We all had such a great time on the cruise that the buzz was already in the air about making plans to all get back together one weekend once we were back. Two weekends after our legendary cruise, Paul and I decided to head to Gatesville for Halloween, Donella and Sherman were also coming into town.
Friday night was fairly quiet, just a few drinks on the back porch and Paul LOVING his momma's cooking that night (we just didn't understand!), but Saturday night we had plans to hit up the Gatesville VFW club for some ice cold beer, live music, dancing, and FIREBALL. Little did we know, the night would also turn into a campaign party!
Phil and Karen happen to live in Waco which is only a short drive from Gatesville and Paul's sister Amy decided to come in from Belton. Being from Beaumont, I was familiar with the concept of a VFW hall as they are plentiful in my neck of the woods however; I think Lori's description of it was pretty hilarious. "Well, it is a room smaller than our house with folding chairs and tables. The ceiling is about 9 ft tall and the top two feet are filled with cigarette smoke, but don't worry Sam, you are so short the smoke will not even reach you."
As cold as the beer was, it wasn't long before it was smoothly flowing through all of us, the plan of the night was to take over the bar - and that is exactly what we did! During a break the lead singer of the band came over to our table to thank us for being there and for constantly being on the dance floor. Next thing we knew (I am still not even sure how this happened) the singer motioned for me to walk over to the stage and he asked what Paul's name was. "Ladies and Gentlemen, tonight we have Mr. Paul Stafford in the house - let's give him around of applause." After a loud round of applause and a few loud "WHOOP WHOOP"'s our poor waitress came over and asked who in the world Paul Stafford was?! That's when we decide to tell her he was running for office, little did we know there actually WAS a Paul Stafford running for office in Dallas!
The waitress quickly came back and said she had googled him and found his campaign page but could not find a picture of him. Without thinking I just replied "And you probably wont, as his campaign manager we pay a lot of money to ensure his picture isn't all over the internet. Why do you think we are out and about in Gatesville at the VFW? No one knows him here so please don't tell anyone!" She insisted she would not, and thus the fun continued.
The more beer that went down, the more shots that were ordered, the more animated and into full campaign character mode we all got. Paul even decided he needed to get on stage to give a speech and the band agreed to it! In his speech he decided to thank "Platinum Phil" and call him up on stage as well. I think the rest of us were far too busy laughing and hollering to hear what either one of them said but we certainly had everyone in VFW hall convinced that these two were celebrities (even if in their own mind)
The night got a little fuzzy for us all after that - but stay tuned because we promised everyone at the VFW a campaign/victory party in a few weeks! (Even if the REAL Paul Stafford candidate lost the election - our Paul Stafford will not!) :)
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