[geeks] running off roommates....

[Al Potter]

hamellr at heorot.1nova.com said:
> Maybe it was just the fact that I was a music major that ran them
> off...

> 	Heh... I've got a couple of stories for y'all on this topic...

I did summer school at UNC-G a long time ago, and there was a really cool 
dude living in the dorm next door to one of my old high school buddies.  
This was around 1980-81 and John was burning up the end of his Viet-Nam era 
GI Bill.  I should let it drop here that John was a really calm, withdrawn 
former Green Beret Heavy Weapons / Demolitions specialist.

So a few of us are hanging out with John one night, drinking a few beers and 
some bozo on the floor upstairs cuts loose with some really loud, shake the 
windows kind of loud, $music, of a type none of us (particularly John) 
wanted to hear.

John gets this weird, far-away, irritated look on his face.  One of the 
other guys gets my attention and gives me the "watch this" look.  John goes 
to his stereo, pulls out an LP (remember LPs?), puts it on the turntable and 
cranks up to volume to.....  The Ballad of the Green Berets.

It plays to the end.  He turns the stereo off.  Dead silence, as in you 
could hear a pin drop upstairs.


John smiles and says "Works every time."






AL