In The
Beginning ......
The ETSU memoirs started off
in the fall of 1991. I started that fall as a business major
(yes business I don't know what I was thinking). Joe was my
roommate (a Fellow Campbell Countian). Joe is a hyperactive
insomniac. We lived on the third floor of Taylor Hall (site
of the current library, yeah Taylor didn't make it out alive
after us). Taylor was the oldest dorm on the campus, and second
oldest building. It's hard to put the events in proper order
since there were so many, but they will be told as I remember
them. I think the statute of limitations should be up by now
too. One of my earliest memories was of Joe's hair spray, back
when we started rooming together he used a spray can. Remember
this was early 90's coming out of the 80's so guys used hair
spray. This was of course perfect for spraying the wall and
setting it on fire with many different designs (pentagrams,
etc..). The RA had an odd look on his face after seeing the
burnt pentagram design in the paint on the wall. It was also
good for spraying on the hand and setting it on fire for a good
fire ball effect as well(note do not try this at home, it burns
away much body hair). I would at times spray a design and set
it afire, or spray my foot, or hand and do the awesome, but
painful fire ball effect (mirrors have a tendency to melt at
the right temperature). And hey, we didn't have sprinklers to
worry about setting off. This leads me up to how we broke out
our first window at ETSU. One day Joe's shoe accidentally got
set on fire, no no he wasn't in it at the time, though he was
a bit upset about it. Well, thinking we didn't want any of our
stuff burning up, and it would really suck to burn down the
dorm the first week, Joe grabbed the flaming shoe, ran into
the stairwell and kicked out the window. He then hurled the
shoe into the next parking lot over, where it burnt itself out.
After much "Patrick you set my shoes on fire" Me and
Joe had a good laugh, and then had much food...... food is an
ongoing theme in the ETSU Memoirs. Ather a little thought it
came to us, we could have used the sink to put out the shoe.
Hmmm this could have affected our garbage can.........
