Stories printable and unprintable come flooding back.
Dave Carland reminds me of the Trobers fateful return from Inter-Varsity in Perth (1972 - ed), where the airline informed us that anybody who was pissed would not be allowed on the plane home - something to do with our behaviour on the way over to Perth the previous Saturday night!
A certain Craig Nelson was clearly in that inebriated state, along with the rest of us, and we all breathed a sigh of relief, with us all on board, as the plane began to taxi towards the runway
It was at that moment when young Craig emptied his beer intake over the back of the seat in front and the hostess ran shrieking to address the situation and inform the pilot to stop the plane.
Whilst clearly under some pressure, Craig was ever quick on his feet and exclaimed - no problems love, must have eaten a bad piece of fish at the farewell reception.
We all made it back alive.
Thanks for reminding me of that incident, Brendan. There was a bumper issue of 'Rort' all about that IV trip, including us making the front page of 'The West Australian' for being kicked out of a hotel for supposed loutish behaviour.
ReplyDeleteOur team manager, Darryl Salmon, was quoted in shock at this decision, 'All the boys went to the movies'.
In any event, we found a much cheaper pub where they encouraged us to get pissed.
By the way, would that be the same Dave Carland who was shining a torch out of the plane window, looking for the Nullabor Nymph?
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