posted 01-02-2023 08:17 AM                  

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Originally posted by cdeluca99:
I go to the BMW dealership in West Hampton

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posted 01-03-2023 06:07 PM                  

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Originally posted by garysss:
Come on Bob, it's not suppose to be about someone else. It is about you, I'm sure you can tell some stories. 😂🙈🙊🙉

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Well, there was the time in 1985 I was considered AWOL from the US military while stationed in Sudan during their civil war. There were six of us (5 Army & 1 USAF) attached to Central Command providing arms/training. During the coup the Sudanese military parked a tank on the only runway in Khartoum so the president of Sudan couldn’t return to Sudan from Cairo. A group of protesters attacked the US embassy, burning vehicles parked outside. I was scheduling to depart Sudan but all of this meant I couldn’t get out either. I laid low for several months. When I finally got out and showed up at Kirtland AFB, NM I was informed I was classified “AWOL” and “where the hell had I been?.” I had absolutely no idea I was AWOL as my pay never stopped. In Sudan we had no phone service or internet etc. as we only carried small Motorola “bricks.” The embassy had cable traffic but I never heard anything. If anyone was looking for me they were incompetent in my view. As I explained to my superiors, if I was going to go AWOL someplace, Sudan wouldn’t be high on my list. I eventually got my AWOL status corrected without going to the brig. I even got promoted later.

posted 02-01-2023 06:23 PM                  

I don’t have much for this thread but after reading some thought someone might find this funny or interesting

Was setting up for ISCA show in South Bend Indiana

Had about 45 minutes before they opened the door

Trying to get another coat of wax on the car and this older lady walks up behind me and starts asking questions and talking to me about the car.

I’m trying hard to get the car done & not be rude to this lady. She tells me she really wants a Prowler but her husband wants her to have a Bentley

I’m thinking, “Right”

So I finally look at her & she has a tee shirt on with a line of car & it said The Cars are the STARS

So I start paying a little more attention to her , then she ask “ Do you know who George Barris is?”

Told her Yes

She said “ that’s my husband “

Well she walks off & a little bit later she brings George back to look at my car

So talked with him some, then went to the Playing Mantis booth he was in with his Millennium custom Studebaker

He signed a few things for me & wrote “ Nice Prowler “

That weekend is when I was talking to rep from Playing Mantis to make my car into a Johnny Lightning diecast

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Larry Mayes