Hey,
it's Waters from the
Waters Week of Call.
Oh, what a tunes day morning we had talking about the songs that trigger memories that have a great story involved.
All right, Trucker Todd, let's hear yours.
We had a class reunion and there was a gal I probably had a chance with that senior prom.
Yeah?
Too bashful.
Yeah, I
can tell you're
that type.
At the class reunion, she was all dolled up, long, cool woman in a black dress.
Oh, my goodness.
Did you get up the nerve at that point in time?
You did get a chance to dance with her a couple of times.
And then I'm sure you went off and had a good three-four year relationship and then you dumped her.
No.
Okay.
Just went there separate ways until 40th.
And then you saw her
again?
You saw her again and I was just, thank goodness I didn't go forward with that.
Really?
So it started off as a long cool woman in a black dress and then came to separate ways by journey and at the end, don't do me like that, maybe.
Can't fight this feeling by Ario.
Well, but there's a girl involved.
I saw Ario concert when I was a freshman in college at the Unido and this girl behind me couldn't see over me.
So I helped her stand.
Bleach your behind me?
Yeah, yeah, then?
That song started and I reached for her hand.
And she screamed?
Followed me home.
And she followed you home?
Yup.
Was she a couple of feet behind you so it was creepy or was she still holding your hand?
She had her hand over my shoulder, the whole concert
and stuff.
So a romance was born?
Uh-huh.
And then we said goodbye, she went to her apartment and we...
Talk the next day.
And then what came of that?
The future of you two, what?
She graduated,
so
I had to
say goodbye.
Always find a dumb girl, D-Man.
They don't graduate, they never move away.
That just sounded silly.
I just a dope.
It got me laughing, man.
I love that.
New Year's Eve, 1989.
I was a senior in high school.
I was dating the prom queen.
I was batting away out of my league.
Look at you.
We went to a New Year's Eve party and had quite a bit to drink.
Came back to her place and things got kind of romantic.
Take my breath away by Berlin came on.
And then you're my obsession by an emotion.
Boy.
Whenever I hear those two songs, it always brings back good memories.
All that.
Did she call you?
Top gun after that night if I may
ask.
No, definitely not.
Oh, that's too bad.
So what happened after that one night?
We stayed dating till about spring break then broke up
prom queens will always break your heart.
Maybe you broke her heart.
Oh, she definitely broke mine.
Yeah, I ended up doing better in the end.
I've got one of those stories you're looking
for.
Oh,
excellent.
Let's hear it's my friends.
It happened when David Lee Roth and Cinderella were touring and it was April 30th 1986.
Okay.
I was laid off, and a friend of mine said, hey, you know, I worked my night shift at the convenience store, you know, at Jiffy Mart on 1st Avenue, and I said, fine.
So anyway, it was a Wednesday.
Nine o'clock, I'm getting ready to leave, rush hour traffic on 1st Avenue and Cedar Rapids.
Three blocks from the police station.
This is crazy.
A girl walks in in a purple negligee.
What?
And it's chilly out.
And the manager, she said, her jaw falls open.
The girl gets a beer and a pack of smokes, and
I'm checking out and the girl, I asked
her,
are you okay?
And she goes, oh yeah, there was a concert at the five season center last night.
So I was up there all night.
It's like,
wow.
So I'm the night shining over, I'd go, would you like a ride someplace?
I had no bad intentions whatsoever.
Sure, sure.
She goes, no, that's fine.
So I leave ahead of her and I look outside and there's four cop cars sitting there waiting for her.
Right.
She walks out the door and she goes, I'll take that ride now.
I pull out two cops.
Geez.
And he goes, I have coffee and donuts with the cops in downtown Cedar Rapids.
You're the talk of the police department.
I'm like,
oh my god, I was just being the knight in shining armor.
But Roxanne always reminds me of that girl.
We should call that story the hero and the hooker.
Yeah.
Wow.
What a story that is.
But I'm thinking the police understood the situation you explained to them.
Oh,
they did.
You know, the sergeant that interrogated me, he goes, what are you doing?
I go, I'm giving her a ride.
He goes,
do you think that's wise?
And I go, it's chilly.
Look at the way she's dressed.
Right.
That is the
afternoon delight.
Is it family friendly if I ask you what that particular song reminds you
of?
It's a little bit more than awe.
A little bit more than what?
Pirated.
Not really something to get into a whole lot.
Were the two of you working up an
appetite?
Yeah, high school.
It was great.
Oh
boy,
were y'all
by yourself in your car listening to this song?
Oh yeah.
Oh, that's gotta be tough, especially after that first story you told me.
That was
a
great story without even telling it.
Good morning,
Mike.
Good
morning.
Shaky
Jake, what's happening?
Well, I have a memory song for you.
Okay.
That would be Molly Hatchett flirting with disaster.
Was this memory flirting with disaster?
Actually, it was.
Actually, it was.
Okay, well, I'm
dying to
hear it.
35 mile an hour gas curves.
And I used to take them at 90.
The object was, you had to stay in your lane of the traffic.
And then I took it at 95.
Uh-huh.
One night, and one night I took it at 105.
And the rear of the car started to break loose.
Good lord, man!
My eyes got a little big and...
Yeah?
Crazy stuff.
Crazy stuff.
Who are you, Tiger Woods?
Okay, the first time you hear the first two notes of poison talk dirty to me, when we were in high school, there were a group of friends and it was platonic relationships, truly.
We were all just a bunch of friends that got together and we would get together with kids from another neighboring school district.
There might have been a little bit of alcohol involved, I'm not sure.
High school, you don't do that in high
school.
There may or may not have been.
OK, may or may not.
Well, we'll just assume may not have been then.
Yeah, but you know that.
how you're at a party and all of a sudden you hear the first two beats and your eyes get really big and you look at your best friend and you're like, yeah, so one of those.
Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about.
Okay, I was living out in Las Vegas and the apartment above mine was rented out to an intern minister and his wife from the Cora and when they got ready to come back here, they had their friend come out to help them move back and last day that they were there, they needed help loading stuff onto the U-Haul.
and their friend and myself stayed up all night talking to each other and the next day she got in the U-Haul and she left to come back to the Corps that was on a Monday and on Friday I flew back here and asked her to marry me.
Wow.
That will be 35 years ago and the song is Starships Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now.
And certainly nothing did.
Everybody thought I was crazy and the song kind of fit.
Well that's pretty cool man I'll tell you what you meet an Iowa girl you never look back.
Yep that's right.
would
be
Smoke on the Water Deep Purple and I went to the concert in 72
and
when they come out and they started doing that song everybody got up they rushed the stage but back then people were pretty mellow and they would sit on the floor so anyways they got too far up and when they tried to sit down it was like the domino effect and there's people everywhere I still remember arms and legs sticking up in the air and stuff so that's
That's kind of my little chuckle and it was really good because we did a lot of digging to get us all out of there.
Yeah, I'll bet.
So this whole crowd of people rushed the stage and all tried to sit down, didn't work right.
Dominoes and people falling to the floor everywhere.
Absolutely.
It was very funny.
It just looked
crazy.
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