Tucker goes to hockey game, causes trouble
by: Tucker Max
09/20/04
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STORY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT. FUNNY AS HELL, BUT EXPLICIT.
Sometimes even I need a night off, and after an intense Thursday and Friday
hanging out with JoJo, I decided to spend a relaxing Saturday hanging out with a
friend of mine from high school who happened to be in town that night. We'll
call him "Mark."
He shows up at my place around 4pm with a 30-pack of Old Style, which we manage
to polish off rather quickly. As I am trying to decide how to steal some more
beer from my neighbors, a commercial comes on for a regional professional hockey
team, which coincidentally has a game in two hours. Mark wants to go see hockey.
He considers it the best idea of all time. I disagree. I want a relaxing night.
Somehow he manages to convince me that drinking 15 beers and then going to a
hockey game can qualify as a "relaxing night."
But not only does he want to go to the hockey game, he desperately wants to
bring the CamelBak, having read about it in the
UT Weekend Story. I pause and
consider my options. I can:
A) refuse to go anywhere, knowing myself well enough to see that this night is
obviously on course to become a catastrophic trainwreck.
B) agree to go to the hockey game, but refuse to bring along the CamelBak,
because it will quite obviously result in my early demise.
C) say "fuck it," throw all caution and temperance to the wind, go to the game
with the CamelBak full of Tucker Death Mix, and dare the consequences of my
actions to catch up with me.
You've probably read some of my other stories, what do you think I did?
I load up the CamelBak with Tucker Death Mix [Everclear, Red Bull and Gatorade],
but this time, instead of Everclear, I use real Kentucky moonshine. My mother
lives in Kentucky, and one of her neighbors makes moonshine in his barn.
Seriously.
We arrive at the arena fully shit-housed. We don't have tickets, and the only
scalper we can find has got to be the dirtiest, poorest, shittiest looking crack
addict in Chicago. He is trying to sell two ratty tickets. They look like he got
them with a McDonald's Super Value meal. This does not stop me from bargaining
with him. I am a master negotiator, especially when drunk:
Tucker "How much for the tickets?"
Crack fiend "40 each."
Tucker "Get the fuck outta here? Do we get a handjob too? Are you kidding? I'll
give 20. Total."
Crack fiend "Awww, come'on man. Deez is good seaats, yo."
Tucker "You know...scalping is illegal."
Crack fiend "Man, don gimme dat shit. Deez is 8th row, at the co'na."
Tucker "40 is steep. After all, you're just going to spend the money on crack."
Crack fiend "Man, fuck you."
We settle on $40 total, find our seats right before the game starts, and much to
my displeasure, there are about 10 women total in the entire arena. Not that we
came to the game to pick up girls, but there is always that hope. I loudly say
to Mark, "Jesus H Christ. What the fuck is this; Gay Hockey Night?" These two
dorks on the left look at me horrified, while the old guys on the right start
laughing. Fuck the idiots on the left.
We start talking to the old guys, bitching about women and whatnot. One of them
starts telling us a story. "Yeah, I was with these two beautiful girls the other
night. Wonderful girls. The night was going great until they started using all
sorts of horrible four-letter words. Horrible, horrible four letter words, like
"can't"..."won't"..."don't"..."stop." Horrible, horrible four letter words."
These old guys were cracking us up. Of course, we were quickly approaching
Tucker Max Drunk; a dancing Tele-Tubby would probably have had us in tears.
Because I can see the entertainment value from miles away, I start talking to
the low-rent Jude Law on my left. I immediately wanted to punch him in the face.
He was one of those annoying psuedo-intellectuals; horn-rimmed glasses, drinks
Pinot Grigio by the glass at bars, buys poetry books but never reads them,
avoids red meat, shops at the Kiehls counter, acts indignantly offended by
Howard Stern, like to drop names like "Foucault" and "Sartre" in normal
conversation. We all know one or two. I kept laughing to myself, because he
looked exactly like Chachi from Happy Days. He thought he was better than me
because I was drunk and acting like an idiot, while he was composed and polite.
Yeah, I got something for him.
He condescendingly asks me what I do, and I tell him I'm a writer. Then the fun
began:
Him "Really? I used to be a writer, until I went to law school." A fastball down
the middle.
Me "Really? I never would have guessed. Where'd you go to law school?"
Him "The University of Texas."
Me "Well, I guess not everyone can go to a good school. So what did you write?"
Him "Mostly freelance think-pieces for magazines and newspapers."
Me "So you were an out-of-work copy editor?"
Him "Uh...no. My last piece was published in the Utne Reader."
IS THIS GUY FUCKING SERIOUS?
Me "I bet you're very proud." I laughed, but he just ignored me. "So what do you
do now?"
Him "Uh...well, I'm a lawyer. That's why I went to law school."
Me "Suuuper. So, Chachi, where are you from?"
Him "I'm from Texas."
Me "I bet you were real popular there."
He didn't respond. Mark and I order a couple more beers. The game was boring, so
I keep fucking with Chachi. His aggravation is growing visibly, but he's the
type that signs anti-sweatshop petitions, so I'm not concerned about any
forthcoming violence. I continue:
Me "I've been to Texas. I liked it. But I've heard some strange things about the
laws there. You're a lawyer: Is it true that you can have open containers in the
car, as long there is one less than the number of people in the car?"
Him "Uh...I'm not really sure. We didn't really study that in law school."
Me "Did you ever drink?"
Him "Uh...yeah."
Me "And you never drove afterwards?"
Him "Uh...no."
Me "You don't believe all that Mothers Against Drunk Driving propaganda do you?"
He ignored me, so I continued, "Is it true that in Texas you can shoot someone
if you find them sleeping with your wife?"
Him "No, that's not true. It's a myth."
Me "I don't know Chachi, I think it's true. What about if you come home, and you
find a guy on your porch, nosing around, and your wife is inside, and she's
naked. Can you shoot him then?"
Him "No."
Me "What about your wife, can you shoot her?" He didn't answer. "What if there's
a guy in your yard, and he's naked, and he's looking at you funny. I bet you can
shoot him then."
Him "No, you can't."
Me "What if some guy is on your porch, and he's dancing all funny, like a
hippie, and your wife thinks he's attractive? Can you shoot either of them? What
is the self-defense standard in Texas--'He needed killin'?'"
Him "What? Are you serious?"
Me "I'm just trying to figure out the law here buddy. You never know when you
might have to come out blazing."
He and his friend get up and leave, but he leaves his beer in the cup holder. As
soon as he was out of sight, I pour half his beer into mine, finish it off, and
head to the bathroom. When I get there, I see Chachi standing at the urinal, so
I bust out in song:
"THE STARS AT NIGHT, ARE BIG AND BRIGHT [CLAP] [CLAP] [CLAP] [CLAP] DEEP IN THE
HEART OF TEXAS!!"
He looks over, not amused. I make a little gun with my thumb and index finger,
point it at him, and go "POW!" He is even less amused. Fuck him if he can't take
a joke.
The second period comes around, and Chachi doesn't return to his seat, so I
finish his beer. He's not going to need it. Mark is busy sucking on the CamelBak,
and appears ready to slip into a coma. Then it happens, that defining moment
that I wait for every time I go out drinking:
Right before the second intermission, some guy comes up and asks our section if
anyone wants to go on the ice and shoot pucks against the mascot,
"OH ME ME ME!! I WANT TO DO IT!! ME ME ME!!"
The guy kinda stares at me hesitantly, but since no one else in the 1/4 full
section dares get up and challenge my drunken enthusiasm, I become the chosen
one. I get down to the staging area behind the penalty box, and the other two
participants are a girl who was so skinny she looked like she spent three weeks
on the Miami 48-hour Miracle Diet, and a fat guy who uncannily resembled the
Comic Book Guy from The Simpson's. I asked him if he owns a comic book store,
and I guess this is a joke he's heard often, because he got kinda mad at me.
Unsure of how to react to his visible anger, I say "Worst. Reaction. Ever." This
didn't help.
The waifish usher explains the rules to us: We get a hockey stick and a puck,
and are allowed to take one shot against the mascot, this big, furry, dog
looking thing. Anyone who scores gets tickets to the next game. I chime in,
Tucker "I don't want to go to the next game. This place sucks."
Usher [stares at me with contempt for a minute] "You can't take your beer on the
ice with you."
Once on the ice I flip off the crowd, and start my advance on the mascot. Right
before I am about to shoot the puck, genius strikes me.
I hurl my stick at the mascot to confuse him, kick the puck into the goal,
tackle the mascot into the net, pull his jersey over his head, and start
delivering directed body shots into his ribs.
Raise your hand up if you've ever heard a professional team mascot say "What
they fuck are you doing, you asshole?"
I'm not sure if I have ever laughed so hard as when this big fuzzy brown head
let loose with a rapid fire barrage of curse words. I am so in tears laughing at
him, that I can barely keep up giving him body shots. Of course, my laughter
only makes him madder, and I eventually lose the upper hand. He gets me rolled
over and ends up on top of me. He is now completely engrossed in the fight, and
starts hitting me back, all while I am laughing hysterically.
The crowd went nuts. I mean honestly--picture this scene in your head.
The entire time, the announcer is standing 10 feet away, completely dumbfounded.
He had no idea what to do or say, until the mascot got on top, when he finally
comes over and pulls the mascot off of me. It actually took him a few minutes to
get the mascot composed. The mascot had completely lost his shit; he wanted to
keep fighting me, especially after I got up and threw my hands in the air,
receiving boisterous cheers from the crowd.
I was escorted off the ice, to continued cheers, when someone who appeared to be
in charge started throwing around a lot of words like "assault" and "battery." I
paused, staring at him while I composed my thoughts, and said,
Tucker "I'm sorry, but I stand by my decision. I am now a member of the elite
club of people that have fought a professional team mascot. You sir, are not in
that club."
He stared at me, completely silent, for what seemed like three or four minutes,
and then just turned and walked away. I was kicked out of the arena, and told not
to ever come back.
I had to wait by the car for a good hour and a half until dumbass Mark came
stumbling out. When I asked him why he was so late, and didn't leave when I was
kicked out, he looked at me strangely and said,
"You got kicked out? What did you do?"
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