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Speaking of fire extinguishers, there is another story in
there also. A whole bunch of use used to work at Mai Tain restaurant, which was
fancy place on long pier on North Beach over on other side of the harbor Bridge
in Corpus Christi, TX in 1975. Big brother Tommy, along with me, Cruz, Larry the
Hawaiian, probably about 8 of us. The kitchen closed at 9:00pm, and of course
took abuot 2 hours to clean. The owner's wife, Mr. Seltzer's wife, can't
remember her name, had been sitting at the bar drinking these fancy as run
drinks, not 'Mai Tai's' whihc was the signature house drink, I believe Planters
Punches, whihc are potent. Well, about 10:30 she decides she was hungry so
Seltzer told Cruz to 'fire up the grille again quickly' just for her. He was
pissed and rightly so. She wanted a steak, and him and my brother Tommy had it
on a pair of tongs over the back kitchen exit, of which was over the side of
building on pier, so hung out over water, but the steps went to beach.
They stood there having a community piss on her steak before
cooking it. Seltzer let them have cocktails since they were literally working
overtime however. But she came into the kitchen after eating it and told them it
was the best steak, she had ever ate, and Cruz could not contain himself and
that Mexican was red as a beet as was my brother Tommy, and they were all
laughing out loud. She was laughing too, hell, she was drunk as hell, even after
the steak.
I may add that we used to pull tricks on Larry the Hawaiian
also. We would all get off work at this place, and drive down to 'the dumps'
which was along the Nueces river tidal basin about 5 miles away. We would gather
up firewood from palates and other stuff the river washed up and make a big
bonfire and stand around and drink until dawn many times, especially on Saturday
nights. Sometimes when someone would finish a berr they would pee in can, or
bottle, and everyone except Larry knew where that specific one was in the
coolers. Big coolers. It would get icy cold, then someone would give it to
Larry. 'Hey, Larry, ready for a cold one?' And Larry was always ready and would
open it, take a big swig, and well, all of us are roaring laughing while Larry
vomits into the bonfire. Sometimes he would put it out, one time he fell in and
that wasn't funny as he had big 70s hair, so we must have wasted about 4 beers
(real beers) putting out his hair.
Eddie Stakes'
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