sammy kirk so far

Sammy's Stories (So far)

The following two stories are as extracted from Sam's letter received on 23 July 2001

I am sorry I haven't many tales about Xmas Island, except for the time we were at Poland Beach and I tried to be clever by diving into a giant roller. Somehow it got under and behind me and threw me over the reef. All I could think about at the time was, "here I am, 44 days to do on the Rock and I'm going to drown or be eaten by sharks, because at the time there were plenty about.

No one could get out to me because the waves were so fierce and huge. Suddenly this huge roller picked me up and threw me back on shore. Although the temperature at the time was over 100F in the shade. I sat on the beach shivering for the rest of the day. Talk about a close call.

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Then there was the time when I felt a bit depressed so I went to the RAF Club. I asked the barman for a pint glass and told him to put a shot of every spirit & liqueur that he had behind the bar into the glass. The end result was 24 tots of "Liquid Nitrogen". It looked like oil that had been in an engine for about 50 years. As I sat at the bar sipping this lethal concoction an Engineer Cpl (a Scouse) came in half pi***d and asked what I was drinking, and I just said a "Kirk Special". He said "Looks weird, let's have a taste" so I said "Go ahead". Anyway, he had a quick gulp, put the glass down on the bar, licked his lips and said "Bloody Hell" and just collapsed out Sparkers.

I finished the rest of it and left the bar. When I got outside the night air hit me, I dropped to my knees and started to crawl down the road towards my billet. As I was halfway home a Landrover came along and hit me up the backside and shot me along the tarmac at a rate of knots, removing large areas of skin from my elbows and knees. It was a good thing it was Friday night because I was able to spend all weekend in bed to recover from my wounds and get over the Mother of all Hangovers.

Chatty's comments. I've known Sam for over 40 years, and I'm really surprised that he got that drunk!!!!!!! Not like him!!!!!!!