Didn't Think She'd Be That Mad

It's the spring of 1983, my senior year in high school.  I'm heading towards graduation, the weather is great and it's the weekend. On this Friday night my friend Rich and I are going to go to a party with 2 girls. One girl, Debbie, is a really good friend of mine and the other girl, Shari I've known forever.  This isn't a date but just the 4 of us going to a party. The party happens to to be at a guy's house who goes to the high school in the town next to us. Rich and I really don't know anyone but hey, it's a party so I'm in. Shari has volunteered to drive which is good with us. We get to the party which is a good 30-40 minutes from where we live and it's rockin. Lot's of people, music and of course, lots of underage drinking. As we walk in with the girls, I get the vibe that the girls are more than welcome( what girl isn't welcome at a party?) but my buddy and I weren't. We're getting a lot of cold stares from all these people we don't know. Debbie and Shari couldn't be having a better time. They've already found some people(I believe 4-5 guys) that they're talking to. Well, after about an hour, Rich and I have had enough. We're ready to go. Debbie and Shari are not. This doesn't bode well because they're our transportation. (This was pre-cell phone days so we couldn't call a buddy to pick us up). Debbie, who's my close friend says "Just hang for a little bit longer and we'll leave soon" Nice. Shari then chimes in "On no, we're not going anywhere. There's a bunch of guys I have yet to meet". Great. Our only way out of this party is going to meet as many male suitors as possible which could take another 3 hours. (This due to the fact that she has to go to a completely different town to meet a male). Rich and I do not want to waste our entire Friday night at a this party. The light bulb goes off in my head(Usually this means something bad is going to happen down the line). I say to Rich "Let's go get your car" He says, "How are we going to get my car?"  I reply, "We'll take Shari's car. Don't worry I'll handle it"  I walk up to Shari and say, "Shari, can I have the keys to your car? Rich told me he actually left a six pack in the back seat" (Yeah, like we would have forgotten that). She reluctantly says, "Fine"  I grab the keys and we go to her car. We get in and I proceed to drive to Rich's house to get his car. Rich says "This isn't good. She's going to know we took her car(which was actually her mother's car) and not be happy about it"  I say "Relax, we'll get your car, get back and she'll never know the difference." We get Rich's car and go back to the party. Well, my internal GPS was just a bit off. We weren't gone for 30 minutes like I thought but more like an hour. No problem. Shari is probably giving her phone number for the 17th time to some random guy. Guess again. We pull up and park both cars. As we're walking back to the party, Debbie and Shari are on the sidewalk in front of the house walking right at us. I could actually see steam coming out of Shari's ears from about 20 feet away. As we get closer, I say "Shari, you won't...." POWWW!!!  Shari punches me right in the face. Whoa! A good shot too!  I shake my head and say "Shari, I totally deserved that" Before I could get another word in, Shari proceeded to call me every name in the book and even names not in the book.  Rich and I left (probably to get ice for my face). Even dumber was that Shari's on again/off again boyfriend( obviously  off again at this time) was Black Belt in Karate. So now for the next 4 months until I go to college, I'm looking over my shoulder waiting to get a round house kick to my head from this guy. Luckily it never happened. Debbie was disappointed in me but we stayed friends. Shari chose not to be friends with me anymore. Shocking.