Funny Things Said to You at the Pool Room

I was home on leave getting ready to be stationed in Taipei, Taiwan and I was in the old pool hall where I worked as a kid when an old guy who fixed the tables saw me playing pool.

He came up and asked me if I was still in the Army and I said, "Bruce, I ain't in the Army, I am in the Air Force."

Bruce had drank about a dozen or more beers by this time and he just smiled and asked, "where you going to be stationed now?" and I said, "Taiwan."

He laughed and said, "Taiwan! I'm gonna tie one on right now."

Bruce was good for "tying one on" pretty much every day. He would come in the first thing in the morning and sip Budwiesers with a shaker of salt all day until he was buzzed really good and then he would call a cab and go home.

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