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The Rugby Team Bed Push
The Rugby Team Bed Push
1980 - 15 Years Old
Our rugby team needed to raise money for our new team jerseys. We needed 20, for the first 15 and the 5 substitutes. That meant 95 pounds for 19 shirts plus whatever it would cost for a shirt that would fit our big fat bastard of a #8, Patrick Zydyrko.
Now in America, they would hold a bake sale, with a cake walk, and maybe a kissing booth.
I’d been to such a fundraiser for our church on the American base. No kissing booth, of course, as Catholics aren’t allowed to kiss until they are married.
But kissing red-velvet cupcakes was almost as good.
If we were being honest, a kissing booth with Cathy Hughes and Kieran would have really raked it in.
But Mr. Longman, our rugby coach came up with a “better” idea: a 23-mile bed push, from our school to Warwick Castle.
The Song:
THE BODYSNATCHERS
LET’S DO ROCK STEADY
1980
UK CHART POSITION: #9
