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Armybrat

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  1. Track speed on the football field?
  2. When it started, my roommate & I were having burgers at the Holiday House on The Drag. Wondering what all the sirens were zooming by, we walked back through the covered passageway to the parking lot where some other “spectators” hollered at us to take cover. That’s when we heard loud gunfire from the Tower, and looked up to clearly see him leaning over the parapet shooting down. We only stayed there for a few minutes, then when Whitman moved around out of sight we drove out of the lot over to the Plantation House restaurant lot on 19th for a “safer” view. Then we drove over to our West Campus apartment to watch it on live TV. When we saw the white flag waving (by the cops on the observation deck) we ran from the apartment eastward on 24th to the Drag, down to the Co-op, then up the West Mall to the Tower, where hundreds of people had gathered & were milling around. I saw an older guy, obviously a Texas Ranger in a suit - with Stetson and a badge on his belt - walking around with a Thompson. Also saw a Daily Texan student “reporter” with a notepad in hand and somewhat comically with an old Army helmet on his head.
  3. Muff Wheeler - shot through her hand while bending over to help her two friends after they were hit fatally by Whitman. It took her years to recover her mental state.
  4. 1 August 1966. I was there watching it happen while crouched behind a car in a parking lot on 21st close to Littlefield Fountain. It most certainly affected Austin more than the Yogurt Shop tragedy. The memory of stepping over pools of blood immediately afterward on the sidewalk near the Co-op and on the South Mall still brings back chills.
  5. What they found in Fort Knox when they inspected
  6. Nah, Mrs. Brat’s old T-shirt celebrates a more memorable event than the Relays…
  7. In the early 1970s when my oldest son was about four years old, the wife & I took him down to the old Austin Mueller airport where the Goodyear Blimp was on display. The public was invited to park on surrounding streets and walk onto the airport grounds off to the side away from the runway area where it was tethered to the ground. We went that morning along with hundreds of other families - and as we walked across the grassy grounds approaching the blimp it got bigger & bigger. It really was an impressive sight, and my son gawked wide-eyed in awe loudly exclaiming two or three times, “Gawd damn, gawd damn….” while several people sterted staring at the profane little kid. I was holding in the laughter, but Mrs. Brat was mortified and tried to pretend she didn’t know that mouthy boy.
  8. I got this T-shirt for working the 1964 Texas Relays as a student volunteer.
  9. The page has been stuck together for generations. Jizz jar out front shoulda told ya.
  10. Armybrat

    Getting old sucks

    Very scary experience this afternoon. At 8am we dropped off my Civic at the Honda Service center close to the Interstate in Round Rock 15 minutes from the house. We’ve done that route literally hundreds of times in the past 30 years (car dealerships, restaurants, hospitals, shopping). We picked it up at 3:30pm, then I drove out of the service place with wife intending to follow me home. After getting out on the street to the intersection I noticed she was slow leaving her parking space, but the light turned green and I had to get going. A half block up the road I discovered I had left my cellphone at the service desk, so immediately tried to circle back thru a McDonalds, but was forced to make a U-turn. Rush hour traffic was starting and was pretty heavy. Anyway, retrieved the phone and headed home quickly to try to catch up with her. Arrived home…and no wife. I knew she had no plans to make any stops, so I became very worried and got back in my car to backtrack to look for her. I called her cellphone to find out where she was. When she answered she said “I’m lost and have no idea where I’m going”. Of course that scared me shitless, especially when I asked her if she saw any familiar business buildings or street signs. She answered in the negative - and her voice was getting very weak. I was ready to call 911, but then she saw a road sign and a school campus, so I had a rough idea where she was. I told her to pull into any business parking lot, describe it to me, then wait for me to come get her to lead her home. I found her at a gas station by the Cracker Barrel restaurant and had her follow me home. On the way back I noticed she was driving slightly erratically, then it dawned on me she was probably having another one of her low glucose “spells” like she had just before Thanksgiving two years ago. We had to call 911 for that one because she looked like she was going into a catatonic state. Then I remembered she only had her chocolate breakfast drink before we left the house that morning, and no lunch because she went to the 12:30pm Ash Wednesday Mass at her church (fasting before communion). Plus she ate nothing afterwards. Luckily we were in our neighborhood by that time and she safely made it into our driveway. Once inside she sat on the couch just staring at nothing, so I brought her some grapes to eat, then one of her power bars. After that she became more alert and responsive. I laid down the law that from now on she has to have something more substantial for breakfast and to eat a sandwich for lunch, just to keep herself going until dinner. She can be very stubborn about that - in fact when I heated up a pot of leftover spaghetti and meat sauce, she would only eat a few small spoons of the pasta. I am at wit’s end about this attitude- and it isn’t doing my mental state & blood pressure any good. As I said, it scared me more than I’ve ever been. Told her if this is the way she wants to be, then we were going to move into the nice assisted living community next to our neighborhood.
  11. Armybrat

    Getting old sucks

    Shooter, how are you doing?
  12. I’m sure he gets a lot of takers.
  13. My youngest son is 52. His longtime live in girlfriend is 68.
  14. Last pair of overalls I saw in person was in 1984 - my granddad’s former employee mechanic at his rural Missouri auto repair shop.
  15. Don’t see any moms or cougars at the League in Avery Ranch….
  16. I do not recognize that hand sign in context with aggy. Can somebody please help me out here?
  17. My nephew, now retired, was a longtime Kerrville police officer. Johnny had the privilege of sitting in the back seat of his patrol cruiser on at least one occasion that I am aware of.
  18. This page needs some “pron”….
  19. Wasn’t there a band by that name at the last SXSW festival?
  20. Same son who owns the red ‘59 Apache. (Prom night 1990, and college dropout 1994)
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