Things that start out with here hold my drink are BAD!!

How many of you have done some thing when your judgment is impaired with an adult beverage??? LOL

My Uncle was just over visiting and we got to talking about some things that should have killed us both when we where younger.

1) At a bachelor party we decided to just a have a BIG bond fire and camp/lay around enjoying MAN stuff with MANY adult beverages. LOL No worry about drinking and driving. Standing and walking where hard enough. Then we decided we wanted to go down the STEEP hill close by. Just like you would snow sledding. Now this was in July, not much snow. We got a used rear tractor tire and one of us would stand up in it while the rest of us rolled it down the hill. One small problem. NO flat spot at the bottom of the hill. Just a wooded area. So you had to jump out at the right time or you hit a tree. Picture doing this three sheets in the wind and in the dark. LOL. None of us got seriously hurt But there where a few burses that had to be doctored in the wedding pictures. The women folk where NOT too happy with us.

2) NO,,,,,, I had better not talk about that one. My sons read this every now and then. LOL I am not sure the statute of limitations is out on that one yet. This involved a "new" pickup. A real deep mud hole, much speed. LOL It did take six months to get all the mud out of the frame of the truck.

Forgot to add. These happened in the last 15 year. LOL

My brothers and I didn't even have to be drinking to do stupid stuff like that.

Oh lord, I could wright a book. Just one quick story that fits in a little with yours. Was at a guys house for another guys bachelor party. It was in his walk out basement and outside. He had a little fire outside to sit around about 15 yards from the house. He had a big round bale of straw sitting across the yard he had been using for target practice at different times. A young guy asked earlier in the evening if we could burn the bale on the fire. He said he could if he was able to roll it over and onto the fire himself. He tried, but just couldn't quit get it rolling. Later on about 12, he was going to try it again. I was a little awnry back then. I knew if he could just get it started he would be able to roll it onto the fire. So I snuck over in the dark and helped him just enough to get it off the flat spot. Course he could then roll it by himself easy. He rolled it right on the fire. Didn't take long and it was ablaze. Right about the time the women folk got back from wherever they went. The wife of the guy's place we was at, was not happy. And you know a big bale of straw burns hot and for along time and no putting it out. After a couple more hours the party was kinda over and people were going home. The fire still had along ways to go to burn out. He wasn't to happy about having to stay up all night watching the fire burn out since his old lady got mad. Me and the other younger guy stayed and kept him company. That was one party that turned into an all nighter I wished I hadn't been involved in. The guy thought it was funny tell his wife got mad. Then he was mad at us. It just wasn't to much fun to drink beer and watch a fire with a guy just to be nice and keep him company, while he is mad at ya. Party's sometimes don't turn out good and this one was one of them.

Worst ever "imbibing"? Army, in Special Forces, overseas...fellow A-Team Sgt, he joined SF cuz of the rapid rank, had 12 years in grade as an E-6, made E-7. NOBODY got promoted in SF training, no matter the rank, in the mid 60s....we were E-3 to E-8, all equals in training. Rank came fast once on the A-Team. So he "invited" all Group members to help him celebrate at the EM club.

I went.

Much later, walked across the parade ground, back to the barracks, missed the handrail on the steps between 2nd and 3rd floor, sailed thru the window screen, caught myself on the awning/parapet? that was below the screen....whatever...

Next morning was payday formation...0700...buddies are asking...JMS/MN, why is that screen broken out?

I was kicked into using common sense enough by our dairy cows in my earIy youth when i was sober to attempt any stupidity that couId resuIt in bodeIy harm when i was either sober or intoxicated in my Iater years.
I was the smart one by just hoIding the beer

I did however rode a 500 cc motorcycIe on the highway when i was just 12 years oId

Well I'm only 23 so I only have 2 years experience(ya right). But I went to college and had more then one night I don't remember walking home. We never drove anywhere as all the bars were in walking distance. Lots of other times I was stupid with and with out beverages. I think the night that I broke my ankle and played volleyball on it was one of the worst.

A nameless relative needed black paint to touch up some nicks on his car while I was there with my wife and kids in our van. He said all he needed to do was drill a hole in the top of the black paint spray can to let out the aerosol and the paint would be on the bottom to use. I asked my wife to quickly move the van since it was a breezy day. Do I need to finish?...

I could probably write a book about my adventures with my one BIL. The best one was when he bought a house and it had a flag pole in the front yard. I wasn't in on this one but any ways the pole was 2 inch well pipe. The rope came off the pulley on the top of the pole. So he got out a ladder and climbed to the top of the ladder but the ladder was to short. He got his truck out and put the ladder in the back of the truck then climbed up almost to the top of the pole. The pole bent over knocking him on the ground and the ladder landed on top of him. My sister came out and patched him up and then asked him why he did not pull the one pin out of the bottom of the pole and swing it to the ground to fix the rope. He limped around for a month after that.

I challenged a bull to a fight one time. Woke up in a room with people dressed in white. Doc said I lost the fight.

I was out drinking with the guys one night, namely Jim Beam, Jack Daniels, Johnny Walker and one of them started a fight. After the fight started I found myself all alone and getting the worst end of the fight.

In defense of alcohol, I've done some pretty stupid stuff sober.

Hope this isn't limited to the last 15 years, but going way back, early 20's, hanging with all the wrong people, wrong places...

Sitting in a Jacksboro Highway bar one night, a notorious bad section of road in north Texas, a little blue collar dive where very rarely a stranger dared venture in...

A man comes in, didn't appear to be drunk, making the rounds trying to start trouble with anyone who would accept his challenge.

One of my high school buddies was in there with his big brother who happened to be a member of the Banditos MC gang. I never saw him start any trouble but had heard stories about him, best to stay on his good side...

The stranger makes his way around to the Bandito, a very stupid move! He just stood up, put the fool in a head lock, used his head to very suddenly open the front door, carried him to the parking lot and threw him down, walked back inside.

Next thing, the whole glass front wall (painted over glass storefront) comes crashing down! He's firing through the glass with a simi automatic rifle, no telling how many rounds he got off before squealing down the highway out of sight.

Happened so fast, no chance to take cover. Just by the grace of God no one was hit, just some scratches from the glass. I didn't get anything but scared!

Varying definitions of "3 sheets" for sure LOL ! I've never been a fan of getting intoxicated, sure there were times, but few and far between, which reinforces I just never liked going to far with any of that. Now its just a cold beer or after dinner drink, maybe even a little wine here and there, a little variety and casual moderation is how I live and its enjoyable.

One night a group of us, (while having "a few beers") who enjoy the great outdoors, decided to go up to a look out, the old firetower, was early evening, a grand view etc. Adjacent to that tower, is a repeater tower, hmmm, that looks like a challenge.... I was the first one to the top, looking down at the firetower, not sure how tall, few hundred feet. The others did the same, then climbed back down. It seems the smaller tower with steps, was not enough when you look over and up at the taller one !

In hindsight this was not a smart idea, turns out that repeater belongs to a certain law enforcement entity..... if someone was doing that today, domestic terrorism and who knows what else they could charge you with.

Good workout though, every muscle in my body was sore, so if one had something like this for that purpose, it would definitely keep you fit LOL ! This tower was narrow, so in itself it was like a ladder, but no harness or safety line...... was interesting at the top though, however I do NOT recommend the practice, and now that tower is securely fenced in, back then it was not.

Some links about that particular firetower, and in NYS, the one near us has been restored and is a really great place to view surrounding areas which are small mountains and lots of rolling hills, as you may see in the numerous photos, also some local history about it and a woman observer who was at the ceremony when its restoration was completed.
Firetower

Firetower Article

Firetowers of NYS

yea, the old Jacksboro Highway.....a bit more rowdy than Venus.......I have a sister that is a paralegal for a criminal lawyer in Ft. Worth.....lot of customers created out there for her.....

LOL! You got that right. You don't have to be "3 Sheets" to do something stupid. By God's grace, we don't get ourselves killed or maimed.

Worst was in the barracks in Germany when I came in just a little too far gone to find the barracks holy roller chewing out everyone who came in after a night of drinking. I chased him all over the barracks before the MP's got there. Didn't get in trouble but learned valuable lesson.

Fast forward 10 years and back in Germany. A soldier of mine told me after a payday weekend, "Sgt, I had a great weekend!" I ask "what did you do?". He replied "Sgt I got drunk". So I ask "what else did you do?". He Replied "Sgt, I got so drunk I don't remember". So I ask "how long have you been gay?". He says "Sgt I'm not gay". I replied "well if you got so drunk you don't know what you did how do you know you are not gay?". When I left Germany a couple of years later he was a young newly promoted Sgt. He told me that what I said to him that day didn't stop him from drinking but made him a lot more careful! I ran into him again while I was out-processing for retirement. He'd made SSG by then and he told me he had used the same line with his soldiers!

Rick

I always wondered which was worse. Jacksboro Hwy or North Main.

Thanks Mom, for praying me through that time in my life. So many memories some good, a few not so good. Years later I'm still here. Stan

I'd have to have a spreadsheet to account for all different ways alcohol has gotten me grief. I don't want to publicize it at this point in life.