OMG


Great read.

You should get drunk more often and write a book of short stories.

 

Folks, Thank you very much This thread has made my day. I have been in Iraq for the past 4 months and this 4th of July weekend was a bummer 'cause all the relatives had a small family reunion back home. When I stumpled upon this little jewel of a vet visit and the author's drunken state and following escapades I felt so much better and feel like laughing, only there ain't no1 around to hear....... Thanks for the lifting of my spir**** and I'll be lurking in the Gen Discussion area more often after this....

 

God Bless you, Fred.
Next 4th of July, you get drunk, I read.

 

Someone get drunk and get on here next 4th.

That was awesome.

 

I can't drink now adays due to a medical issue but I can relate a story that happened a few years back.....I was a Power plant Apprentice in my second year working for the Panama Canal Electrical Division. It was the end of the second year of training (sophmore in school), and the graduating class of apprentices had a big blow-out party on their street (block party). The cops never bothered anyone at the party but be sure you weren't to far gone when you left the party. We started parting around 3:00pm and by 10:00pm I didn't recall anything.

The next afternoon around 2:00pm I awoke and was hungry as a ****. I woke up my roomy and asked him to take us to the cafateria for something to eat. this is when things started to get strange, he said on the way back from the party around 1:00am we were rearended by another drunk from the same party doing about 50mph according to the cops. My roomy had a VW Beatle!!!! and we had removed the back seat several days before and as I had gotten very drunk I had crawled in the back and crashed.

The cops came up to the VW and asked my roomy and another guy who were in the front if they were alright. They said they were ok and then the cop spotted me in the back and thought that I was dead as the rear of the VW and the engine were almost ontop of me! Tl shorten this a bit my roomy told me the cops pulled me out and we were loaded in asedan and taken to our place. Roomy said that every time they tried to get me to stand up all I would do was collapse like a rag doll! Said I spoke very incoherantly also......

They determined there wasn't anything physically wrong with me so they left us at the apartment. Okay now I wake up hungry and roomy tells me this story! Like any smart guy I tell him to quit pulling my leg and I go down stairs to see his VW, No VW in the parking lot. I still didn't believe him. Finally he convinces me to let him drive my jeep and we go get some food. All the time I am thinking he decided to hitch a ride because he was to drunk to drive and we would go by and pick up his VW. We leave after eating and swing by the police station and he shows me a wrecked car, which upon closer scrutiny turns out be his VW!

Ok I believe him now!!! I look in the back seat area and there is onlya foot or less beatween the front seat backs and the mangled mess of the rear end, with the engine and transaxle twisted in there.

Still to this day I have ZERO recall of the evening and accident, maybe it was a good thing. But roomy would always tell the story of how I frieghtened the S**T out of the cop who had witnessed the entire accident from accross the street!

I told roomy we needed to go get a drink and down to the bars we went!!!! I remember going home after that

30 Years later I can still tell the story and remember the gut wrenching feeling when I saw that VW in the police station impound lot........

 

Glad your still with us Fred.

 

Sorry to revive this but I think it's worth it, phukin funny thread there raoul, I'm tearin up over here reading off to my gf as I go along. Too phunnay. You should really do something like Tucker Max's done.

 

Haven't seen Raoul posting in a while. Somebody must have let the goats out and he hasn't rounded them all up yet

 

When they announced the Virginia plant closing a cou0ple of weeks ago, Raoul got very upset, said he was finished with Ford. he has not been back since. i messaged him asking if everything was ok and he said he was dealing with some serious issues in his life right now. i wished him the best of luck, not heard anything since.

 

I hope he's ok. Raoul is the bomb. I would get on here some days just to read his posts. He always makes me smile.

Good luck.

 

He is truely one of a kind. We do miss him.

 

Yep did the same blue....wonder how many messages he got from us nosy people

 

Maybe that is why he hasn't been back, too busy answering the IM's.