Johnny Field Blast:
This is without a doubt, my most humiliating experience. Some of you that know me have heard this story, but for everyone else, why don't I just share!
I went out to San Diego to a private party where we hired Mike Keneally to play at. It was 72 hours of compressed mayhem, and a helluva great time. I flew back via American Airlines and had a ham/turkey/swiss cheese croissant on the plane. It smelled ok, and tasted good, but it was definitely concocted with some kind of evil ingredients. An hour or so after eating it, I was given the final countdown by my spasming colon. I had about 8 seconds to get to the restroom in the rear of the plane (I should have done it in 1st class!). After unloading a metric ton of brown paste, I figured it was over. No dice. I shit twice more on the plane, and 3 times at ORD after we landed. By now, all the symtoms of food poisoning were hitting me. I took the airport train to my car at the remote lot, and started driving back to WI. I got about halfway home when the "urge" hit me again. I was about 4 miles from a freeway oasis, and at about a mile and a half away, I had to make a life/death decision. I wasn't going to make it to the oasis, and I had to decide whether or not to shit my pants (I was wearing sweats) and my car seat. I pulled over, grabbed my ever present handful of napkins out of my glove box and trundled down the embankment to find my spot. It had just gotten done raining, was night time, and about 80 degrees out with 100% humidity. I was already having hot/cold spells from the food poisoning, and a case of the spins. I doffed my sweats and undies and hung them on a sapling that was
growing nearby. I began to spray paint the vegitation for a good 2 minutes straight. The balloon knot was breached, I was experiencing full on PTS (pencil thin stream). The smell was worse than death, I had no balance, and tried (successfully!) to keep from shitting on the back of my shoes. All this time, I was worried about a cop seeing my truck on the shoulder with the hazards on, nobody in it, and decidng to shine the spotlight down in the ditch. Being a guy, I just HAD to look before I covered up the crime scene with my remaining few used napkins. Between the smell, heat, and humidity, I was surprised I didn't puke. I did gag.....I couldn't see the evil spatterings, but I knew where they were. If the Illinois Department of Corrections was going to have a litter clean up there any time soon, I feel sorry for the person who would have stumbled onto my "mark". Made it home without incident, and took 2 days off of work before it passed. The moral of this story is ALWAYS have a pile of napkins in your vehicle. You NEVER know when you might need them. I owe the title of Johnny Field Blast to my friends back home who were the first people I related this story to.
The End
J-Dubya