Graveyard Guzzling

[peetie44]

Her family lived in the house where the caretakers of the cemetery lived.

That would seriously be my dream home.

[ThirstyDrunk]

One of my absolute favorite drinking spots is Woodland Cemetary in Dayton. StumblingDoug and I go up there in the middle of the night quite often, to drink with the great historical figures of Dayton past: the Wright Bros., Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Erma Bombeck, Matilda Stanley (Gypsy Queen of the U.S.), Adam Schantz (one of the first brewers in Dayton and all around good guy), just to name a few. Wait maybe there are just a few, but hey, it's Dayton fer crikes sake. It's like the highest point in the city and it's pretty old. I have found it to be a definite "high energy" spot.
So a week ago or so I was flirting with the cute big tittied receptionist at work and she mentioned how she is terrified of graveyards. (ding!) I said I could cure her of that and we made a date. I said "I'll pick you up Saturday after dark."
She was ready, all dressed in dark clothes and comfortable shoes, and I had a case of Bubwiser and a bottle of Sailor Jerry. We were good to go.
I'm fairly stupid but that cemetary is one thing I do know alot about, so I showed off all night. I know right where the best holes in the fence are. I know right where the best pee spots are. I know right where the coolest headstones are. I know right where the most haunted sites are. Even in the dark. It worked out great as she was so scared she could hardly let go of me long enough to piss. We had a good time, got smashed, and I came off like one cool cucumber.
Just today she professed her love for me, so I guess thats the end of that. Oh well.
Anyway, I've been drinking in quite a few graveyards, and this one has been my favorite for at least ten years now. Yeah I've met some wierdos and freaks up there, came out scraped and bruised from running into stones, and woke up a few times as the sun was coming up and had to run/hide from the caretaker hungover as hell, but it is still a place I can go when I don't want to sit at home and drink yet I don't want to go to a bar or to a friends house. I always come out of there feeling "at peace"...and drunker'n fuck.

A Death Song

Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass,
Whah de branch 'll go a-singin'
as it pass.

An' w'en I's a-layin' low,
I kin hyeah it is as it go

Singin', “Sleep, my honey, tek yo' res at las'.”
Lay me nigh to whah hit meks a little pool,
An' de watah stan's so quiet lak an' cool,

Whah de little birds in spring,
Ust to come an' drink an' sing,

An' de chillen waded on dey way to school.
Let me settle w'en my shouldahs draps dey load

Nigh enough to hyeah de noises in de road;
Fu' I t'ink de las' long res'

Gwine to soothe my sperrit bes'
Ef I 's layin' 'mong de t'ings I's allus knowed.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

[Screwball]

A great story and A Death Song.



Thirsty wins at Intertron.

I owe ya another drink for that one.

Rock On, Amigo, Rock On.

[peetie44]

Thirsty,

Great story and lyrics!

CHEERS!

[TomSin]

drinking booze and smoking weed in cemetaries is some of the funnest shit to do and i recommened that everyone should do it at leats once. and always remeber to share with our deceased friends.

[frankennietzsche]

One of my absolute favorite drinking spots is Woodland Cemetary in Dayton.

Isn't at least part of William Clark Quantrill buried in Dayton?

[ThirstyDrunk]

One of my absolute favorite drinking spots is Woodland Cemetary in Dayton.

Isn't at least part of William Clark Quantrill buried in Dayton?

That is possible, but I've never heard of it. I know his bones are kind of scattered across the midwest, and if I remember right his skull is buried in Dover Ohio, where he was born.

[frankennietzsche]

Dover. Sorry, I was thinking that it was Dayton. They both have 'd's in them, you see.

[ThirstyDrunk]

Saturday was my buddy Millers birthday and he decided to meet us in Woodland cemetary. He lasted about an hour, then I think the haints got to him - or maybe it was the flask of Old Ezra.
This was the last we saw of him.

[peetie44]

A few from the archives:

[ThirstyDrunk]

Peetie, I thinks them is witches!

Heres me wit ma graveyard girl


Heres StumblingDoug on the hallowed ground of Queen Matilda, Queen of the Gypsies

[Negromancer]

I've been drunk in graveyards, but haven't actually been drinking in one...

EDIT: It's all coming back to me now... I can vaguely remember stumbling around the local churchyard with a happy meal(that is to say, really really cheap vodka here), stumbling over the occasional tombstone.