Give Me Paddy or Give Me Death

Here it is. I haven’t given you guys a fishy read in a while so here goes…

Daniel : “It’s firing dude, it’s firing”

Me: “What?!”

Daniel: “You have to leave school…NOW”

The setting is about three years ago a sweaty September afternoon during lunch break at Talbert Middle School on a Tuesday. It all started off with a phone call from my friend Daniel who was about eighteen years old at the time, a senior in at Laguna Hills High School. His first words were “It’s firing dude, it’s firing”. This totally freaked me out at the time because we were always having assemblies and talks about school shootings and the whole subject made me paranoid at the time. So I answered with a deranged  “What!?” and to heighten my paranoia Daniel replied with “You have to leave school…NOW”.

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