That’s Amurkin! I actually saw it spelled that way in a HIGH SCHOOL Newsletter from a small town about 50 years ago. A friend of mine said his Dad told him for that town it was par for the course. Back in the 90’s I ended up working on a job with a guy from there. He was a 10 Watt mind in a 100 Watt world! Sharp as a new marble…
I needed a good laugh after today and this memory did it!
Our High School shop teacher had a big bunch of home brewed beer blow up in his closet. The smell became one with his clothes because it dried into them while they were away on a 3 day weekend. And it lasted for many weeks! To a bunch of teenage boys it was great fun. To our fuddy-duddy Principal it was scandalous! To our good ol’ boy beer chugging Superintendent it was hilarious! All these years later, it’s still so funny to me I’m having a hard time typing this because I’m laughing so hard.
I’ll be waiting till we do meet, and thank you for being a friend!
Monday was my friend’s B-Day that I’ve known the longest, He 2 days shy of being 6 months older than me. Last time I saw him was when drove 2 hours in his truck & a BIG trailer to help me move. That was 4 years ago the 26th.
Tomorrow, Friday the 6th will be my buddy TBC’s 69th B-Day. Last Sunday was 50 years since I met him. In all that time since we have NEVER had a cross word between us. How many people can say that about a friend? No matter how far down I sunk back in the 90’s, he NEVER gave up on me. Always had a ear to listen, a word of advice & hope, NEVER talked down to me. He’s been in Heating & Air since he was a pup, the last 40 as the owner of his own growing company. 16-18? years ago my AC window unit went out. With my MS getting hot is not only miserable, it can be very dangerous. I called him & he said can you get it to the shop? My landlords 2 flunkies loaded my AC in my Ranger & I went there. 3 of his crew, 2 of them close friends of mine had finished a job & were at the shop. Unloaded my AC, checked it out & pronounced it DOA. Told the guys to grab a unit from under a shelf, blow it out & test it. Cut some extra filters for it, told Mark & George to put it in the company truck & go put it in. What do I owe ya TBC? Nothing Beanie. I had it, you needed it.
Guy Clark sang Old friends, you can’t beat ’em. Yup!
A friend of mine had a sister who rode one of those Vespucci Scooters…