Lake View High School - Chieftain Yearbook (San Angelo, TX)

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s 'Drag' Provides Variety: S A By Terry Bahlman Staff Writer . Traffic is heavy, cars are lined along the street. Parking lots are nearly full and the roar of E engines drowns the usual calmness. From the air it would look like an unending procession of g l hundreds of cars and trucks. if While it sounds like a rush-hour traffic jam, it may occur as late as midnight, for it is a typical weekend night. ' j Teenagers dominate the scene rather than businessmen, working women or shoppers. The f parents are at home, but the kiddies ' have come out to play. Not with tinkertoys or Star Wars . characters, but with grown-up toys, commonly known as cars. i The play is, seemingly, to waste gas and tires in a game called riding around or to some , cruising . The toys are anything from a '55 Chevy to an '80 Porsche. lt all depends on how V much money you make or how much money your daddy makes. The object of the game is, well let's see. l The thing that makes the weekend game so interesting is that even though the object usually L remains the same, the way you play and the results are sometimes different. The object of a typical weekend for males is explained by Toby Allen, senior, in this way, To , get out of the house, organize parties, chase girls, and just check out what's going on. ' For girls, the object of the game is slightly different. According to Tammy Hudson, senior, girls go anywhere there are good looking guys. A Like all good games, the weekend game has its pitfalls. There are fights, wrecks, flat tires and cars that won't run but the most popular form of setback is a policeman, commonly referred to as chips, fuzz, pigs, and the law. P ' it..

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FRaci g, Chasing Available If it weren't for policemen, though, the game wouldn't be as exciting. For instance, the speed demons who love to burn rubber or squall their tires drive like little grannies when a cop is ,near But, as soon as the police are out of sight, the tires begin to spin. What makes this so fun is 'that sometimes you can't see the cops, but they can see you. In this case, the offender gets to see pretty red and blue flashing lights. A Despite the bad, there's also the good. If guys are really lucky and show off enough, they might jlifst persuade some cute little girls to pull over and talk. This gives the guys a chance to show off a li tle more and maybe, just maybe, the girls will be impressed. ' Of course this can work two ways. A guy with a nice car is a prime target for a girl with a fancy ye and a sweet voice. Thus the girl may get to ride in Joe Macho's car. , lf variety is the spice of life, then the spice of life is alive and well on the drag, Every kind of car manned by every kind of individual is visible. There are hot rods with loud engines, loud stereos, and wild driversg Fancy cars are also present with fancy drivers but it's usually obvious that it's daddy's car. Most prevalent on the scene are pick-ups. Small, medium or large, loud or quiet, clean and fancy or dirty and barely together, it wouldn't be a weekend without pick-ups. After all, the best pliace to throw a water balloon is from the back of a pick-up. Pick-ups are a necessity to some. 3 A ter all who ever heard of a true bonafide redneck in a 2802? Now that the game is set up and everybody has his game pieces it's time to party. The rules: four hours of showing off, traffic weaving, hot rodding, stereo playing, girl! boy chasing, by ArLnerica's future leaders: today's teenagers. lt's dark, the lights are out and the cars are all gone. lt's midnight and the kiddies have gone home to mommy and daddy.