Ah, you’ve got to love our educational system. School was canceled because of a teachers strike. They claimed they were striking for better pay, or training or some other such nonsense that was supposed to make out lives as students better. Of course, most of the time actually being in school and learning would have been better than sitting around at home goofing off. But it’s all for the kids. Yeah right. So anyway, I had nothing better to do with my day than hang out with my friends and get into mischief. Everyone should know it’s never a good idea to leave teenagers unattended for long periods, but my parents didn’t have the luxury of taking off every time the teachers decided to go out on strike I had just spent the morning with my friends, and was feeling kind of amped up and was in the mood to see what kinds of things I could get away with. The area of town I lived in was fairly quiet and rural. There weren’t really any good places to go, or even a mall to hang out in, so