Brian Garvey and I went to visit Tom, Brent, Garrett, and Chris at John
Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio one friday night. We all
went to see 8 Mile with Frank, Krissy, Jess, and Jory. We had a celebration
afterwards. The Dan Majerle Dream Team Jersey was being exhibited. "You
Can Call Me Al" was to be downloaded to every computer seen that
night. Brian and I got to two computers before he needed to make a phone
call. To make this call, he walked to my car, about five-hundred feet
away, in the snowy weather, with nothing more that a shirt and pants on.
He had an extended conversation with a certain Liz that lasted about an
hour or two. He was not in the best of shape, but we knew that he had
Garrett's number if he wanted to get back inside. However, he bluntly
stated, "I'm just going to sleep in your car." I made sure he
realized what he said and walked back in the dorm. I checked on him again,
and he was insistent that he was sleeping there. It was cold, and that
was the last time I could trudge through the snow to talk to him. I went
to sleep at 530 AM, not caring about him. Little did we know that his
cell phone battery went dead, so he could not get anyone to open the door.
He tried throwing sticks at the window, but it was of no use. He went
back to "Blue Thunder" and tried to sleep. I woke up at 11 and
went to my car so see a kid freezing his bezeebers off. He told me how
he tried to get back in but couldnt. He was visibly chilled, and the only
thing keeping him alive was the sweater of his he discovered at 830 am.
I dropped him off, and went to work. On Monday, my father told me that
he was taked to the hospital with frostbite in two of his toes. I was
horrified. But it turns out he was joking, and that Brian's father as
well as mine thought it was one of the funiiest things ever to happen.
To this day, every time we go to Carroll, Brian's parents tell him not
to bring his cellular phone.