My dad did this, when he was just out of high school. He wanted to get my mom’s attention; she was at the high school dance, with another boy.

But the dance was in the basement, and mom didn’t hear him.  She did hear about it the next day, when she discovered he’d returned to the tiny Iowa airfield to find the waiting police.

He was that James Dean type, Harley with sidecar, and ciggies rolled up in his tshirt sleeve, and her mom and did didn’t want her to have anything to do with him.

How did that work out for them?