Thread by @VVission123

What are your thoughts on making Home furniture/Tables out of Drift Wood ? …

When I was 19 I drove out to Northern California, Berkeley to be exact. . The scenic route myself & A brother from A different mother took was Very Majestic. Many stops we made looked like A Bob Ross

Painting. .
We drove from EAST To West in A (88) (H)onda (A)ccord (H)atch, .@USArmy ….
1-2H
(3) As we finally made it to higher elevation, we realized right away that A car from 88’ & from the Mid-West didn’t have the proper Exhaust module so going over 40 MPH was Impossible.

We finally make it up to one of the highest points we would reach in our journey through Lake Tahoe, going 40 MPH for A little over an hour, I turn to my right (being the driver) to ask my bro, “How fast you think we can get this thing in Neutral before you/we get scared”? ..

After placing our bets with one another, I said about 88/89 & he said 101 …
I laughed at his reply, put it in Neutral & off we went—GERONIMO !!!

We’re both watching the speedometer go up & up, along with the CLIFF on the shoulder. .

Trucks/Cars that were passing

Us on the way up the mountain, flipping us off because of how slow we were going/how slow we had no choice but to go, WE WERE FLYING PAST THEM ON THE WAY DOWN IN NEUTRAL.

We finally reach our maximum Speed of 107MPH, it was right then & there we both knew turds creeped

Out of our backsides …

Bro in the passenger seat says, “Slow it down just A little bit before putting it back into gear” …
Yeah, No probably—I got this.

107-99, Alright here goes nothing!
I went up with the automatic shifter & not down into drive, we still had about half

Way to go down this mountain, THE CLIFFS WERE STILL IN THE THOUSANDS RANGE, I just put A 88 Honda Accord into REVERSE going about 99-97 MPH right as we’re going around A sharp bend !
Now, in my defense—When you push the Button on the shifter in those 88’-95’ Accords, many of

Them stick like this 88’s stuck. So with me having to PUSH THE BUTTON extra hard, it popped it into reverse & all hell broke lose for what seemed to be an eternity!
I’m sure some of you out there have accidentally put your car into reverse once or twice while driving the City

Streets going 25-35MPH, those who have know it isn’t the coolest feeling in the world to experience.

For about 3-5 Seconds we started fish tailing out in this hatch, if he didn’t have the weight he did in the back from all his stuff he was moving out to California with, that

Car would have for sure been into the guard rail.
A small 88’ Honda Hatch I Don’t THINK would break through A mountain Highways guard rail & Never wan to find out.

I regained full control of the vehicle (because my driving skills are 🤌… ;) ), slowed down to A whopping 47MPH,

Seen all the people that passed us on the way up, who we passed on the way dow, pass us again & I bet when they saw us this time around our faces were white as A ghost.
I Got off on the very first exit we could at the base of the Mountain, Lake Tahoe just got some snow but it

Was 77 Degrees outside 🤷‍♂️ … And by got some snow I mean they got about 9 feet of snow.

The exit we got off of, there was A building near by the lodge that had snow all the way up to it’s gutter, We both just got done cheating death so we decide to go do more stupid shit.

We both have never seen this much snow in our lives so we climbed to the top of this roof, I look at him & he looks at me—WE WERE BOTH THINKING THE SAME THING, #FLIP …

Before he could get the words out of this mouth, I took off like A 19 year old Rabbit & SWANton to my back in

About 81/5 feet of FLUFF/POWDER …
I d-G myself out, look up at A body falling directly above me into pretty much the hole I just put into the snow.
All I hear is F*** !!!!
My Ankle!!
He jumped into the same damn direction I jumped & ended up catching his leg/foot on

A giant block underneath the snow.

I was lucky enough to miss the block, him not so much…
I dug him out, carried him to the car & off we went finishing our journey to Berkeley.

We make it to Berkeley, he’s in pain & says all he wants to do is smoke some weed with

A magnifying glass using the sun …

10 minutes go by, he tells me he’s done for the day …
I kinda know my way around the Bay Area, I’m 19 & have endless amounts of energy so I decide to take the #Bart into Downtown San Francisco to go skate around A little bit.

I meet some

Cool folks & some not so cool folks … I was sitting at the stairs leading down into the train station(BART), the stairs leading down just so happened to be A famous skate spot EVERYONE skates, it’s Brick Quarter pipes attached to the hut looking ordeal that covers the stairs

Leading down into the Bart station.
I homeless woman come up to me, asks me if I had any change. I replied I did not. I did have A little bit of money on me but thought to myself I have to make 200 dollars last for 1 month or until I found some work.
The woman dressed in

Some of the worst RAGS I have ever seen someone where, she comes back up to me after I said I didn’t have anything I could spare, PULLS HER PANTS DOWN 6-12 Inches away from my face & repeatedly starts yelling “how much can you spare now” !?!? Spit is flying through the

3 Teeth she has as I’m trying desperately not to get swallowed by A womans Rainforest undercarriage… It was A close call, the people around me I just met said the woman is always around this area. After running off, I felt bad so I skated down the street in the direction I saw

Her go into so I could give her some money. . .
I never found her. .
From that day forward, anytime I passed A homeless man/Woman I gave .. Whether it was money or food/water I had, I would give it all away.

I finally make it to This driftwood beach to relax after having

The day I just had, from the Mountain, too the ankle, Bart ride, Lady almost swallowing me whole—The sun starts to come up & all I see is DRIFT WOOD & A 400+ foot cliff behind me.
At night on some of these beaches you can’t see much of anything even with the fire …

I said to myself, 1 DAY I’m going to come down here & grab so much of this Drift Wood so I can build some of the coolest furniture for my home, where ever that may be in the future/(Present)..

After having that thought, I start running down the beach towards the random

Guys vehicle that brought us down to the beach & kick A jelly fish the size of A Basketball.

I started laughing, Guy saw it happen & yelled “DUDE I MIGHT HAVE TO PISS ON YOU”!!!

I laughed, said if he took his Johnson out I would put that jellyfish on it & he could piss on

Himself. .
I ended up not needing to be p’D on or needing medical anything, got in the car & we left.

& That is why I want one of our first stops to be this really amazing driftwood beach. .
I have some ashes I want to spread there too but it’s 2 heck of A time.

THE END

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