Jet ski

The first big "toy" that Adam purchased for himself was a Yamaha jetski. I remember when he came home from taking it out for the first time he had to clean it off. We had just gotten married so we had all these new, nice bath towels. I walked outside and Adam was drying the jetski off with our brand new bath towels. It didn't even cross his mind that he shouldn't do that. He just looked at me with this "What did I do wrong?" face. I think he pulled it with the boat once too when all off the old towels were dirty! I forgive you. Love you so much!

Guilty

I was making the bed today and remembered why Adam used to make the bed. Anytime Adam was in trouble with me, he knew if I came home and our bedroom was clean and the bed was made it would put a smile on my face and get him out of trouble. He would always have this proud look on his face when I came home. It was so cute!

Loose Screw

After Adam had his knee surgery, the doctor recommended us getting a bath bench for Adam to sit on in the tub so his leg that was operated on would not get wet. I finally found one at Bed, Bath, and Beyond and had the onerous task of putting that damn thing together. It had about a million screws and I did my best to follow the directions precisely. I had the whole bench put together but for some reason the middle screw just wouldn't tighten. It stayed in place so I figured that was good enough. So our first time using it, Adam sat down on it and halfway through his bath we hear a loud "ding." The middle screw fell out and Adam just gave me this look like "Why the hell did I let you put this together?" We both laughed about it in the end. I miss you and love you Adam!

Pranks

I just thought of this running prank or joke that Adam and I used to pull. I guess this was when I was about 9 or 10 and he was 13. My parents would always ask us if it was clear behind the car when backing up. For some reason we said "yeah, there's just an old lady in a wheelchair" and I think my parents believed us the first few times, but they caught on eventually. So from that point on, anytime somebody would ask us that question, we'd always say that, even recently. I caught myself saying it the other day and remembered how it all started.

I guess it's a good thing there never was an old lady in a wheelchair behind the car...

Big Smile!!

I just heard a big truck toot his horn......I figured it was Adam telling Whitney hello and not to forget about him. Like we ever will. The sound of a train horn never sounded so sweet.

PLAYSTATION – GAME DAY 98

Sent in by Jason Garcille

I can’t remember exactly when it was, but somewhere around our sophomore year at LSU Adam and I really became great friends. That year, I lived at Bluebonnet Place apartments and Adam lived in the condo just around the corner off Gardere. Needless to say, we spent a lot of time hanging out together. One of our favorite things to do was play Game Day 98, drink beer and eat Zapps. Adam had one team and one team only that we would play with and it was the Cowboy’s. (Jonathon… I’m sure you know where I’m going with this one.) Adam would use the “punt block” formation while playing defense on every play, which basically shut down most every play I could throw at him. Needless to say, I would get so angry because I hated to lose (which I always did), and Adam did a good job rubbing it in… over and over again. I don’t know why I kept playing him, maybe the hope that I would one day figure it out, but I never did.

Memories

Sent in by Suzette D'Amico

Where do you begin with memories of “Puckett”? I have so many to have known him for such a short time. He was the only ray of sunshine that Katrina brought to us at “the Whitney”. We put him in a back office, but of course he didn’t stay there. It wasn’t long before he had wormed his way into our hearts like I’ve heard he did all of his life. And how thankful we were that he did!

All you had to do was mention something that you were thinking about buying and before you knew it, he told you where to go , what to buy and how much to pay for it. Oh, and if there was a coupon you could use.

He knew no age barrier. He made you feel special when you were around him. And of course, he made me laugh!!!! He’d come back from lunch at home with Cindy and sit at my desk and talk about his new ventures. I always wondered why he went home everyday for lunch. And then I met Cindy. He was crazy about her.

Adam was always in to something. He was so proud of his CD’s that he was making for the Episcopal Soccer team and wanted me to see them. His mind was racing when he told me what he was going to do for the next season, smiling the whole time he was talking. He was so full of life.

One time he came back from lunch and begged me to go out to the parking lot to see his new toy. He had gotten rid of his jet ski and bought a beautiful red “crotch-rocket”. Of course I didn’t know what that term meant and he got a kick out of that. Another time, he had something else to show me. This time it was a new little puppy in the back of the Tahoe. How he loved his dogs. And only Puckett would teach him how to fetch a beer.

We went to Happy’s a few times and I found out how “thrifty” he was. He wasn’t fond of paying $6 for a beer. So he found out that he could get a PBR for $2. I didn’t know that they even made that any more!

We had a Christmas lunch and he got Cindy to make her delicious cake squares. I was out of the office that day. He was quick to let me know that they had forgotten to tell him when lunch was served, but ate Cindy’s dessert anyway. He was crushed. From then on, I had to make sure that he wasn’t left out of anything. He hated to miss anything.

He’d call when he was at home with his banged up knee and was bored. He’d talk to anyone who he could get on the phone. He’d go down the list. What storied he had to tell!! I don’t know if he saw all of the movies on his list. I hope so.

One day we decided that we were going to go to lunch even if there were flash flood warnings. We let him drive…..OMG!!! We were floating down Government Street. He was having a ball. I can still hear him laughing at us for panicking when water was up to the door. Always living on the edge.

It’s amazing that water brought him into my life and water took him from me. I’m sure that there’s some symbolism in that. Maybe it was because of his love of the water. I don’t know, but I will always remember him and his smile and how his eyes seemed to laugh when he did.

Adam, I miss you.

Suzette