Happy Birthday ocrider

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  1. genusmtbkr5

    genusmtbkr5 STR Moderator

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    I added the pic to your post. Ya OMR is right, it was during Matt's Chrismas/New Year's break last Jan when we had all that snow in the Santa Ana's.
     
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    OMR Old Man Riding...

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    Only in Kentucky....(This one's for Soaring Falcon)

    As a guitarist, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a grave-side service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the Kentucky back-country.

    As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost; and being a typical man I didn't stop for directions. I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight.

    There were only the diggers and crew left and they were eating lunch. I felt badly and apologized to the men for being late. I went to the side of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in place. I didn't know what else to do, so I started to play.

    The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around. I played out my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends. I played like I've never played before for this homeless man.

    And as I played "Amazing Grace" the workers began to weep. They wept, I wept, we all wept together. When I finished I packed up my guitar and started for my car. Though my head hung low, my heart was full.

    As I was opening the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, "Sweet Mother of Jesus, I never seen nothin' like that before and I've been putting in septic tanks for over twenty years."

    Happy Birthday, Matt!
     
  3. ShinKen

    ShinKen STR BUB!!

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    :wave:happy birth day DOod!
     
  4. ocrider

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    I just got back from smuggling beer from VA. It was so hick drinkin beer in the back of a pick up in the hills of VA

    I've got short hair now! I had a mullet for a while lol
     
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    haha so true except for the fact many people here dont have septic tanks! just straight line pipes into the creek.
     
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    Pain Freak Dead or Alive

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    Happy birthday Matt. I remember when you was a minor!
     

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