Perfect Target

By Agnes Collado, January 19, 2019 —  My friend Terry and I went to her class’ art show at the Community College of Philadelphia, and we left our sons at my apartment. Terry’s son Matt was fourteen, and my son Jay was twelve. Now Jay got all sorts of awards for good behavior, and Matt wasn’t a troublemaker either. But somehow, the both of them got together and started throwing water balloons at the people below. At one point, they saw one of the other residents, and old man in a walker with his wife, and they thought, “Perfect target.”

They dropped the water balloon, and it hit the edge of the walker and the old man lost his balance, fell down to one knee. His wife started screaming at both boys, saying she was going to call the cops on them both. So when Terry and I came home, the whole city of cop cars were there! And as if that weren’t bad enough, Terry and I went to the police department to get the police report. And then the lady called the landlord to have us evicted. But the landlord told that lady that he never had a problem with us and he wasn’t going to evict us over a water balloon.