I like my coffee black, please. Good ta see all ya'll and find everbody a-ok. Hamp, oh Hamp, aint ever had a cup of coffee I didn't like, some more, some less. Got a coffee story fer you folks.
Was back in '67, location was a bayou otside Homa, louisana. As thay use to say on DUM-DE-DUM DUM, Dragnet, I was workin a weekend phone shift fer a Insurance company, I was a claims adjuster.
Got a call 10:30 Friday evening from Lane-Texas one of our clients. They had a boy drown comin back from a rig. I got all tha info and made it to Houma bout 1 AM, down at tha corerner place. They was fixin to do an autopsy.
Seems tha crew boat was bringing in the day shift. They was pushin Lane Texas' truck on a barge along side the crew boat. There was a two man crew on the rig that was doing tha well test. They had been sittin in tha truck and decided to get a cup of coffee. They crossed from tha barge to the crew boat got their coffee and was headed back to tha truck.
The driver got in an was drinking his coffee, didn't pay no attention his pard was not in tha cab, figured he stopped to take a whiz. after awhile he got to lookin fer him. They found him floatin in tha bayou.
It was a suspeciouse death and they wanted to do an autopsy. Bout 4 AM the cornerer ruled accidential drowning. But I had to interview all tha folks from tha boat.
Made it down to the dock to pick up the crew boat and go out to the rig. The crew that was comin in was the same crew goin back that moring, so I figured gettin all tha witness statements was goin to be easy.
All of a sudden none of them boys could speak anything but that cajun French. I had to interview 10 or 12 boys thru an interperter. Tha funny part was they was talkin english pretty good til they found out what I wanted.
Got to tha rig an found tha head guy. He asked me if i wanted a cup of coffee. YES- hadn't had one all night, it was bout 8AM by now.
That rigman threw a bucket into tha bayou and pulled up a slime covered bucket of water. Poured some into a pan, threw in a handfull of community (dark roast) coffee and brung it ta boil. Then he poured me a cup. Kept me awake fer two days i'm tellin ya.
Blessings