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Hallway Slip
and Slide
It was a beautiful
spring Sunday morning and a bunch of us fish were stuck
at A&M for the weekend with nothing to do. Someone
decided we should go out to Lake Somerville, which I
remember as being 25-30 miles southeast of College Station.
fish were not allowed to go beyond 25 miles from campus
without a pass signed by a white belt so this was a
safe distance for us.
We all piled into a couple of cars and
found some place that would sell us a couple of cases
of beer and then it was off to the lake. It seemed destined
to be an uneventful afternoon until we all got pretty
inebriated and decided to play a little touch football.
Touch football quickly digressed to tackle football
and someone (I'm pretty sure it was "flea")
laid a hard hit on Sam Villagran's kidneys. He went
down in pain and we rushed him to the Brenham hospital
because he was passing blood in his urine. Apparently
we were a pretty ragged looking bunch and it was probably
a miracle we didn't all get tossed in jail.
After that adventure we headed back to
the dorms but we still had a little mischief left in
us.
It all started when one of us decided
to take a bath. That would normally be difficult in
most showers but it required only a bit of ingenuity
in the dorms. The six shower heads produced a prodigious
amount of water. All that was needed was a way to stop
the water from escaping. The drain was easily taken
care of by laying a washrag over it. The entrance into
to shower area was more problematic.
There was a rather large bench in the
crapper, and the solution to plugging the entrance was
to turn it on its side and plaster it with towels. With
the bench placed tightly against the entry walls, and
the towels to block the water from flowing between the
slats (sort of), it actually did little more than slow
the water's retreat from the shower area. But, with
all of the water leaking out, it was a testimony of
the volume of water those showers put out when the whole
thing filled up with about 18 inches of water in short
order.
Well, we started playing in this new pool/tub
since we were still petty well under the influence and
bored. Then someone realized that all of the water pouring
out into the hallway was making the highly polished
floor extremely slippery. In fact, it was better than
a "Slip-N-Slide", especially if we dispensed
with our clothes. So we did.
We would go to the far end of the stoop
and run until we got to the wet area. Then we would
fall on our backs and slide down the hall. With a little
practice we were able to carom in just about any direction
we wished.
Apparently we were quite entertaining
because we attracted quite a crowd watching us run up
and down the halls buck naked, sliding all over and
bumping into anything in our way. It is a wonder no
one was injured.
Notice that I mentioned earlier about
water in the hallway making the floor slippery. We never
turned those shower heads off so they kept pumping out
the water for hours. And that water had nowhere to go
except out the hall and under doorways. The upper classmen
that lived in those rooms and who were away for the
weekend had no one stuffing towels under their doorways,
as we did for our holes, to keep the water out. Their
rooms were completely filled with a layer of water.
Surprisingly, that was the one time we
did something that had negative repercussions for upperclassmen
that we suffered no consequences for. I'm not sure why
but I suspect that it was because all of the zips lived
at the far ends of each hallway and were too far away
for the water to reach their rooms. And, I seem to remember
that a couple of them were getting a kick out our revelry.
The bottom line is that I think that they must have
forbade the pissheads and sergebutts from punishing
us.
It was a great afternoon to let off some
of the stress of being a fish.
Tom (TE) Schoolcraft
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What I remember about this trip was fish
Mulcahey puking in the back of my car on the way home
from the lake.
Wayne (Eddurds) Edwards
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