Dave Stockton - "Take the Greyhound" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle. Then it started to hook just we we Bruce, didn't you bring your family across about that time?

Bruce Devlin 0:20

Yeah, we we did a little bit the same as what David did. Uh actually he traveled a little better than me. Uh Gloria and I traveled with two kids in a Greyhound bus for two and a half months. You're kidding. No, which wasn't much fun. Oh my God. Why? Why? Well, we didn't have it, we couldn't afford to buy a car, so we were traveling around in the Greyhound.

Dave Stockton 0:46

Oh my God. Okay. You didn't know that, huh? No, no. I didn't. I never I've never been on a Greyhound bus, and I don't think I missed much, I don't think.

Bruce Devlin 0:54

No, you haven't missed anything. And and you know something, David, I'll tell you about how this is how women think. I said to, you know, this has been mentioned a time or two, and I've always said, Man, I'll tell you, that was just so duh so tough, I thought. And then Gloria would say, Well, I'd do it again with two kids and cloth diapers and oh my gosh.

Dave Stockton 1:16

Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's you know, that's Kathy the same way. She goes well when we got on the the senior tour, and of course we're flying NetJet and stuff, and you know, we could we could do it. And I'm it was she kept saying, you know, I really miss our road trips, and all I remember, all I remember is it's the only time we fought because I am a guy, so I know I know where I'm going. Problem is I don't, right? So my wife, she's gotta be diplomatic, you know.

Mike Gonzalez 1:47

Before GPS.

Dave Stockton 1:48

I can remember, I can remember, I think it was in Arkansas, somewhere around that. We're driving, we've gone into a McDonald's and we got bought breakfast or lunch, I guess, because we had chocolate milkshakes, and she had the glove box open. We had both both milkshakes on the on the little tray right in front of her, and this dog ran right in front of me, and I slammed on the brakes, and both our milkshakes go into our our our you know glove box, which is filled with our most prized possession, which happened to be blue chip stamps and sn green stamps. Because you get all sorts of free pans and stuff, you know, and you're saving this stuff, right? Oh my god, we spent the whole night trying to clean these things up and we could still get our money's worth out of all this stuff we had in there. No, it was the road trip, the road trips weren't weren't too I I look at the the like the tr the vans they have now and and and the mobile homes they can travel in. I mean that would have been spectacular, but uh they weren't available to us that time.

Mike Gonzalez 2:48

Now imagine all the young kids listening to this, they have no idea what we're talking about with all these green stamps, SH green stamps, and wouldn't have a clue. I thought you were gonna say the the milkshakes uh ruined all your maps because this was way before GPS.

Dave Stockton 3:02

Oh god, we used to go get what was it when you go to the automobile club and then give it away. Triple A. TripTix.

Mike Gonzalez 3:09

Yeah, or Triple A and yeah, yeah.

Dave Stockton 3:11

Rand McNally. Yeah, oh yeah. No, no, don't have to worry about that now.

Mike Gonzalez 3:16

So who did you guys travel with in your caravans back then?

Dave Stockton 3:21

Uh actually a lot with the lotses. Uh Bob Lund started with us. Uh Geyberger, of course, like I say, he played two weeks and was gone two weeks, so there wasn't much traveling with him. Um but uh we we wouldn't caravan necessarily. We we'd know which hotels were motels we were going to, motels in the most part. Uh and then that was the those brings back. Do you remember the Azaleen Open? Azalea Open? Yeah, I do. I can remember the Barbie apartments out on the beach, and uh it was the greatest week. I mean, it was like$75 for the whole week, and you had to pay$15 extra to get a TV. And we built the coolest par three course down on their sand dunes with with plastic from the dry cleaning. We had water holes, we had all sorts of stuff. And my short game got really sharp there.

Mike Gonzalez 4:13

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Intro Music 4:35

Whack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. Then it started to slice just smidge off line. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. My caddy says long as you're still in the state, you're okay.