oldtimer54
Well-Known Member
I was 12 years old and my parents and my 2 brothers and I were staying on my grandfathers tobacco farm one summer helping the grandfather get the crop in the barn. My father had 2 younger brothers that were still living at home they were both teenagers 14 or 15 years old .They had found a stash of white liquor that probably belonged to their father( my grandfather)
being the young gullible kid who wanted nothing more than to impress his 2 uncles who were more like brothers because of our age. I went at that liquor like it was the best tasting grape kool-aid I'd ever had not knowing that I was doing exactly what my 2 uncles wanted taking gulp after gulp of some high powered 160 proof Shine I really don't remember much after that but I have been told what I did or couldn't do like talk coherently or walk as my pops told me later just watching me go thru the backlash of drinking all that shine was punishment enough......oh yeah my 2 uncles got their asses tore up they have never let me forget that and every few years at Christmas time I give them each some fine local peach brandy made by a local moonshiner that I know.We all have a few drinks and talk about the good-ole-days and I have to recreate that day so long ago that honestly have no memory of they get a big kick out of the whole thing and I do too.......!
being the young gullible kid who wanted nothing more than to impress his 2 uncles who were more like brothers because of our age. I went at that liquor like it was the best tasting grape kool-aid I'd ever had not knowing that I was doing exactly what my 2 uncles wanted taking gulp after gulp of some high powered 160 proof Shine I really don't remember much after that but I have been told what I did or couldn't do like talk coherently or walk as my pops told me later just watching me go thru the backlash of drinking all that shine was punishment enough......oh yeah my 2 uncles got their asses tore up they have never let me forget that and every few years at Christmas time I give them each some fine local peach brandy made by a local moonshiner that I know.We all have a few drinks and talk about the good-ole-days and I have to recreate that day so long ago that honestly have no memory of they get a big kick out of the whole thing and I do too.......!