Growing up in the country outside a small town in North Central Texas everyone must know that football rules. I was a band member and freshman at the time and yes the freshman were required to wear beanies on Fridays, attend the pep rally and ride at the front of the Greyhound bus as we would travel to from small town to small town for games.

There was a particularly attractive young lady who was a Senior. She asked me if I would like to sit next to her for the two hour ride home after a game. I was besides myself and gleefully shared my triumph with Jimmy Don and Billy Fred (yes that really is their names). I got to sit at the back of the bus, with a Senior and a cute Senior Girl no less! The joy and excitement was more than I could handle.

I sat next to the window and we talked and laughed and I got teased by the other Seniors for a while. She said she was tired and laid a pillow in my lap to put her head on to fall asleep.

Some time later I was awoken to the screams of: Ooooh! Oooooh! Oooooh!

You see, I too had fallen asleep sitting up.

Unfortunately, I had drooled in her ear! Things were just never the same and I carry the embarrassment and shame to this day!