There is a book called Look Me in the Eye about an electronics engineer who ends up working for Pink Floyd and sees all kinds of craziness like that, even though he's not into it either. He went from a boring job working in a toy company to la vida loca with rock stars with similar antics to what you saw.

Whhoooeeee! That must have been something hard to get out of your nostrils... That's some hard work!

I would have been terrified that whole summer! The bags under my eyes would have been the size of steamer trunks... Wow, it is amazing anybody stayed... Glad you all weren't targets, also.. 8-(

It does boggle the rational brain... GhB's!!!

I love reading these! They're so interesting! I am having a hard time imagining young people doing any of these things now, though. Too many regs and not enough drive, it seems.

Hehe! That wasn't the only time that happened, I'll say that... Panties on the floor, unopened booze which I was given, bags of...illicit substances, which I tossed. Not into that, really!
We had a band once and they were really great. Fun group. :-)

Yes, the pummeler, not the pummeled, would have been preferable. Not sure I would have been capable of holding the shield. I might have banged back..

When I was in the Navy I blew up aircrews in the Low Pressure Chamber. The most fun was the rapid decompression training. I also trained them on the ejection seat trainer, and of course had a few rides on it myself. As a private investigator I saw a lot of weird....a lot. Probably the craziest thing was when I was a drug dog handler with Customs. My dog and I crawled on our bellies to the nose of a 40 foot container of salted goat skins from Jamaica mon. I had to wash my uniform several times to get the smell out. Edited to fix typos.

Wow, I'd have been armed 24/7 doing that. Clever way to pay the bills, though.

'Almost Famous' comes to mind reading this. Not Snow White are you , OA? Wink wink nudge nudge.

OMG I would have been laid out on the slab beside her... That's funny and awful all at once!

There's just some things you don't want to know.

I don't know about a girlfriend buying me the sheep. What message does that convey?

Had a friend in Portland preparing to make a life of sailing. Just before the going away party, he lost the partner that was going on the first sail to Hawaii with him. When we found out , we ran down and bought him an inflatable girlfriend. Everyone at the party signed it and we took the stage and mike for a few minutes to introduce him to the new sailing partner and life preserver we'd found for him.

When I saw the inflatable sheep in the shop, I almost dropped my jaw. I just couldn't imagine.

What would the Dr. diagnose your snorting as?

Hahahahaha. OK, next lunch at Stella's you have to tell some stories.

I had a Prof that had written his own book, but for some reason, the Dean had replaced it on the required list. First day of class, the Prof told all of us, I'm not going to teach from the book they told you to buy. If you want to pass, you'll have to go buy my book.

Funny, when I went for my masters a couple years later, the required book was the old Prof's.

A dip in the old salty does tend to change your fashion appearance. But when you get pulled out, you don't care much.

It is rampant. I've got some of that in my family, too.

Great story, Herb. Living through that had to make life more savory.

A flashlight and a radio with a 15 yr old girl, against a murderer?

I like that 'keep her sane' staff. I can think of several projects I had where I could have used that staff. But holding the shield while someone needed to 'keep sane'?

The backwoods Baptist and ignorance I grew up around.

shades of "the north pole?" -- j
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you had a smart Mom!!! -- j
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we had 'em dancing until the police ran us off.
and we "always never" took breaks. . they did,
but we didn't. . this was considered strange
by the powers that be. . no breaks? . Why?
We Don't Want To Stop This!!!
we ran hard from about sundown (6ish) until about 2 a.m. -- j
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