I too drove Woody home to Snook one night circa 1982. I think his last name was Schoeneman. However I took him to an actual house, not a mobile home. It was his parent's house.
Before I go further bear in mind I've lived in B/CS 42 out of my 49 years...many nights spent at The Chicken....so he got to where he recognized me.
Anyway, we went out Highway 60 past the 4-way intersection with Hwy. 50 (Clay, Independence) and he told me to take a right down this dirt road that went through a milo field. The fields had recently been plowed, nice orderly dirt rows. All of a sudden he shouted "turn right now!!!!!" I said "Damn, man...through the field? Is this your field"? He shouted back affirmatively and the repeated his order to turn into the field. Figuring I was almost lost now and I'd never get out of there, I did as he said. Ran my truck through those dirt rows doing about 30mph...it was pitch black but as I crossed each row I could see thousands of "seedlings" about 6 inches high just starting to sprout between the rows. Tore the place up but what the hell...the guy was going postal.
Anyway, after about 2 minutes I start to see lights through a house window. He instructs me to pull right up to the front door. Decent size house, about 2,000 sq. feet., wood siding, older, on pier and beam foundation. Big porch outside.
We walk in (about 1am) and his mom comes in the living room to see what's going on. Turns out she and I recognize each other from Sbisa...she worked there. Then she thanks me abruptly for driving him home and then tears into him for being drunk. Woody shouts back that he wants her to cook him and me some sausage. "I want some sausage! I want some sausage!" he shouts several times. She yells back in typical German frugality "Do you know how much sausage costs these days!?!?!".
I figured it was time to leave and I politely excused myself. By the way I never saw his dad that night, at the Chicken or at home even though he was definitely still alive then. The only problem with leaving was once I got outside I couldn't figure out how to get out of there. It was either retrace my tracks through the field or take the driveway which led to somewhere I didn't know. I took the driveway and ended up on FM 50...so I was good to go.
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Another story, early 1980's. Sometimes I would spend New Years Eve in Snook at a small beer joint called Cecil and Maxine's. Cecil, about 60-65 years old at this time, fertilized cotton and grain fields during the day, ran a beer joint at night.
This particular New Years Eve, Woody was there with his dad. On NYE, Cecil always proclaimed that would be the only evening he wouldn't work the bar and you had to serve yourself. You were to walk behind the bar, get your beer out of the cooler, serve yourself, and put your money in the jar (honor system). I had been blasted on a couple of NYE's there, along with most all the other customers who were typically farmers over 50 years old, with a odd exception like me now and then who was in his mid 20's. Hey, I liked the place...it was different, and I liked bs'ing with the farmers.
Woody is ripped pretty good this evening also.
About midnight Woody gets into an argument with Cecil. Woody says it's midnight "right now" and tells Cecil he needs to play Auld Lang Syne on the jukebox. Cecil says it's not midnight yet. Woody is persistent and starts escalating the argument. Next thing I know, in my drunken stupor I see a dozen drunk old men heading out the front door. I go outside and there in the middle of Main Street is Cecil laying on top of Woody, his Phillips 66 Fertilizer shirt with "Cecil" on the name patch, wrinkled and bunched up with shirt tail hanging out. Oh, and a bunch of drunk farmers standing around them in a circle, not saying anything...just silence all around. At this time I had an epiphany, my intoxicated mind cleared for about 10 seconds, and I just shook my head and said to myself "What the hell did you do to arrive at this intersection of time and space"?
No punches were thrown. Cecil just laid on top of him and finally broke the silence with "It's not midnight yet, dammit. Do you get it now?".
[This message has been edited by AgDotCom (edited 1/25/2008 7:35p).]