An adventure for an Adventurebilt

inexpensive_jones · Post by **inexpensive_jones** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:31 pm

A word of caution for those who like to distress their gear: Inform your spouse!
After a mere 1 year and 3 month wait for my AB, My wife asked if I really wanted to keep my older Stetson. Being a man who hates clutter, I said that she could send it to Goodwill with the rest of the items we were donating.
Unbeknown to her, I had decided to distress my new AB, which looked great to me. But when the Mrs. was collecting things for goodwill, she mistook the new hat to be my old Stetson, so off it went to Goodwill!
When I got home from work I saw my Stetson sitting in its usual spot ,and putting it on thought to myself, “you know I think I’ll keep it after all, for sentimental reasons.” But when I began looking for my AB I got a little worried and asked my beloved where my hat was. She pointed to my head. I said, “No, I mean my AB, this is my Stetson.” She thought I was pulling a prank and chuckled, “No it isn’t, I took your old hat to Goodwill this morning.”
Well, the conversation revealed the mix-up and before you could spit, I was on the road speeding toward town, calling from my cell phone and the entire time getting a busy signal. Fortunately, we know the lady who works at GW and when I arrived told her what happened and how much the hat meant to me. Unfortunately, it had already made its way on to the floor and was sold around noon (I didn’t have the stomach to ask what they sold it for). The woman who bought it was pulling together some last minute costume changes for a high school play. The final dress rehearsal was that night and all the parents were invited separately because of a space issue. Okay, so since I don’t know this lady’s number, I rush over to the school, but no one is there yet. I waited around for a little while but realize that it could be hours and I was starving so I drove over and grabbed some fast food.
By the time I got back, the cast was arriving so I ran inside to hunt down the lady with my hat. Everyone was dressed as hillbillies or something with floppy cut up cheap wool-felt hats. I look across the room and see the woman standing in front of a young man holding MY hat in one hand and a scissors in the other! I think I knocked over at least 3 kids as I ran toward the woman, who barely saw me coming. (I’ve never moved so fast in my life.)
Now, I grabbed the hat, which had barely escaped its first unofficial dimensional cut, and the woman gave out this blood-curdling scream! I’m not sure what my state of mind was at this point, but I ran! I was going to pay her back for the hat and everything, but when she screamed, I ran…out the door down the hall. But when I got to the stairs, I fell down flat. Here was this big football player-type kid who had me by the ankle, and with all his might was pulling my leg…just like I’m pulling yours.
Regards

Castor Dioscuri · Post by **Castor Dioscuri** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:34 pm

I hate you.

MustangLoverMex · Post by **MustangLoverMex** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:44 pm

That's what I call a heart-bumping story!!!!

Best Regards,
-Alfonso

gabrielle · Post by **gabrielle** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:45 pm

Castor Dioscuri wrote:I hate you.

Me too!!!

indyrocks · Post by **indyrocks** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:46 pm

Time on your hands have you inexpensive?

inexpensive_jones · Post by **inexpensive_jones** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:58 pm

Time on your hands have you inexpensive?

Umm, not really. Just a touch of ADD that needed a distraction.
OK Back to work!

The beatings will continue until morale improves!javascript:emoticon(':whip:')

indy89 · Post by **indy89** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:02 pm

"Hahahaha, sonofa...."
That story scared me

MustangLoverMex · Post by **MustangLoverMex** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:04 pm

Raiders of the Lost Fedora!!

Vaderbreath · Post by **Vaderbreath** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:24 pm

That was beautiful...totally had me going. Great ending!!!

-Corey

Indiana G · Post by **Indiana G** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:32 pm

ha ha! that was great

i totally appreciate that kind of humor.......nice work!

whipcracker · Post by **whipcracker** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:19 pm

Mitch LaRue · Post by **Mitch LaRue** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:31 pm

inexpensive,
Some may hate you for that... but you're MY hero for the day!
(And you just gave my heart a good workout... THANKS!)
Mitch

indyrocks · Post by **indyrocks** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:10 pm

inexpensive_jones wrote:
Time on your hands have you inexpensive?
Umm, not really. Just a touch of ADD that needed a distraction.
OK Back to work!

The beatings will continue until morale improves!javascript:emoticon(':whip:')

I always need a distraction.

IndianaBogart · Post by **IndianaBogart** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:47 pm

Castor Dioscuri wrote:
I hate you.

Me too!!!

Me three!

Bowie · Post by **Bowie** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:13 pm

Well played inexpensive!! But I hope you know you are going to a special "hot place" for that one.

mufflowne · Post by **mufflowne** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:23 pm

Cool story.

err....

Don't you have anything better to do? (I don't, so I read it)

Kokopelli · Post by **Kokopelli** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:36 pm

Dude- you owe me 3 minutes of my life back!!!

Chiliana Jones · Post by **Chiliana Jones** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:08 pm

ah man! you sure had me going

CJ

Carolina Tom · Post by **Carolina Tom** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:09 pm

That was sick . . . but funny!

DVD Connoisseur · Post by **DVD Connoisseur** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:32 pm

I broke into a cold sweat reading that!

IndyFalco · Post by **IndyFalco** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:31 pm

IndianaBogart wrote:
Castor Dioscuri wrote:
I hate you.

Me too!!!

Me three!

me FOUR

DR Ulloa · Post by **DR Ulloa** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:33 pm

My jaw hit the flow. That was a great story. Very believable. Don't ever do that again, though.

Dave

bigrex · Post by **bigrex** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:42 pm

Are you practicing for writing one of those "pick a path" books? You had me fooled, good April Fools material.

Bruce Wayne · Post by **Bruce Wayne** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:55 am

that wasnt very funny. go sit in the corner...

inexpensive_jones · Post by **inexpensive_jones** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:05 pm

Well this thread definitely got reactions. All the "I hate you's" oddly gave me a sense of a job well done. Face it, even those of you who hated it, loved it.
But I promise, I won't do it again...I hope.

tunic · Post by **tunic** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:47 pm

Sounds like the plot for Indy 5 . Great story.

Mitch LaRue · Post by **Mitch LaRue** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:05 pm

You're right, inexpensive... every one of those "I hate you"s was - in it's own backwards way - a "feather in your cap" and a definite acknowledgement of a job well done.

You definitely got a rise out of everybody... but then, I guess it was easy to know which nerve to hit on the Fedora Board, wasn't it?

For an encore, did you swing by the Jacket Forum and tell a story about leaving your Custom Gibson & Barnes draped over the top of a stove you didn't realize was ON?

Ooooh... I shouldn't even JOKE (or put thoughts into your CLEARLY EVIL mind!)
Now... GO GET 'EM!

Mitch

Don't Call Me Junior! · Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:23 pm

You had me reaching for my inhaler... and I don't even have one! Great story! Now don't you ever, ever, ever do that again! ;-)

RCSignals · Post by **RCSignals** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:58 pm

As soon as you said this " I waited around for a little while but realize that it could be hours and I was starving so I drove over and grabbed some fast food. "

I knew it was a leg pull

Rich Johnson · Post by **Rich Johnson** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:40 am

Somebody put a whip around that guys neck and pull him off stage.

Canada Jones · Post by **Canada Jones** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:28 am

You had me too. Glad it did not happen. Enjoy the hat. Oh, and did you keep the Stetson?
best
Canada

knibs7 · Post by **knibs7** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:37 pm

citRon wrote:Dude- you owe me 3 minutes of my life back!!!

that's crazy! I was going to say the exact same thing! You suckk!! jk

NIBS

raider 57 · Post by **raider 57** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:51 pm

One of the BEST Threads I've read recently! Totally off the wall...

Good ONE , IJ.................

jnicktem · Post by **jnicktem** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:40 pm

Gosh, you had my heart pounding! Thankfully it didn't happen!

theinterchange · Post by **theinterchange** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:25 pm

I was convinced that it happened. haha very good!

Randy

Post by **Michaelson** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:40 pm

No need to post so late, Randy. The mob already took him around back and hung him.

;-)

Regards! Michaelson

theinterchange · Post by **theinterchange** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:07 pm

I somehow missed this thread, thus the late comment.

Almost like showing up to a costume party in a chicken suit only to find out it was a formal affair.

Randy

Post by **Michaelson** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:49 pm

Actually, that happens to bink all the time!

Regards! Michaelson

Vegeta · Post by **Vegeta** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:07 pm

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh...........Thats not cool

I was really enjoying the story too

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:30 pm

Michaelson wrote:

Actually, that happens to bink all the time!

Regards! Michaelson

How was I to know your wedding was a formal affair?

gwyddion · Post by **gwyddion** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:30 pm

theinterchange wrote:I somehow missed this thread, thus the late comment. Almost like showing up to a costume party in a chicken suit only to find out it was a formal affair.

Randy

You know, that would be a fun experiment: showing up like that on a formal occasion on purpose, just to see the looks on their faces

Regards, Geert

IndianaChris711 · Post by **IndianaChris711** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:33 pm

Great story, very well designed plot. You should write the next Indiana Jones V. ;-) That would be freaky if something like that were to happen to me. It has happened to family. My grandfather when he was a kid used to get baseball players autographs after the games, or at the train station to the next city they were playing. I mean he had really good players autographs, Micket Mantle, Joe Dimaggio, to name a few. My grandfather was in the navy during world war II and one day his mom was in his room and found all these baseball cards and autographs and pieces of paper with autographs on them and thinks they are junk and throws them away. At least you got your hat back. Very good story. This thread really made my day.

IndianaChris

Mitch LaRue · Post by **Mitch LaRue** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:15 pm

Oooof!

I'm glad you enjoyed that story of inexpensive_jones', IndianaChris711... I did, too... but I gotta tellya, as an Old-School Comic Book - and the like - Collector from a ways back, that story of your GrandPa's really hit me like a punch in the gut!
That's a tragic end to what I'm sure were a lot of great mementos...

Mitch

McFly · Post by **McFly** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:59 pm

HAHAHAHAHAH!!! That was great!! I loved it! The whole time I had my mouth wide open, practically standing up, and was going, "Oh cr ap! Oh CR^P!" Then I got to the end and laughed very hard. That was fantastic.

Job well done.

Shane

theinterchange · Post by **theinterchange** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:07 pm

binkmeisterRick wrote:
Michaelson wrote:

Actually, that happens to bink all the time!

Regards! Michaelson
How was I to know your wedding was a formal affair?

Bink, it could fit if the chicken dance was done at the reception!

Randy

inexpensive_jones · Post by **inexpensive_jones** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:17 pm

Michaelson

How was I to know your wedding was a formal affair?

How come I never got the invite? But then again, who would invite a guy named "Inexpensive" to a wedding? Can you imagine the chinsey gift? That's if I even brought one.

IndianaChris711,
O man that's terrible.

theinterchange · Post by **theinterchange** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:31 pm

inexpensive_jones wrote:Michaelson
How was I to know your wedding was a formal affair?
How come I never got the invite? But then again, who would invite a guy named "Inexpensive" to a wedding? Can you imagine the chinsey gift? That's if I even brought one.

IndianaChris711,
O man that's terrible.

you could give a craft felt fedora!

IndianaChris711 · Post by **IndianaChris711** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:03 pm

Mitch LaRue wrote:Oooof!

I'm glad you enjoyed that story of inexpensive_jones', IndianaChris711... I did, too... but I gotta tellya, as an Old-School Comic Book - and the like - Collector from a ways back, that story of your GrandPa's really hit me like a punch in the gut!
That's a tragic end to what I'm sure were a lot of great mementos...

Mitch

Ya I know my grandfather was pretty upset about it. I think he said he would be living a rich life if he had those cards, but he had 10 kids and all kinds of grandchildren that he saw in his lifetime. That is much more worth than a piece of paper with someone's autograph on it IMO. But my grandfather worked hard for what he had and that baseball collection did mean a lot to him. I know its a sad story, but just thought I would share. Anyway sorry to get things off track here. I just hope my mom doesn't throw away my adventurebilt when it gets here looking like next year now. ;-)

IndianaChris