The Rocket once showed us a home movie that he made with his 80s fraternity brothers. It included many mullets and dumb antics. One memorable scene in the film includes Rocket riding shotgun in a car with an actual shotgun on College Avenue. The 80s must have rocked.
Once we thawed Rocket out of his frozen 80s man cocoon he took to his wild vehicular antics once more. One night in a drunken stupor Rocket attempted to drive to Sharkies, but was stopped by 2 brothers who didn't think he was in any shape to drive.
Rocket tried to argue with them and proclaimed, "I'm not down with all these new by-laws"
Another night Rocket did manage to drive drunk and hit a lightpost outside of McClanahans. The next day he asked The Colonel if he would do him a favor and go down to McClanahans and retrieve the pieces of his bumper that were strewn all over the curb and sidewalk. He was paranoid the cops would ID his vehicle from the plastic fragments.
Lastly his car was due for inspection and Rocket felt his ride would not pass the test of an upstanding inspector. Instead he inquired to many brothers including Colonel, Otis, and Franchise if they knew a place that would "slap a sticker" on his car. Oh yeah, Rocket, I know corrupt auto-mechanics all over State College.
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The Rocket's care illicit's other fine memories for me as well. Including driving him to class, watching him put 16 cents worth of gas in his car so he would have enough left over for cigarettes, and going to his mechanic in Center Square. The Rocket's car was an icon of awful sorts
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