After I left the Navy in 2000, Dad and uncle Skip (Bill Herring) took me to a bar in Bastrop Texas...Mary's Cantina. We got pretty lit and were playing pool all evening. Uncle Skip is a great pool player and we had control of the pool tables all night.
We were having a blast, slamming whiskey and cokes and shooting pool on everybody else's dollar. I kept ending up playing pool with one guy that had an attitude. He had been just released from prison and thought he would give me a bunch of shit. He wanted to argue about every shot and Dad decided it was stopping. So Tom threatened the guy and told him that he would "stick his hook through his guts" if he didn't leave his son alone. Amazingly, the guy just left.
Everything was going fine again and I started dancing with a gal, repeatedly. She was a cutie with short blonde hair, blue eyes and a solid figure. I wouldn't even call her chunky...just solid, healthy looking. Anyway, the bar was about to close and I asked her if she wanted to go to the river with us. She exclaimed, "Great!" and went to get her purse. So I decided to let the family know what was happening and told uncle Skip and Dad that I had a woman accompanying me to the cabin. She gathered her stuff and came ready to go! As Dad drank the last of his drink, he looked at her and said, "You're too damn fat to go to the river with MY boy!" She turned around without saying a word and stormed out.
I hate to tell you, but there wasn't a thing wrong with that gal....Dad just screwed me! We laughed about it for years, but he sure saw to it that I didn't have a gal that night! Fucker.