Funny stories

Looking back through the blog I realized that I forgot two funny stories involving drinking (and they didn't include me).

I flying back from Amman, Jordan to London-Heathrow and was sitting next to a Scottish guy returning home after 6 months of working in Jeddah. We landed in Beirut, Lebanon to pick up some more passengers. We had to wait on the tarmac for 2-3 hours because of very high winds in England. Well...the Scottish guy found out that they had IrnBru (Scottish soft drink) on the plane and, it being BA, the alcohol was free. After an uncountable amount of vodka & IrnBru's while listening to his headphones he started singing (loudly) and crying....oh, I almost forgot...and arguing with the flightcrew because he didn't believe that he had drank all the IrnBru. I'll always remember that flight as "The One with the Drunk Scotsman."

The second story deals with the Pogues' lead singer, Shane MacGowan. At the Birmingham (UK) Pogues concert this past December, Shane was beyond drunk. He would sing fine during the song but, during an instrumental break or a song by one of the other band members, he would leave the stage (with his bottle) and stumble off. After it was done he would stumble back on stage. He would swing his microphone by the cord and smacked it off of the ground and the mike stand. A few times we would drop the F-bomb to the crowd. It was still great to hear the Pogues play again. We had seen them once in Washington DC back in 1995 or so.