From Cindy
Rap 101
As most of you know, Adam was a big fan of rap music. It almost seemed that the more ridiculous the song the more Adam loved it. Eventually, Adam came to realize that I didn't know what the lyrics meant half of the time. Adam decided I needed to be educated in rap language, so anytime we were in the car he would quiz me on the different lyrics. For example, I learned that "make it rain" means throwing money at women and "suicide" refers to the way a car door opens. Unfortunately, these lessons are not helping me with the vocabulary section of the GRE but it was fun.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Riding Bikes
From Paul Thevenot
Back in the day, and still now, bike riding in Oak Park can be a bit risky. I remember at least a few times, we'd be riding bikes when a group of sketchy individuals would try to get our attention and begin chasing us, I believe to procure our bicycles. Of course, no big deal for Adam, catching him on a bike would have been impossible, even through college. I would have loved to get a sky cam view of these chases. Adam would be getting almost out of sight screaming at me to hurry up, while the hooligans were closing in. Luckily, we always escaped, after which Adam gave me pep talks and tips on faster riding.
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From Jonathan
This happened a couple times when Adam and I were riding. One time we got caught, and it was mostly my fault because I couldn't keep up. My bike was stolen but Adam's Mongoose wasn't. He let me take his bike back home to tell Mom and Dad while he walked. I was so pissed!
Back in the day, and still now, bike riding in Oak Park can be a bit risky. I remember at least a few times, we'd be riding bikes when a group of sketchy individuals would try to get our attention and begin chasing us, I believe to procure our bicycles. Of course, no big deal for Adam, catching him on a bike would have been impossible, even through college. I would have loved to get a sky cam view of these chases. Adam would be getting almost out of sight screaming at me to hurry up, while the hooligans were closing in. Luckily, we always escaped, after which Adam gave me pep talks and tips on faster riding.
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From Jonathan
This happened a couple times when Adam and I were riding. One time we got caught, and it was mostly my fault because I couldn't keep up. My bike was stolen but Adam's Mongoose wasn't. He let me take his bike back home to tell Mom and Dad while he walked. I was so pissed!
Friday, December 28, 2007
Conning Conn's
by Darren Fournerat
Most know that while Adam was working at Conn's some of his friends got some good deals. I was the beneficiary of a few and I know of a few other spectacular buys out there. I will speak of one inparticular. It was my freshman year in college and I needed a new computer; enter Conn's salesman of the century Adam Puckett. Through multiple phone calls to the corporate people (they had to grant the discounts) and talks to the manager by Adam, I had a new computer. Adam kept speaking to different people on the phone, each time explaining why he wanted a different discount approved. After working every angle possible, I had a new, top of the line computer for 35-40% under Conn's cost. Not 40% off, but nearly half of what Conn's paid for the computer. On top of that, we got 0% interest for a year. Adam seemed to relish the success of his schemes. And many schemes there were.
Most know that while Adam was working at Conn's some of his friends got some good deals. I was the beneficiary of a few and I know of a few other spectacular buys out there. I will speak of one inparticular. It was my freshman year in college and I needed a new computer; enter Conn's salesman of the century Adam Puckett. Through multiple phone calls to the corporate people (they had to grant the discounts) and talks to the manager by Adam, I had a new computer. Adam kept speaking to different people on the phone, each time explaining why he wanted a different discount approved. After working every angle possible, I had a new, top of the line computer for 35-40% under Conn's cost. Not 40% off, but nearly half of what Conn's paid for the computer. On top of that, we got 0% interest for a year. Adam seemed to relish the success of his schemes. And many schemes there were.
The Adam Puckett Alarm Clock
by Darren Fournerat
Adam used to ride is dirt bike over to my apartment and terrorize the neighborhood. On this particular day, my roommate was either sleeping late or taking a nap (the exact details escape me). Either way, Adam and I felt that the roommate shouldn't be wasting a good day and Adam took it upon himself to turn on his alarm clock. So Adam backed up his dirt bike to the window of my sleeping roommate and fired her up. He proceeded to rap it out multiple times in succession. If you know how loud Adams dirt bike was or any bigger two stroke bike is you can understand what the roommate was working with. Turns out it was a great alarm clock, only problem was the absence of a snooze button.
Adam used to ride is dirt bike over to my apartment and terrorize the neighborhood. On this particular day, my roommate was either sleeping late or taking a nap (the exact details escape me). Either way, Adam and I felt that the roommate shouldn't be wasting a good day and Adam took it upon himself to turn on his alarm clock. So Adam backed up his dirt bike to the window of my sleeping roommate and fired her up. He proceeded to rap it out multiple times in succession. If you know how loud Adams dirt bike was or any bigger two stroke bike is you can understand what the roommate was working with. Turns out it was a great alarm clock, only problem was the absence of a snooze button.
Camping
Darren Fournerat
I have many stories, but most of them are truly inappropriate. One, only borderline inappropriate, took place on a camping trip a few years back. The guys were sitting around the fire and Adam made the mistake of falling asleep in the camp chair. We took a few pictures to remind Adam why not to fall asleep first, if you can imagine. Adam awoke during the photo shoot much to his displease. We all had a good laugh at the pictures and Adam played it cool. But little did we know he had another photo shoot in mind. Sometime during the night he took the camera, erased the unfavorable pictures and took a few more of his own choosing. Later when we were breezing through the pictures of the trip, a few of the new pictures, to say the least, jumped out at you and were a bit disturbing. Adam was not to be outdone.
I'll leave it to imagination as to what all of the pictures were.
I have many stories, but most of them are truly inappropriate. One, only borderline inappropriate, took place on a camping trip a few years back. The guys were sitting around the fire and Adam made the mistake of falling asleep in the camp chair. We took a few pictures to remind Adam why not to fall asleep first, if you can imagine. Adam awoke during the photo shoot much to his displease. We all had a good laugh at the pictures and Adam played it cool. But little did we know he had another photo shoot in mind. Sometime during the night he took the camera, erased the unfavorable pictures and took a few more of his own choosing. Later when we were breezing through the pictures of the trip, a few of the new pictures, to say the least, jumped out at you and were a bit disturbing. Adam was not to be outdone.
I'll leave it to imagination as to what all of the pictures were.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Alabama Sports Festival
Sent in by Jeremy Puckett
About 5 years ago when Adam was 21, I invited him to play in a soccer tournament in Alabama called the Alabama sports festival. This tournament basically consists of all the best mens league soccer teams in the state that come to play in a 3 day tournament. The team I had been playing with entered the tournament and at the last minute had a few people drop out so I decided to call and see if adam could play. He said yes but since he wasn’t an Alabama resident we had to do a little doctoring on his application form so he could play. My teammates weren’t initially over excited about him coming because they didn’t know his skill level. Their tune changed real quick after that first game. I think he had 2 goals and an assist and flat out dominated the other team. The referees at this tournament were extremely lax in their foul calling which was like adding gasoline to the fire adam had already set. After adam figured this out in the first game he adjusted his playing style to something in between soccer and rugby. There were more bodies tossed around in that game than any other game I have ever been a part of. The team we were playing was quite a bit younger than us and they really started gunning for adam by the second half. There was this one particular play in the game where adam had the ball and was dribbling across the field when he noticed this guy on the other team coming full steam at him from behind to take him out. I guess the guy didn’t realize that adam knew he was coming which was a critical mistake on his part. Adam left the ball, quickly turned around and dropped his shoulder just as the guy was going to body check him and it literally looked like the guy ran into a brick wall at full speed. After adam hit him he proceeded to give the guy a 1 second stare that said,”lesson learned”. The timing on adam’s part was impeccable and was one of the hardest hits I have ever seen on the soccer field. No foul was called and play went on but the coolest thing about it was that jonathan was video taping the whole thing. When we watched it on tv when we got home, you could hear everyone in the background saying, “ooohhhhh” right after the hit took place. I think the three of us rewound and played that clip at least 30 times. It was great.
About 5 years ago when Adam was 21, I invited him to play in a soccer tournament in Alabama called the Alabama sports festival. This tournament basically consists of all the best mens league soccer teams in the state that come to play in a 3 day tournament. The team I had been playing with entered the tournament and at the last minute had a few people drop out so I decided to call and see if adam could play. He said yes but since he wasn’t an Alabama resident we had to do a little doctoring on his application form so he could play. My teammates weren’t initially over excited about him coming because they didn’t know his skill level. Their tune changed real quick after that first game. I think he had 2 goals and an assist and flat out dominated the other team. The referees at this tournament were extremely lax in their foul calling which was like adding gasoline to the fire adam had already set. After adam figured this out in the first game he adjusted his playing style to something in between soccer and rugby. There were more bodies tossed around in that game than any other game I have ever been a part of. The team we were playing was quite a bit younger than us and they really started gunning for adam by the second half. There was this one particular play in the game where adam had the ball and was dribbling across the field when he noticed this guy on the other team coming full steam at him from behind to take him out. I guess the guy didn’t realize that adam knew he was coming which was a critical mistake on his part. Adam left the ball, quickly turned around and dropped his shoulder just as the guy was going to body check him and it literally looked like the guy ran into a brick wall at full speed. After adam hit him he proceeded to give the guy a 1 second stare that said,”lesson learned”. The timing on adam’s part was impeccable and was one of the hardest hits I have ever seen on the soccer field. No foul was called and play went on but the coolest thing about it was that jonathan was video taping the whole thing. When we watched it on tv when we got home, you could hear everyone in the background saying, “ooohhhhh” right after the hit took place. I think the three of us rewound and played that clip at least 30 times. It was great.
Wal Mart Rental Program
Sent in by Jeremy Puckett
I was a junior in college when I had to take a business calculus class and was required to purchase a graphing calculator. Being the poor college student I was, I didn’t want to shell out $120 for something that was going to turn into a desk ornament right after I was done with the class so I started looking for other options. As I was telling adam about my dilemma, he said, “why don’t you just rent one from Wal-mart”. I asked him what he was talking about cause I had never heard of this before. He said for me to just go to walmart and buy the calculator, carefully take it out the package being extra careful not to damage the original packaging, use it for the semester in your class, place it back in the original packaging and take it back to wal-mart for a full refund of the $120. at this point, im thinking to myself, “why haven’t I come up with this idea before now”. So I proceeded to go through with this plan and it worked perfectly. I later found out that adam did this with quite a few products that were only needed on a “temporary rental basis”.
I was a junior in college when I had to take a business calculus class and was required to purchase a graphing calculator. Being the poor college student I was, I didn’t want to shell out $120 for something that was going to turn into a desk ornament right after I was done with the class so I started looking for other options. As I was telling adam about my dilemma, he said, “why don’t you just rent one from Wal-mart”. I asked him what he was talking about cause I had never heard of this before. He said for me to just go to walmart and buy the calculator, carefully take it out the package being extra careful not to damage the original packaging, use it for the semester in your class, place it back in the original packaging and take it back to wal-mart for a full refund of the $120. at this point, im thinking to myself, “why haven’t I come up with this idea before now”. So I proceeded to go through with this plan and it worked perfectly. I later found out that adam did this with quite a few products that were only needed on a “temporary rental basis”.
"The Dunky"
Sent in by Jared Garber
I could probably spend the whole afternoon writing about the exciting, ridiculous, inappropriate, screamingly funny, or just plain good times I had with Adam, but that would take hours upon hours. I could relate how funny it was when he completely leveled someone on the soccer field, how hard he, Paul Thevenot and myself laughed while making that video for their Fine Arts class, how exciting it was to win two state soccer championships (although he had a whole hell of a lot more to do with it than I ever did), the goofy times hanging out, or the ridiculous drunken escapades. Instead I’ll just tell what I always thought was one of the most excessive, hilarious, and good times we shared. I wouldn’t really call it family friendly though, so be warned.
Let’s go back to some terrible assembly in high school. We had some sort of guest speaker and while I don’t remember what he was talking about, I do remember he had some sort of speech impediment. Looking back, making fun of him pronouncing donkey as “dunky” wasn’t very nice, but I’ll be damned if we didn’t think it was hilarious.
That Friday night Adam, Paul, and I went out to do what high school guys do on the weekends: get into trouble. Lord only knows what we did that night but on the way home Adam steered the Yota (that wonderful Toyota hatch back he had for so long) into a garbage can on the side of the road. Oh, you should have seen the refuse fly from that thing! Of course we thought it was the funniest thing ever, and then it happened. Adam christened the hitting of the trash can as a “dunky.”
From that moment on our desire for dunkies was insatiable. We spent the rest of the night driving around ramming trashcans, screaming “dunky” and laughing hysterically. Over, and over, and over, and over. Toward the end of the night Adam had his window down and one dunky tossed something through the window at him, as quickly as possible the pushed it back out. As it turns out this was the drivers side mirror that had been broken off. Let’s just say his dad wasn’t pleased about this and I have no idea how he talked his way out of that one.
In what now seems like very poor taste, this went on for several evenings, one of which eventually culminated with all three of us standing in the Barbe parking lot with a police office making us call our parents from his cell phone. Honestly there was more mischief that led to that encounter, but only after getting somewhat tired of the dunkies. I won’t go into detail about that in order to save all our integrity as well as innocence.
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I remember when all this happened. Adam told my Dad that the mirror just got knocked off by somebody who either drove by or while parked at St. Louis. I heard the real story though, haha. Thanks a lot Jared for sending it in.
I could probably spend the whole afternoon writing about the exciting, ridiculous, inappropriate, screamingly funny, or just plain good times I had with Adam, but that would take hours upon hours. I could relate how funny it was when he completely leveled someone on the soccer field, how hard he, Paul Thevenot and myself laughed while making that video for their Fine Arts class, how exciting it was to win two state soccer championships (although he had a whole hell of a lot more to do with it than I ever did), the goofy times hanging out, or the ridiculous drunken escapades. Instead I’ll just tell what I always thought was one of the most excessive, hilarious, and good times we shared. I wouldn’t really call it family friendly though, so be warned.
Let’s go back to some terrible assembly in high school. We had some sort of guest speaker and while I don’t remember what he was talking about, I do remember he had some sort of speech impediment. Looking back, making fun of him pronouncing donkey as “dunky” wasn’t very nice, but I’ll be damned if we didn’t think it was hilarious.
That Friday night Adam, Paul, and I went out to do what high school guys do on the weekends: get into trouble. Lord only knows what we did that night but on the way home Adam steered the Yota (that wonderful Toyota hatch back he had for so long) into a garbage can on the side of the road. Oh, you should have seen the refuse fly from that thing! Of course we thought it was the funniest thing ever, and then it happened. Adam christened the hitting of the trash can as a “dunky.”
From that moment on our desire for dunkies was insatiable. We spent the rest of the night driving around ramming trashcans, screaming “dunky” and laughing hysterically. Over, and over, and over, and over. Toward the end of the night Adam had his window down and one dunky tossed something through the window at him, as quickly as possible the pushed it back out. As it turns out this was the drivers side mirror that had been broken off. Let’s just say his dad wasn’t pleased about this and I have no idea how he talked his way out of that one.
In what now seems like very poor taste, this went on for several evenings, one of which eventually culminated with all three of us standing in the Barbe parking lot with a police office making us call our parents from his cell phone. Honestly there was more mischief that led to that encounter, but only after getting somewhat tired of the dunkies. I won’t go into detail about that in order to save all our integrity as well as innocence.
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I remember when all this happened. Adam told my Dad that the mirror just got knocked off by somebody who either drove by or while parked at St. Louis. I heard the real story though, haha. Thanks a lot Jared for sending it in.
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