Prompt: The Follower

Guys Write for Guys Read – "The Follower"  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4649807

See also the book by Gary Paulsen  Harris and Me  or his book Masters of Disaster.

Consider also the part of The Outsiders when Ponyboy and a friend see how long they can hold cigarettes on their hands.

Prompt:  Write about a time when you were the follower and did something stupid

or disregarded mother’s advice or an admonition or command

or wish you would have disobeyed.

A beginning for Ms. Dorsey's story -- 

            "Everybody did it – at least everybody from the farming community of Clover, Idaho who was old enough to have a drivers license (maybe some who weren't old enough, too) and too young to fear death and dismemberment.    We called it “Deadman’s Curve.”  The name should have been discouraging, but for teens it was enticing.   It was a sharp curve, following the curve in a large canal – large enough to swallow up a car or pickup. 

            The challenge was to see how fast you could go around the curve.  Disobeying laws wasn’t in character for me,  but at 16 I had been driving with a license for two years, felt so experienced, and had a need for speed."