met my mom, and decided to take her out.&nbsp; The restaurant/hotel or whatever it was, burnt down that night, and a bunch of people died.&nbsp; My mom tells it like it's a true story, and she's never really lied to me.&nbsp; Pretty weird.&nbsp;

[Don Stugots]

<strong>FUNKMAN</strong> wrote:<br />listening to&nbsp;car radio one night approx 5 years ago and turned it to WNEW 102.7...&nbsp;&nbsp; <p>great story, greater decision.</p><p>i dont one of my own that i can think of.&nbsp; sorry.</p>

[Reephdweller]

I once got the Split Decision breakfast at IHOP once. It was great.

[FUNKMAN]

<strong>feralBoy</strong> wrote:<br />Not my story but my moms.&nbsp; It starts out a ghost story.&nbsp; When she was a little kid, she asked a ouija board who she was going to marry, and it kept responding &quot;fountain blue.&quot;&nbsp; And she&nbsp;didn't know what it meant.&nbsp; Like 15 years later, she met my dad, and the night they met, my dad was supposed to go to the fountain blue.&nbsp; I think it was a restaurant or a hotel.&nbsp; He didn't because he met my mom, and decided to take her out.&nbsp; The restaurant/hotel or whatever it was, burnt down that night, and a bunch of people died.&nbsp; My mom tells it like it's a true story, and she's never really lied to me.&nbsp; Pretty weird.&nbsp; <p>I believe the Fountain Blue was considered one of if not the best hotels on the Miami strip. When i was around 9 (1971) we were on vacation in Ft Laurdedale(sp?) and we took a visit to Miami. I remember my grandfather made a point of us visiting the Fountain Blue. One thing i remember was the huge banquet rooms and my grandfather saying he had stayed at the hotel for his union business...</p>

[feralBoy]

<strong>FUNKMAN</strong> wrote: <p>I believe the Fountain Blue was considered one of if not the best hotels on the Miami strip. When i was around 9 (1971) we were on vacation in Ft Laurdedale(sp?) and we took a visit to Miami. I remember my grandfather made a point of us visiting the Fountain Blue. One thing i remember was the huge banquet rooms and my grandfather saying he had stayed at the hotel for his union business...</p><p>I think that is the place.&nbsp; I just asked my mom and she said it was in florida, and the year would have been 1979.&nbsp; But I got the story a little wrong.&nbsp; My dad was supposed to go to the fountain blue with his friend that night, and he didn't go.&nbsp; The guy was found murdered, execution style, bound and shot in the back of the head.&nbsp; I guess they told me a different story was I was younger.</p>