Border Popcorn & The Samples Motel
Dec 30, 2022 10:26:23 #
Border Popcorn& The Samples Motel
After living in the Rio Grande Valley for over three years, we finally build our new home. This was a modest three bedrooms with a maid’s quarters off the garage. The back porch was a 12 foot slab with a roof that extended from one side to the opposite side. Without realizing it, we had created a ‘bed and breakfast’.
Several of my fellow salesmen from around the state came for the White Wing Dove season and would camp at our casa. With the back porch being sheltered and a bathroom off the garage, it served for my hunter friends who didn’t mind roughing it. The white wing dove season was only half days, on two weekends in September.
I recall that a local drive-in grocery had cases of shotgun shells as high as my shoulder and extended from the front door all the way to the back. Then next to this would be cases of beer all similarly arranged. It was the efforts of different oil companies, and service companies to entertain their guests. Since beer and loaded shotguns don’t mix, I was always careful where I hunted, and tried to stay far away from those hunters.
Then, after the hunt was over, most of the hunters would go over to Reynosa. This town was a much more liberal one than any in Texas. Besides the restaurants and bars, there was a Boy’s Town, about a mile to the west of the city of Reynosa.
Since the accepted prophylaxis for Gonorrhea was Aureomycin, this was one or two yellow capsules, four times per day, it became known as “border popcorn”! The only time I ever ventured over to ‘Boy’s Town’ was to retrieve some guys who had a car problem. I believe their battery was dead and I was called to come and give them a jump start. I was not impressed with the sights and sounds of “Boy’s Town” in the harsh light of day! While you had to have a prescription for Aureomycin in Texas, the drug was sold over the counter in Mexico.
No one ever admitted getting a sexually transmitted disease from their hunting trips, but you never know what the risks are. With enough tequila, music, and a Conchita on your arm, what the results might be. Just Sayin…RJS
After living in the Rio Grande Valley for over three years, we finally build our new home. This was a modest three bedrooms with a maid’s quarters off the garage. The back porch was a 12 foot slab with a roof that extended from one side to the opposite side. Without realizing it, we had created a ‘bed and breakfast’.
Several of my fellow salesmen from around the state came for the White Wing Dove season and would camp at our casa. With the back porch being sheltered and a bathroom off the garage, it served for my hunter friends who didn’t mind roughing it. The white wing dove season was only half days, on two weekends in September.
I recall that a local drive-in grocery had cases of shotgun shells as high as my shoulder and extended from the front door all the way to the back. Then next to this would be cases of beer all similarly arranged. It was the efforts of different oil companies, and service companies to entertain their guests. Since beer and loaded shotguns don’t mix, I was always careful where I hunted, and tried to stay far away from those hunters.
Then, after the hunt was over, most of the hunters would go over to Reynosa. This town was a much more liberal one than any in Texas. Besides the restaurants and bars, there was a Boy’s Town, about a mile to the west of the city of Reynosa.
Since the accepted prophylaxis for Gonorrhea was Aureomycin, this was one or two yellow capsules, four times per day, it became known as “border popcorn”! The only time I ever ventured over to ‘Boy’s Town’ was to retrieve some guys who had a car problem. I believe their battery was dead and I was called to come and give them a jump start. I was not impressed with the sights and sounds of “Boy’s Town” in the harsh light of day! While you had to have a prescription for Aureomycin in Texas, the drug was sold over the counter in Mexico.
No one ever admitted getting a sexually transmitted disease from their hunting trips, but you never know what the risks are. With enough tequila, music, and a Conchita on your arm, what the results might be. Just Sayin…RJS
Dec 30, 2022 11:54:46 #
Dec 31, 2022 10:10:45 #
MoJoe
Loc: Springfield, MO
Love your stories. Have you considered compiling them into a book? A template might be Trout Madness by Robert Traver, nee John Voelker.
Dec 31, 2022 10:45:38 #
MoJoe: Thank you for the suggestion. Yes, I have published two books of stories of my life. I am now in the process of writing a novel in addition to these stories on The Fishing Forum. Just Sayin...RJS
Jan 1, 2023 13:59:57 #
Robert J Samples wrote:
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Thank RJS great story 👍🏽👍🏽
Jan 1, 2023 14:03:47 #
Robert J Samples wrote:
MoJoe: Thank you for the suggestion. Yes, I have published two books of stories of my life. I am now in the process of writing a novel in addition to these stories on The Fishing Forum. Just Sayin...RJS
Wow, would like to read’s your life stories books 📚 !! 👍🏽👍🏽
Jan 1, 2023 14:40:12 #
Billycrap2]Wow, would like to read’s your life stories books 📚 !! 👍🏽👍🏽[/quote]
Billycrap2: There are two ways you can acquire my books. 1) you can contact Lulu Publishing and order them. or 2) If I have copies 1 and 2 available, I can send them to you. $21 for volume 1 and $22 for Vol. 2 which covers the sales tax and postage as well. Let me know and if you decide to purchase only one, or both, send a check for the chosen amount to me @ 310 Chisholm Trail Rd, Apt 111, Round Rock, Tx 78681.
Thanks again for asking. Just Sayin...RJS
Billycrap2: There are two ways you can acquire my books. 1) you can contact Lulu Publishing and order them. or 2) If I have copies 1 and 2 available, I can send them to you. $21 for volume 1 and $22 for Vol. 2 which covers the sales tax and postage as well. Let me know and if you decide to purchase only one, or both, send a check for the chosen amount to me @ 310 Chisholm Trail Rd, Apt 111, Round Rock, Tx 78681.
Thanks again for asking. Just Sayin...RJS
Jan 1, 2023 22:21:59 #
Robert J Samples wrote:
Billycrap2]Wow, would like to read’s your life stories books 📚 !! 👍🏽👍🏽
Billycrap2: There are two ways you can acquire my books. 1) you can contact Lulu Publishing and order them. or 2) If I have copies 1 and 2 available, I can send them to you. $21 for volume 1 and $22 for Vol. 2 which covers the sales tax and postage as well. Let me know and if you decide to purchase only one, or both, send a check for the chosen amount to me @ 310 Chisholm Trail Rd, Apt 111, Round Rock, Tx 78681.
Thanks again for asking. Just Sayin...RJS[/quote]
RJS I will be sending you a check for both books.
Thank for letting me buy your books 📚 I would be honored 🙏🙏👍🏽🎣🎣🎣🎣🐟🐟🐠🐠🐋🐋🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅
Jan 1, 2023 23:36:59 #
You are welcome. Both books have been out for more than a year but I don't try to push their sales. Let me know if you'd like me to write something in each book. I would also appreciate any critiques after you've had a chance to read them. Just Sayin...RJS
Jan 1, 2023 23:43:58 #
Robert J Samples wrote:
You are welcome. Both books have been out for more than a year but I don't try to push their sales. Let me know if you'd like me to write something in each book. I would also appreciate any critiques after you've had a chance to read them. Just Sayin...RJS
Will do 👍🏽👍🏽
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