| Funny Story from CPL One night when we were in Dallas last week at the CPL we decided to pay out respects to the world's largest Hooters. Of course, Dallas is a freakin' heat trap; one time at 4:30am it was 92°F outside! So the three of us and one of the CAL admins walked the five blocks or so to Hooters where we promptly ordered a ton a beer and got messed up. I think I had two pitchers, although the memory is a bit fuzzy.
On the way back to the hotel we decided to stop at a liquor store and pick up some more booze for later. I grabbed a small bottle of Jack and was drunk enough already, so I began to consume that as well. We got about two blocks away from the hotel when, in a moment of drunken brilliance, I threw my almost-empty whiskey bottle at a passing white Jaguar. Big mistake. The bottle crashed against the rear of the car, broke into a million pieces, and suddenly red & blue flashing lights were flicked on. An undercover cop car! We booked it through Daley plaza (where JFK was assasinated), ran through the reflection pool, across some train tracks, and back through the back entrance of the hotel. Meanwhile the cop and one of his buddies were patroling the area looking for us. We snuck back into the room where the paranoia set in and I decided I would hide under the bed. I immediately passed out and woke up late the next morning with a very, very bad hangover. It took a bloody mary to get me functioning again. :-) |