I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE ... ( 6 min read )
.....A BEER CAN !
It’s Friday May 21 1988, the Edmonton Oilers are one game away from hoisting their 4th Stanley Cup, 4 Stanley Cups right in a row, wow truly an unstoppable combination of talent. But in Just 2 short months from then Wayne Gretzky gets married to an actress Janet Jones from Los Angeles, California.
Then 3 weeks after the marriage, Wayne has a press conference saying he’s leaving the Edmonton Oilers. He’s been traded to the L.A. Kings. At that moment, if you listen close, you heard hockey fans yell FUCK NO And hearts clear across Edmonton, broke into a thousand pieces. But if you think a city in outrage over a trade of their King was loud, well you haven’t heard my dad yell
Two days after that press conference you can hear a basement window on a south side Edmonton home slide open, what sounds like whispering can be heard from a distance. A couple of cases of Molsen Canadian beer is left out side the window, two arms reach out of the window and hands grab the case of beer and slowly pull it inside. You see, my sister and her 16 year old friends would have parties, they would drop the alcohol at the basement window and then go in the front door of the house walk by my parents “Hey Mr & Mrs C “ they would gleefully say as they ran down stairs all innocent looking. My Dad, no idiot, knew they had alcohol but couldn’t catch them drinking. The basement stairs were long and straight, by the time he got down stairs he had no evidence of alcohol. He calls in the big guns, he would say “little Gordie, suit up” well ok not really but that sounds good doesn’t it? I felt so cool being 11 years old and his spy, and I got to make $5 ! This Arnold gif is how it felt to suit up for my night
I would go charging downstairs, my sister Tracy, would yell for me to leave. Most times I left empty handed, But then there’s the time I got an empty beer can. Again like past descriptions, like Gollum to the ring, I grabbed my precious and ran upstairs “Dad! DAD! I got one ! They are drinking” I’d holler . Sometimes I’d make it up and other times my sister caught me first 😬 . One of these ways ended with me getting $5 ! The other way ended not so nice. My Dad would run down, yell and scream, give them trouble for drinking ect .
Yes that is insanity, because this would happen countless times l, over and over again. Nothing changed, they still snuck in Boose, I still “ suited up” to catch them , my Dad still freaked out and yelled 🤷🏼♂️
It was pretty crazy, this would happen 2-3 times a month. But I guess at the end of the day, all the kids were safe, no one drove. I’m sure my parents would have sooner had her at home drinking then some random house or bush party ? Obviously they couldn’t just roll over and allow all the drinking so they played along. Sent me down and I’d catch them. My dad would go play his role ect
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