I posted these 7 years ago:
”Dear Lord I hope that photo of me under a car at Daytona Beach isn't floating around somewhere! Let's just say I was more than "3 sheets to the wind" when the gang rolled me under the car to keep me from being completely baked! Oh, thank goodness for no mobile phones, video cameras, pc's...in other words...What happened in Daytona...stayed in Daytona!!”
Then this:
Another tale I will never, ever forget. I have to remember because so many are starting to leave us. There are fewer each year to recount the high jinks. Friends I've had for over 55 years.
Anyhow, another trip to Daytona, but this time it didn't stay in Daytona! We all had drove over on Friday night. It was party time! There's something worse going to sleep drunk...it's waking up, with a hangover, sand all over you, the salt air and sun beating down on you! Well, you know the old saying, "the hair of the dog". Trouble is it didn't work no how many times I tried it followed by water chasers. Needless to say by Saturday evening I was out of my gourd! They couldn't get me sober. We were headed home, but they couldn't deliver me at the house in the shape I was in. Evening turned into night. Still not sober. They didn't know what to do with me until one of the guys who had graduated got a bright idea. He was planning to go to mortuary school and was at the time working at the local funeral home. You guessed it! There they took me. The gals stripped me down to my undies (I think it was just them. He would never tell me) and plunged me into a tub of ice cold water. I half way remember that part, but I definitely remember the part where he said "The next step is to take her to see the dead." I came straight up out of that water and made a bee line for the door! I was sober! I was sober I think! It ended with me spending the night with my best friend. She had called my mom earlier and told her I had become sick from too much sun. Yeah, right! Too much sun did me in!”
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