Hired on at United airlines 9 15 75 after HIGH school as a parts cleaner at the largest plane overhaul facility worldwide.
they would completely overhaul planes like 747s and dc 10s.
My father started there In 1946 when the airline was founded and was a supervisor.
Was a parts cleaner on midnight shift and since they did not serve beer we would bring our own for lunch time guzzling in parking lot.
The guard at the shack saw me on closed circuit tv tilting head back several times, no tape just live feed.
They went to truck and found 4 16 ounce coors tall boys freshly drank.
I denied it was mountain dew in the investigation.
Was fired but the union took the case to national arbitration and I won job back 18 months back pay, overtime, and vacation.
The only vacation slot was starting the next week.3 weeks paid
The same weeks my friend had planned a trip to Egypt. He is a genius and learned Arabic studied extensively the culture and history.
We got to Cairo late night and on the way to hotel front tire came of taxi and we crashed no injuries we hired a donkey cart to get us to hotel the adventure begun.
We headed south to Aswan head waters of the Nile.
We were on a 5 star barge eating giant shrimp cocktails and guzzling Stella lager beer,
We would visit the ancient temples and tombs and my friend knew all the history.
The tombs of kings and queens were in the desert and accessible thru small doorways were a man sat with a mirror and would reflect sunlight to another man and so on till the tomb was reached.
At king Tuts tomb I ripped a loud fart and a German lady called my swineholt German for pig..What we saw was amazing beyond description
We got back to Cairo and headed to pyramids with the golf ball chunk of hash we bought hired a lid to carry cooler fullo beer to top.
Had to bribe guards to climb as it is illegal to climb.
I was a full moon night and we had a hit of the good old orange sunshine acid, We took that and stayed on top all night till moonset and sunrise.
Talk about tripping...
Upon descent I noticed several armed guards assembling.
I kind of freaked out and when hit the sand ran off.
I realized I left my friend so I returned to see they had grabbed him by both arms and they were shouting jail jail jail.
we saw the jail there no thanks..
I proceeded to attempt a bribe with the change I had in pockets about 50 cents. No good jail jal jail...
They kept it up jail jail jail, my friend was in custody.
As soon as I get a 20 dollar US bill out of sock they all laughed and laughed. Including my friend
My friend spoke to them in Arabic after I ran off and they were impressed.
The whole thing was a joke on me and it really worked.
we sat and smoked couple hookah loads and became friends..
Wild times..
