Friday of Larry
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You know there are always those people that aspire you to incorporate differnt things in your life. A walk into the hall find people calling me "Crocodile Jeremy", I guess for my sense of adventure. The desire to climb down a cliff, out a ledge, swim in a river in the winter, crawl in a hole in the ground, pick up a snake... etc etc. And in many ways it is Larry I owe this tendancy too!
So Larry stories, there are quiet a few. These stories are best told by Larry, but i'll take a shot at them.
When Larry was in 3rd grade, he had a habbit of asking to go the bathroom. yet once there, he would just hang out, or go roam the halls. The teacher caught on and didn't let Larry go. One day Larry really had to go. Not knowing what to do, Larry found an alcazelter pill in his pocket **enter idea** Larry popped the pill inhis mouth, which made it start to foam. With foam intimating from his mouth, he dropped out of his seat, and started rolling around on the floor. Paniced the teacher came running to the back of the room. "Whats going on?" Larry's friend replied, "I dont know, but Larry was bit by a dog on the way to school today!" Only one conclusion for the teacher, Rabbies! Well after it was a stratitend out, Larry found himself in the hall, not going to the bathroom, but being whipped by 2 teachers at the same time. Now thats good stories.
Quotes such as "Its just around the next bend". What he kept telling my dad the first time we went canoing down the river, and never really found the exit point till it was getting dark.
Or the Jack in the pulpit story (See previous creative writing). Larry and I had been hiking, and found some Jack in the Pulpit. We decided to take some back to enjoy... (The book described it as Peppery). Let me tell you that is the worst thing I've ever put in my mouth (worse than Durian!) I put it in my mouth, started moaning in extreme pain.. Larry asked "Whats wrong, what does it taste like". I replied try it. "The next few hours found both of us moaning in extreme pain". Seems it had a needle shaped crystal in the taproot. So it was like putting a bunch of needles in your mouth and chewing, for several hours. (No way to make it stop).
There are many many stories out there. But we will stop there. ADD YOUR STORIES ABOUT LARRY. ON THIS LARRY FRIDAY!
Comments
I have known Larry since I was a wee tyke. He's always reminded me of the redheaded fellow in the original Time Machine movie.
No real stories...he's just a good guy, and I can hear his very distinct voice in my head every time I think of him :)
All together now..."Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"
D.A.
Posted by: nobodd | December 5, 2003 07:27 AM
I've known larry for a lot of years... oh the stories I could tell. For instance the time we were in service together and he pointed out a tree with fruit on it. I being the "city girl" as he called it had never seen this particular kind of fruit tree before. He said it was a perrsimon tree and it was reported to be one of the sweetest fruits around this time of year. Well you probably already guessed it I bit into that fruit and it just about locked my jaws up it was soooo sour. I've never forgiven you for that larry.
What a guy !!
Posted by: Karen D | December 5, 2003 07:57 AM
i just met larry recently. but i found him to be quite a character. we went on this hike around a lake a top a mountain. larry was a good leader, even though we somehow missed a turn and never made it to the tower. but the hike was superb. beautiful scenery. he didn't try and pull a joke on me, but thats prolly cause i haven't known him long enough. he did however try to kid Dwight about splitting his cedar walking stick that Dwight hand wittled...and i htought that was kinda dangerous...haha. so i'll call larry, Brave Larry.
Posted by: tommy | December 5, 2003 10:21 AM
Larry's definitely the man. I've not known him long, but anyone who laughs that much is cool in my book. Larry should come back down and visit. I remember talking about shows, things to sell, and a ton of other stuff, and honestly, my cheeks were hurting when I left. That there's good stuff.
Posted by: Mindless Intelligence | December 5, 2003 12:14 PM
Um, I'm late seeing this but a couple things that stand out right away about Larry is when he made us late getting home cuz he got us stuck in the mud with his truck while going fishing (we had a tractor pull it out), threw mud at me from head to toe on a river trip, and late getting us home again cuz his car blew up on Kingsport Hwy (he always reminds me that I took my left over pizza and ran away from the car as fast as I could)....and there's lots more stories cuz he was a crazy guy in the day.
Posted by: Steph | December 8, 2003 07:37 AM