Re: Worst thing you've ever done on a bet
Mullet have big eyeballs too. All I won was another hot Budwieser.<br /><br />My biggest mistake of the wagering kind came back in 1973, I was 18 years stupid, on leave from the Army.<br />Amateur Rodeo night at River Ranch Acres, Kissimmee, Florida. <br />My ride for the night was a 2300 pound, swamp crazy, palmetto chewin' spotted Brahmer. (I'd rode a couple broncs before, but this was my first snot slinger.....and last.)<br />Only took 4.37 seconds to break my thumb and collar bone. A hemotoma from my crotch to knee on one leg. And a quart of sand and horse dung packed firmly in my ears, nose and mouth.<br />Got my bones set and hematoma drained at the new VA hospital in Tampa.<br />My Commanding Officer(obviously a mamby pamby city boy)gave me an Article 15, and fined me one months pay.<br /><br />It did get me the girl, and the story told by my buds to this day. <br />It wasn't a mistake I got on, it was a mistake the way I got off.<br /><br />Jeez, it's taken me decades to to produce testosterone lower to near normal levels.<br />It was just 3 days ago that I quit taking bets to do stupid things.<br /><br />Most of my storys growing up in Florida involve a lot of Alligators, Rattlers, Sharks and lightning storms. <br />Most of them have been said to be unbelievable. These days I'll simply say that "I'm the luckyest person I know" rather then tell the story.
