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"Hey, let's make ourselves pass out," I said. By that time, it wasn't as much fun as it had been in the early summer when we first discovered it, but it was a hell of a lot better than what we were doing. Vince was up for it, so was Richard, but Mike, the guy jumping off the tower, said, "What the fuck are you talking about?"

"Holy crap, you haven't been knocked out before?" Vince asked. "No," was the response. Mike had been at his mom's house all summer, so he hadn't been in on all the fun we had been having.

"Dude, you gotta try this. Watch, we'll show you."

Vince and I got off the tower, stood in the grass at the center, and I did the customary ten deep breaths. I squeezed my eyes shut and held my breath so hard that if they hadn't been shut, they'd have probably popped out of my head. Then I felt my friend clamp down on my arms in front of my chest, and suddenly, as if there were nothing more natural in the world, there was a giant lobster, climbing around a lobster cage, and I was under the ocean with seaweed growing from the sandy bottom under my feet.

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