The Shack

  The Shack was first put into production during Thanksgiving break of The Fiend's senior year of high school.  They were sick of the endless search for people whose parents were out of town so they could have a place to party.  Although, they could occasionally party at Dillon's or Boris's house, they needed more variety.  Then, one day, Morpheus thought of the great idea: To build a shack!  It took a lot of convincing, but eventually the other fiends believed they could do it.  They decided to build a structure in the woods behind one of their houses so it could be their private place to party.  After considering many locations, they settled on a spot behind Sam's house because they could park on the streets in Sam's neighborhood and hike down for about one minute and be completely concealed in the woods.  Through unconventional ways, they acquired construction supplies and began work.  Progress could be seen over Christmas Break as a three walled structure emerged.  The floor was made of pallets covered with carpet.  There were three posts cemented into the bedrock supporting walls made of chain link fence.  The fence was covered with tarp along with the roof.  A fire pit was constructed just outside and chairs were brought down.  Andy and Todd constructed two bars and spray painted the inside.  Everyone pitched in and brought posters, pictures torn out of magazines, and street signs.  They fenced in the area around the fire pit and left one door that they could close and lock up.  To keep it hidden from possible predators (cops), they zip tied cedar branches onto the exterior fence to camouflage it,  routinely referred to the cedar camouflage as, flage.  Used in a sentence: Throw some more flage up it's weak over there.  They built a beer pong table outside the fence, lighting it with Tiki torches, decorating it and signing it.  Trust me, it was badass.  One fateful day Sam approached us and said that his dad had heard about a structure in the green belt at a neighborhood meeting.  He told Sam that it was going to be demolished the next day.  They raced over to the Shack and grabbed as much as they could.  A couple days later, they went back and all that remained was a pile of ashes from the fire pit.  It was a tragic day for all.  Later on they built a Shack 2.0, but that's another story.