Greasy Lake Bad Boys
...y” (Boyle 144) and has numerous objects strewn about the lot and shoreline and even a bloated corpse within the lake. What begins as an innocent night of going out with the guys on the third night of vacation ends up being a night of unfortunate circumstance of wrong doing and bad boy image immaturity. They cruise the strip numerous times and then decide to leave and go up to the lake which was once beautiful that is now a mess and filthy water to see whats going on. On the way Jeff hangs his head out of the car and vomits, they throw eggs at people walking along the road way. When they finally reach their destination it’s a close to empty lot with only a old chopper and one vehicle. As the vehicle is mistaken for their friends they proceed to be bad and play a practical joke and shine the headlights on the parked car. This is turn angers the man inside which is a true bad boy as he comes out swinging his fists fighting all three boys. Eventually worn out and his adrenaline pumping, not thinking rationally the narrator decides to get the tire iron out of his mother’s car and proceeds to hit the bad guy upside the head with it and knocks him out. This enrages the female inside the car and she comes out screaming and the boys attack her and attempt to rape her and is saved by a true bad boys car coming in the lot. The three young and scared boys scatter, not staying around to be true bad boys and fight off whoever has ruined their fun. As the narrator sinks himself in the lake to get away he comes upon a floating body. This begins his thinking oh my, what have I done and what am I thinking I’ve murdered someone, attempted to rape someone and now I must run to hide or else I will surely go to jail. With all this remorse, he knows this is not what he wants for his life and indeed he is not a true bad boy. When the boys emerge from their hiding spots they stand in silence looking at the once b...