Originally Posted by W3WN
Your colorful experience clearly tops mine. So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you...
The thread dredged up a strange memory from that time period. There was a former co-worker of mine who was a little... off. He acted sometimes like your best bud, others like your worst nightmare. (Today I'd think he was either on or off his meds depending on the mood du jour).
Right after the Johnstown Flood had hit, he was all excited about the thought of going down there to help in the clean-up... just figured we'd drive down, show up, and be put to work as conquering heroes, or something like that. I didn't think that was such a good idea, and I wasn't about to quit, crappy as the job was. Besides, I was more than half afraid that he might slit my throat or something one night... yeah, he was that scary when he was in a dark mood.
Last time I saw or heard from him... it was the week before Valentines Day, I was in the student union building helping the K3CR guys collect radiograms for VD from the students (remember the year... this was LONG before the internet as we know it, let alone cell phones). He showed up, saw me, and openly threatened to punch me out or worse for harassing his girl friend. He wanted me to "meet him outside" right then and there. I simply told him it wasn't me... when he asked why, I told him that I didn't even know his girlfriend's name, let alone anything about her, so how could it be me? At that point the Campus Police showed up & asked him to leave... I never saw him again. Thank goodness.
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