In the story Greasy Lake, three young men, who considered themselves bad, were out looking for trouble and excitement on their summer break. They were acting irresponsibly, drinking too much alcohol and doing drugs, which caused errors in their decision making. The bad choices they made would somewhere along the line cause their fate to step in, but no one knew where that line was. The boys must face their fate and the reality of becoming responsible adult men.
             The choices we make eventually determined our fate. Being responsible and making responsible choices leads to a better fate. For example, whether someone chooses to be responsible and do their home work determines whether or not they get a good grade in the class. The actions the boys took and the words they said eventually determined their fate. "On this, the third night, we'd cruised the strip sixty-seven times, been in and out of every bar and club we could think of in a twenty –mile radius, stopped twice for bucket of chicken and forty-cent hamburgers, debated going to a party at the house of a girl Jeff's sister knew, and chucked two dozen raw eggs at mailboxes and hitchhikers." If they would have chosen to go to the party at Jeff's sister's friend's house then none of the trouble at Greasy Lake would have happened. Their fate from that night would have been completely different. It doesn't matter what they thought about. It only matters what choices they made and words they said. The irresponsible choice they made to drink alcohol ultimately affected the rest of their choices and actions. Alcohol may have distorted their judgments, which may have lead them to believe they saw Tony Lovett's car, causing them to honk, flash their bights and press their faces on his window on the wrong car. Alcohol also may have affected the narrator's agility, causing him to drop his keys in the dark. These acti
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