Aaron Baer Jesse Balcer Jamie Barton Brian Bennett Chris Bergan Aklo Bley Christopher Bonner John Brackin Marlin Brown Peter Burghart Stephen Burgo Louis Burngiomo
John Bush John Butler Tom Butler Pat Byrne Mark Cabala
Jamie Cairnes Anthony Campagna Mark CampbeU Joe Cannon John Cantwell Franny Cappalletti Brian Carr
Sleven Cho! Gregory Oaverelli
George Cole Keith Conlin James Cosgrove Michael Coyle
"0 my God, I'm not going to make it in lime,"] kept thinking over and over. It was fjve minutes 10 midnight and I was twenty miles from home. Does Ihis sound familiar to you? If it does, you .uen't alone. All high
school students have to deal with a parent.lnflicted rQStricUon that hangs over teens' heads like len路lon weights: CURFEW!!
Chances are you have had at least one experience where you lost track of the lime: you were at "the party of the year"; you got caught up in allihat excite路 ment at one of those swell school mixen (maybe not); your girlfriend's parents were away for the weekend and you had to keep her company; or you just wandered too far from home looking for soml2thing to do. You had to resort to bending the speed limit a littll2, running that "yellow" light; and blowing by one of those annoying stop signs. You arrive at your house a half hour lale and you
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figure "This is it! I'm grounded for surl2." You havl only onl2 chance. "Maybl2 they'rl2 asleep." You sneal In qUIl2lly through the back door and cautiously slip UJ Ihe stain to your room when suddenly, a vOlce fron the darkenl2d living room says, "Where thl2 hell wer, you!!!" Uh-oh! They caught you. You have to think fasl, "I know," you say to yOUl self, "I'll just coml2 up with a really good excuse." Yo tell Ihem the first Ihing thaI comes 10 mind: "I wa waiting al a red light and it musl have been broke because it didn't change for at least an hour. I dldn want 10 just go through It because you a/ways said t obey Ihl2 traffic laws." You notice thai they don appear to believe you so you come up with anothe excuse, and then another: ranging from bad accident to the l2ver reliable '" had a flat tire." Your parents te you that they understand perfectly, and Ihen groun you lor Iwo weeks. Does this sound familiar?