Bill Tait’s Blog

My good friend Thomas was a happy go lucky kinda guy. He was smarter than most of my friends carrying two master’s degrees. Both in engineering, one in electrical and the other in physical. He had a great job working for the government in Crystal City, Virginia just across the river from D.C. He was ….  Read More

Oh, way back in my youth I dated this nice gal named Jenny. She was from Annapolis Maryland and her parents still live there on the Chesapeake Bay. It was an old farmhouse circa 1840-1850, pre-civil war but totally renovated. Every spring her family all got together at her parents’ house for a Memorial Day ….  Read More

After finally getting past the Ohio PO PO I made it down to Atlanta. Midnight, dark, and raining in downtown Atlanta. A small on ramp in a terrible neigorhood on I-75 south. Not a lot of prospects for a ride but my journey to Florida continues. Near one am a car swerved to a stop ….  Read More

On our way back to D.C. from Richmond we were stopped by the Virginia State Police. We were travelling on I-95 I-95 was a known drug mule route traveling straight up the east coast. We had packed a picnic lunch and were going to stop somewhere nice for a break. Even though it only takes ….  Read More

My girlfriend Mary and I were travelling down to Columbus Georgia one fine fall day. It was a long trip from D.C. all the way to southwestern Georgia and we weren’t in any big hurry, it being a fine fall day with the sun shining and a soft gentle breeze blowing, so we wanted to ….  Read More

Many years ago, think wayback, Joyce and I traveled to Chicago for Mark and Barbs wedding. After driving all day and arriving around 3:30, checking in to the hotel, a quick trip to the liquor store, and cracking my first beer the phone rings. It’s my brother Bob, you know like Bob Dylan, and he ….  Read More

It starts in Jamaca and ends in Siberia, well almost. We met two young German Marines while on vacation in Montego Bay Jamaca. Thay were part of our small group that were the first ten people to show up at the beach bar at our resort. We all started to hangout together and did alot ….  Read More

Being new in town, and looking for a job, I was hitting every bar and restaurant om M street in Georgetown Wash D.C. A welcoming sign reading draft beer .95 caught my eye and I went in for two reasons, one to apply for a job and the other for a cold beer. Upon entering ….  Read More

Back when I was a wee little lad of eighteen I started bartending at The Saloon in Georgetown Washington D.C.. After working in the kitchen for two years when I turned 18 Commy, my boss, made me a bartended. I started in the daytime working lunches were it was slower paced and slowly worked my ….  Read More

We were down in South Carolina playing one of the many courses on a fine afternoon. It was a skins game between Phil and I and Jack and Paul with all skins carrying over, and Phil and I were down by three. With an eight skin carry over on the fifteenth hole I knew I ….  Read More