First of all, Wild Brew is being held this year on my birthday, July 31st. I already have patron tickets for me and the wife and have a bunch of friends going as well. It is truly one of the top parties in Tulsa every year.<br /><br />My first taste of beer occurred 36 years ago when I was a sophomore at Will Rogers High School. I was in a crowd of about 25 kids at Turner Park next to the school hanging out around dusk. We were listening to eight track tapes of Foghat when some older boys (seniors) showed up with about five cases of beer.  <br /><br />Everybody was given a beer and told to pop the tab and chug it. I was nervous and broke the tab off while barely opening the can. It was barely coming out so I squeezed the can and beer sprayed all over my face and shirt. Everybody laughed at me, but it was cut short as a police officer in a patrol car suddenly showed up.<br /><br />The policeman (I still remember his name, officer Mark Wollmerhauser), made us all tell him our names and when I said mine, replied, &quot;I know your father&quot;. <br /><br />I begged him to not tell my father and he agreed to keep the whole incident quiet for everybody if we promised to clean up the litter in the park and not drink there again.<br /><br />He opened his trunk and gave us trash bags and all of us canvassed the park and picked it clean. He drove off and we didn&#39;t drink beer there again for at least a week.  <br /><br />Michael Patton