STORY OF THE RAPTOR

Born on December 25 -- a Christmas baby, the ultimate ripoff.

Spent the first five years in central L.A., including numerous visits to the emergency room for things like crashing his tricycle into a concrete wall down a steep hill at high speed.

His family moved to Westchester, where he almost got kicked out of the altar boys for setting the altar on fire while lighting candles just before high mass.

Got kicked out of the Boy Scouts for hiding behind a bush and ambushing the scoutmaster's son (a real weenie) on his bicycle with water balloons. He was only one merit badge shy of Eagle Scout.

Probably set a high school school record for total hours in after school detention. Almost got kicked out just days before graduation for getting into a fight and starting a fire in a trash can in the bathroom.

Worked part time throughout school, much of it as a boxboy at Von's in Westchester, where he was almost fired for losing control of a train of 47 shopping carts, which ran through a plate glass window into the store, knocking over a fat lady.

His fraternity pledge class got the fraternity suspended for stealing the religious fraternity's neon sign and hanging it from the campus clock tower, chaining a rival fraternity member to his bed, and putting him, his bed, and his VW Beetle in the campus reflecting pool.

The hood flew off his Corvair on the San Diego Freeway and sailed neatly through the passenger side windshield of a moving van behind him.

Joined the Air Force and became a F4C Phantom pilot. His career as a pilot ended when he got bopped in the eye with a baseball bat playing catcher, standing too close to the plate, in a sandlot game in San Antonio.

On the first night of his first Air Force Reserve summer camp, he fell backward into a reflecting pool with a girl in front of a bar in Riverside.

George and his wife, Anne Marie, went to Europe and East Africa for the summer, taking delivery of a new VW camper at the factory in Germany. In Africa, they wrecked seven cars, stayed in a Masai village mud hut, almost got trampeled by elephants, and got stuck in a dry river bed and in the Serengeti -- where they got rescued by a drunk policeman and doctor and stayed in another mud hut.

George and Anne Marie went to Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. Stayed at two jungle camps on the Peruvian Amazon. George bartered for a poison-tipped arrow blowgun from a Yagua Indian chief. Got shitfaced and fell face first into a piranha-infested river. Almost got arrested for bringing a blowGUN through airport security in Miami.

While partying with his buddies at the Long Beach Grand Prix, got launched from a 14 foot high homemade scaffolding that its constructor had neglected to tie down, blowing out his knee, which required two operations.

Got thrown out of a Pasadena Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast for telling a sexist joke. (It wasn't so bad.)

Leased Berlina black on black S2000.

Joined S2KI. Took screen name :The Raptor. Hosted numerous Angeles Crest runs and BBQs at his house. Many cars wrecked.

 

what I want to know is when did you join the chateau

 

2003.

 

BTW, have you joined yet?

 

 

BUMP.

 

I almost got kicked off our Chamber of Commerce's board of directors for laughing out loud when we served roast beef at a board meeting. The irony was that the guest speaker was some tree hugger from some fair animal treatment blah blah society! I dont know I thought it was funny!

What was the sexist joke George?

 

Boy, that was a long time ago. A guy wakes up in bed with Tonya Harding, Lorena Bobbitt, and Hillary Clinton. He's been kneecapped, his wangus is missing, and he has no health coverage.

 

Let's see you graduated high school, went to college, became a pilot, travelled the world, experinced different cultures and probably married a wonderful wife and are/did raise some great kids?










Naw your right I don't want my life to have been like that.

 

you left out the most important part, "the chateau"