Back when I was in eighth grade I was having a simple sleepover with two of my friends. For this purpose, their names will be Alexa and Gabby. Gabby asked me if she could invite one of her other friends, Gia,  to the sleepover. After a hair of convincing I was swayed and decided to invite her.  Once she was here, she proposed we go to Wawa however, she suggested that we go at 2:00 am. While I wasn’t too keen on the idea, Alexa and  Gia managed to convince me and Gabby.  We waited until my parents were asleep and carefully walked out of the house.

We eventually made it to Wawa and got some food and drinks. However, Gia and Gabby walked off withouts us and decided to stop at CVS to use the bathroom. While me and Alexa made our way to CVS to catch up with them we heard a siren. The cops pulled the two of us over and asked us a few questions. What is your name? How old are you? Where are your parents? At first I felt a sort of calm that no matter what this was going to work out. However, as we continued talking to the cops my nerves started to get to me. As we were explaining the situation to the cops, Gabby and Gia are walking by on the opposite side the world. The cops suspected that they were trying to walk by without stoping because they couldn’t hear us calling to them. After calling them, they realized and came over.

During this time with the cops they told us about a curfew law. That minors are not allowed to be out past 10:00 pm without a guardian. While I now understand why the law is in place, at the time I didn’t know that this law existed. The cops ended up calling our parents and they came and got us. Thankfully the cops let us all off on a warning.

We were very thankful that no one got hurt. While we all got in trouble with our parents we learned that some laws are put in place for our own safety.

Overall, we had gotten ourselves in a dangerous situation. While we were young I’m lucky that no one got hurt and that the police were kind enough to let us off. Curfew laws can often vary between townships and counties. Our curfew laws were Sunday through Thursday, 10:00 pm to 6:00 am, Friday and Saturday 12:00 am to 6:00 am. These laws are put in place to make sure that kids aren’t going to get hurt or put into bad situations.  While I understand curfew laws are not the most risky laws to break they have a meaningful purpose. Their existence insures that officers can help keep children safe. This by either calling their parents or driving them home. Curfew laws have a useful and precautious use in today’s society. The curfew laws are put into place to protect children from getting into a bad situation