The Walkie Talkie
At some point in the late 90's, before cell phones offered up so many minutes at such a cheap price, Gino and I thought it would be a good idea to use walkie talkies for road trips to gigs. At that point I hadn't yet moved from the college town of Olympus to the big city of Terminus, so it was often that Gino would either ride together or we would at least convoy on a road trip.
Warno however would never want to convoy with us. Back in the earlier part of the 90's when we would almost always double up so one person could rest their car, He would get aggravated cause Gino would either ride his ass or he would pass him and then miss a turn cause he was following us in the first place. So eventually Warno got in this mode of insisting that we each get directions and we would just meet there. What a GREAT guy! Warno also thought that the Walkie Talkies were dumb.
Fast forward about 5 years. I was already living in Terminus at that point, but Gino and I would often meet up on the road once we were both on the same highway (Often was the case that Terminus was on the way to most gigs coming from Olympus). When we would meet up, we would break the radios and talk on our way to the gig.
One weekend we had a pretty big gig down in Mayport. Gino and I did the usual. We met up on the highway and we met Warno down at my parents house which is only about an hour from Mayport. Gino and I decided that we would put his drums in my car and ride together to Mayport. SO as we were leaving we tried to give Warno one of the walkie talkies. He said no. He thought they were silly and a waste of time. My mom grabbed one and made him take it. hahahaha.
So on the way down to Mayport, Gino and I figured that we would never even use the walkie talkies, but we kept it on just in case. Well, as always Warno's directions were awful. He always seemed to do a really bad job at getting directions. HE would always leave out a road and he would refuse to use mapquest. What An ass hat! So anyway, here we are going through Mayport and not finding any of the roads we needed. It turns out that we missed an entire interstate because Warno didn't write it down correctly. Next thing you know, Warno is on the wwalkie talke asking us to call the people and find out where we were. The funny part is that Warno also thought cell phones were silly and he constantly made fun of Gino and I talking on the phones. Even though the modern world realizes that using a cell phone is cheaper or just as cheap as a land line, like his wardrobe (subject for an upcoming post) Warno is about 10 years behind and thinks that cell phone usage is something like $100 a minute.
So Gino got on the phone with the peeps while I talked to Warno on the talkies. We ended up going way out of the way to get there, but we made. We almost didn't make it in time. Had we not had two technologies with us that Warno thought was "silly", we would have missed our start time at that gig.
Oh well, that still didn't convince Warno that cell phones are smart..................
Warno however would never want to convoy with us. Back in the earlier part of the 90's when we would almost always double up so one person could rest their car, He would get aggravated cause Gino would either ride his ass or he would pass him and then miss a turn cause he was following us in the first place. So eventually Warno got in this mode of insisting that we each get directions and we would just meet there. What a GREAT guy! Warno also thought that the Walkie Talkies were dumb.
Fast forward about 5 years. I was already living in Terminus at that point, but Gino and I would often meet up on the road once we were both on the same highway (Often was the case that Terminus was on the way to most gigs coming from Olympus). When we would meet up, we would break the radios and talk on our way to the gig.
One weekend we had a pretty big gig down in Mayport. Gino and I did the usual. We met up on the highway and we met Warno down at my parents house which is only about an hour from Mayport. Gino and I decided that we would put his drums in my car and ride together to Mayport. SO as we were leaving we tried to give Warno one of the walkie talkies. He said no. He thought they were silly and a waste of time. My mom grabbed one and made him take it. hahahaha.
So on the way down to Mayport, Gino and I figured that we would never even use the walkie talkies, but we kept it on just in case. Well, as always Warno's directions were awful. He always seemed to do a really bad job at getting directions. HE would always leave out a road and he would refuse to use mapquest. What An ass hat! So anyway, here we are going through Mayport and not finding any of the roads we needed. It turns out that we missed an entire interstate because Warno didn't write it down correctly. Next thing you know, Warno is on the wwalkie talke asking us to call the people and find out where we were. The funny part is that Warno also thought cell phones were silly and he constantly made fun of Gino and I talking on the phones. Even though the modern world realizes that using a cell phone is cheaper or just as cheap as a land line, like his wardrobe (subject for an upcoming post) Warno is about 10 years behind and thinks that cell phone usage is something like $100 a minute.
So Gino got on the phone with the peeps while I talked to Warno on the talkies. We ended up going way out of the way to get there, but we made. We almost didn't make it in time. Had we not had two technologies with us that Warno thought was "silly", we would have missed our start time at that gig.
Oh well, that still didn't convince Warno that cell phones are smart..................
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