Well, gol danged...

I remember going to Billy D's wedding back 'round '69 'er so an' his wife ot be's parents wanted their daughter to be married in the church so, ahhhh, we all went down to the Goodwill Store and got us some $5 siuts to wear....

Well, the day of the wedding was upon us and we all looked, well, okay. Not great, mind you, but okay. Well, maybe okay minus but, hey, they were real suits. Hey, it takes a small mind to think that suit have to fit perfectly....

But there we were sittin' in the back of the church since we weren't too sure which side of the isle we wanted to side with. You'd have to know Billy D. Hey, we didn't even know his bride too well but being on Billy D's side just didn't seem right as we did know him....

So here we were in the back of the church. You know, me and my raggedy friends... Well, this was one of them long Catholic doings with lots of ups and downs and ins and outs and secret handshakes and all that Catholic stuff that we didn't know jack about....

So I look down at the pew we was sitting in and there's my buddy Bo tolling a big ol' fat doobie and about the third 'er forth up and down 'er in and out, he lights that bad boy up....

I mean, here we were in the back of this Catholic church way back 'round Waynesbore, Va., the home of the Statler Brothers and Bo has just fired up a big ol' stinky doobie and passed it down the pew to the rest of us... Well, back 'round 1969 this ol' hillbilly thought it was a sin to pass up a little puff on a stinky doobie and since I was in a church I figgured that, ahhhh, I had to do it. So I takes me a big ol' puff. Maybe too big a puff, come to think of it, 'cause I got to coughing and carrying on and I'm looking down that pew in the back of that Catolic church at them Goodwill suited frined o' mine and they is all laughing an' carryin' on while Iz coughing my danged brains out and all the respectable people were looking back at us like we'd just kilt the Pope 'er somethin'....

Well, to this very day when we all get together it makes fir a good laugh so when it comes down to puffin' in church I say, what the hey, if they can't take a joke.............

Bobert