Thread by @chrisantamaria

@VinceMancini one time he tried to pick me up from elementary school in his shitty 70's era Buick LeSabre (a.k.a. The Sled) by revving the engine and hollering expletives out the window

the kids were so terrified, they asked a teacher to make sure I wasn't getting kidnapped

@VinceMancini on my last day of 4th grade, before my folks got home from work, he played me a cassette of Alice Cooper’s “School's Out” on my boombox and then we shot a potato out of a homemade pvc pipe cannon fueled by Krylon fumes

@VinceMancini that summer he pulled out a sawed-off shotgun from the trunk of his sled and told me it was "hot" (I had no idea what that meant) and then proceeded to play Metallica's "Ride the Lightning" while we emptied a buckshot’s gunpowder on the ground and lit it on fire

it was insane

@VinceMancini he took me to my first NASCAR race where we snuck into the Dewalt promo tent and got kicked out because we started shotgunning Busch beers and snagging all the schwag

he screamed “I’M SORRY I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA!” as we bailed out lol

@VinceMancini shifting gears to skiing, he was so fearless and graceful on the mountain, carving out the most beautiful lines (we'd take shots of Hornito's just as the lifts opened)

before dropping in he'd say, “hitting that fresh powder is like diving into a warm rack"

@VinceMancini after a full day of runs we’d hit O’Bannon’s Pub, where you just left your sticks outside and kept your boots on all night

if someone asked how I knew RJ he’d yell “MY DNA IS FILTERING THROUGH THIS CLOWN!" and the bartender would shake her head and pour a round on the house

@VinceMancini my folks gave me John Lennon’s “Imagine” soundtrack for xmas and I didn’t take it seriously until I found him on my bedroom floor, hands behind his head, ankles crossed, blissfully listening to "In My Life"

dude hooked me into The Beatles then and there

@VinceMancini fuck man, I gotta take a break from this thread and clear my shit...