Accident

I felt a crunch I was in the backseat Jake was driving There was a dent a few feet below the big white words "Student Driver" **** Jake was 17 or 18 Just now learning to drive Too busy with music and soccer I wasn't really good at anything I was 15 I had time to learn to drive **** She was really embarrassed Obviously The Driver's Ed teacher A Calvinist Was very calm and matter of fact He didn't care if he lived or died She must have been predestined to hit us Unfortunately for her Allstate is Arminian ******* Jake was in a band The Replacements No, that's an 80s band The Waterboys Shoot, that's an Adam Sandler movie The Benchwarmers That's it Wait, that's a David Spade movie Whatever He eventually got a bunch of tattoos And moved to Nashville He's got a new band Phangs And he's been part of a huge band Reliant K They sing Sadie Hawkins Dance My wife used to work with a guy named Johnnie Hawkins Every time she brought him up I sang that song Johnnie Hawkins claimed he'd never heard it I think he's a liar ***** Facebook keeps me updated on Jake We lost touch We never really had it Not that it mattered Our only connection was a common crunch ******* Sometimes I forget why we are even Facebook friends I doubt we ever spoke before or after that shared ride Then I remember and I stay connected Because he's making it big in music And one day I'm going to make it big in writing And we'll run into each other And I'll say, "Hey Jake, remember that time someone rear-ended a Student Driver car?" "Yeah." That'll be great. *****