For an intoduction to Old West Tales, click here: Old West Tales - IntroductionBrian started our Sophomore year with a girlfriend that he met over the summer. She was going to Western Carolina. Western Carolina is in Cullowhee, NC. I know this because that is what our phone bill said, line after line. Brian would stretch the telephone cord out the door, and sit out in the middle of the suite smoking cigarettes and talking to his girlfriend all night. He would also go to visit her in his "Wheel of Fortune" car.
That's right, when Brian was in highschool he won a small domestic car on "Wheel of Fortune". He didn't just win the car, he bought it with the money he won on the show. I have seen the tape. Brian spun $2,000 and guessed the letter "D". The puzzle was "Don't drink and drive". At the end of the show Brian won a trip to Hawaii by solving the puzzle "Born in the USA" with very few letters showing. Watching the tape, I wouldn't have gotten it.
Brian loved the Beatles, particularly John Lennon. Brian had based his hair style on a photo of John Lennon. This is ironic because Brian definitely got YOKO'd by his girlfriend. I don't remember the exact sequence, but it all started when he began dating this girl. Brian's parents got really freaked out about possible drug use and whatever was going on in that liberal hippie commune that is known as Chapel Hill. Brian was yanked out of school and never came back for the second semester. I thought that it was a bit of an overreaction because Brian was one of the few underclassmen writing for the Daily Tar Heel, had great grades, and really didn't do all that many drugs.
Although I was sad to see Brian go, our triple had become a double and Vic and I actually had a little elbow room. Student housing promised us that we would not get a new roomate. They lied.....
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