we dismissed what we would call growing pains as laziness in thought , a lack of drive and a lack of eventfulness in life ; it was having everything that made his mind go off the rails in the most predictable way , and caused all sorts of things like his kleptomania and his tendency to hang out in neighborhoods of houses with dirty rain gutters and taped windows , where he clearly didnt belong and didnt fit in , and car crash after car crash , a shiny cherry-red brand new whatever-car of the moment with dents and bruises and scratches .