I had to work last Saturday. The phone rang just enough during the day to keep me from nodding off. Even other agents weren't showing property and trying to maneuver clients around springbreakers!
I started the day off by getting some keys made for a new listing (thank you Jesus and Baby Sister!) and went by the ACE Hardware Store on my way in to the office. I was laughing with the checker about the fact that they were even open. Springbreakers were everywhere and it wasn't even 9 in the morning yet. She said that they had been really busy. The day before, she said they had made about 14 keys for breakers who'd been on the island less than 24 hours and had already lost their room keys. The motel owners charge you a hefty fee to replace a key. They did better paying a couple of bucks at the hardware store!
That wasn't the only money not going for cheap tee shirts and plastic beads. I had driven by one of the many souvenir shops and noticed that they were selling "beer bongs" for $.99. I never did drugs, but I thought bongs were for smoking dope. I figured that these smartie pants college kids had figured a way to smoke beer. Who'da thunk it??!! I mentioned this phenomenon to the checker and the manager who was making my keys. They said that bongs are tubes with a funnel at one end and someone's mouth at the other. Partygoers pour beer in the funnel and it goes directly into the swallower. That little sport has been enlarged to having the swallower on the ground and the tube rising upwards of a second or third story balcony. Now isn't that just about the most stupid thing you've ever heard of? I guess they never consider the choking and possible drowning that could occur. And by the way, the manager said that they had sold tubes in 30' and 40' lengths. Checker reported that they had sold out of funnels.
All of this at a hardware store! Wonder if the shell shops are doing as well?
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That is funny and I remember having a few fun times myself somewhere or other. In the Aggie Band my freshman year, at the end of the year, yea, we survived, beer bust, Brazos County being dry then we went to the bridge on the Brazos River, just across the county line and had it. Somewhere we got the idea to attack our Commanding Officer, for fun of course, grabbed him, dunked him in the river seventy times, we were the Class of '70, and he nearly drowned. Later, still having fun, we noticed tadpoles in a pool. We started inhaling them to see who could swallow the most whole. One guy swallowed 23. They were really slightly past the tadpole stage, had feet by then. He puked up fourteen of them, one of which got stuck in his nose and you saw the feet dangling from one of his nostrils. Even though nine were still in his belly, which wasn't first place anymore, we still made him our champion.
But on the other hand. Kids here from the First Baptist Church of Bryan are spending the spring break in nearby Hearne, helping to rebuild a Black Baptist Church that was arsoned a month ago.
Both are fun, but . You know.
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