bill from lachine
Gold Member
Folks,
Just to lighten things up a bit another crazy story from my Barbados era. This one the joke is on someone else for a change.
One of our buddies Frank was engaged to get married so he decided to join us for a farewell trip before the nuptuals.
As luck would have it he managed to break his arm shortly before the trip no one back then bothered with cancellation insurance so he was down in the dumps figuring he'd have to cancel out and loose his deposit.
Well we talked him out of it saying we'd manage to fix him up somehow so he could enjoy the trip.
Well day 1 in the morning we took a green garbage bag and cut it down somewhat and used electrical tape to secure it over the cast so he could go in the ocean.
Well he was happy as a lark and went out into the water without a care. Problem was there was high winds the night before and even though the beach was sheltered by a coral reef some sea urchins managed to get washed over the coral and as luck would have it he stepped on one.
We had to help him out of the water and up to the beach club and not wanting to waste any of our partying money on a doctors fee we asked the waiter how we should treat it. He said no problem and came back with a candle, some slices of lemon and a big tumber glass of overproof rum.
So he gave us the procedure first you light up the candle and drip the melted wax on the wounds to help draw out the barbs, 2nd you rub the lemon slices on the wounds. We ask what's the rum for and he says for the patient because it's going to hurt like hell...lol.
Regards + HH
Bill
Just to lighten things up a bit another crazy story from my Barbados era. This one the joke is on someone else for a change.
One of our buddies Frank was engaged to get married so he decided to join us for a farewell trip before the nuptuals.
As luck would have it he managed to break his arm shortly before the trip no one back then bothered with cancellation insurance so he was down in the dumps figuring he'd have to cancel out and loose his deposit.
Well we talked him out of it saying we'd manage to fix him up somehow so he could enjoy the trip.
Well day 1 in the morning we took a green garbage bag and cut it down somewhat and used electrical tape to secure it over the cast so he could go in the ocean.
Well he was happy as a lark and went out into the water without a care. Problem was there was high winds the night before and even though the beach was sheltered by a coral reef some sea urchins managed to get washed over the coral and as luck would have it he stepped on one.
We had to help him out of the water and up to the beach club and not wanting to waste any of our partying money on a doctors fee we asked the waiter how we should treat it. He said no problem and came back with a candle, some slices of lemon and a big tumber glass of overproof rum.
So he gave us the procedure first you light up the candle and drip the melted wax on the wounds to help draw out the barbs, 2nd you rub the lemon slices on the wounds. We ask what's the rum for and he says for the patient because it's going to hurt like hell...lol.
Regards + HH
Bill
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