Turn Me Loose
"You guys like Loverboy?"I went out for lunch today and when I started the car that bass line kicked in at the start of Turn me Loose and I was reminded of one of my favourite stories. 9 years ago (where the hell did that go?!?!) Slippy and I left Vancouver in his 1974 Mustang II to make the long trip to NB. The trip can take as long as you want it to but the bottom line is that it is 5000k.
Pete had bought the car a few months earlier after the old Grand Am bite the bullet in the happiest place on earth, Virden, Manitoba. After bussing to Victoria, Pete went on the hunt for a new vehicle and thanks to some pressure sales ended up with the 'Stang. He did some work on it and by May it was ready for the trek. We hit the road on a Sunday morning with visions of a Cannonball Run race home. We got two and half hours in before the 'Stang broke down. Just on the other side of Hope, after going through the Coquihalla toll plaza, the car stalled and wouldn't start again. A tow pulled up and took us back through the plaza (on us) and told us that we would need to go back to Hope to get it looked at. We were devastated. We were completely deflated. We had a tight budget as it was and any major repairs were going to break us. Sitting in the tow truck, none of us spoke. The driver must have sensed our distress and after five minutes of silence had a revelation. His eyes lit up, he turned towards us, smiled widely and said "You guys like Loverboy?" while pressing play on the tape deck. When the bass line to Turn me Loose kicked in I too was smiling widely and bobbing my head. Slippy pulled his Bucks hat down low and toe-tapped his workboots. We didn't still weren't talking a whole lot but all of us were rocking. I'll never hear that song without smiling again.
Next weekend is the first game of the Loyalists season so this weekend is, in effect, my last rugby free weekend of the summer. So I am heading to Halifax to turn it loose. As for Loverboy, well, they are still touring and are in fact playing the Medicine Hat Stampede this weekend. Jackson that would be a good story...
Tear into the weekend.
Reno
posted by Vitamin S @ 2:16 p.m.
3 Comments:
Simon the next time you get down to Hali you should look me up!
It was great to see you out-have a great trip.
Julie
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I still think of that story everytime i hear that song. It came on just the other day and i said to Tracey - "do you like loverboy"?(in a dirty tow truckers voice)
Slippy
How funny is that album cover by the way?
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