The Crash of 1973
It was the summer of ' 73 on a weekend. The place was pumping—two hour wait—music up full. Mark was busing—lumbering around in his diffident manner. Rocky and I were speeding along like pair of Porches (we were small and fast as light)when the worst thing that can happen to the well oiled running of a big room happened. Someone ( I won't say it was Mark but it could have been—he was still tentative, being new and somewhat shy) did the big whoops—dropped a full tray of bar glasses - he was handing over to Bobby the bartender at the service end. For one short moment after the crash, there was a silence that could be heard everywhere, and in that silence came Rocky's voice like a matter of fact announcer: "Brought to you by the makers of gravity."
I thought it was so funny and so perfectly timed, that I almost fell over laughing. To this day I still say it was one of the best off the cuff lines ever.
Eric Shugaar (class of ' 72—' 74) email Eric at : sgtsugarbear68@yahoo.com






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