The paramedic lady was trying to convince him that he needed stitched up. Jamie didn’t think so, and I know that the only thing running through his mind was getting packed up so he could make the trip to the next town (which was going to be our Tuesday night show at the Louisville Gardens). Well, I think the paramedic lady thought that his reluctance to get stitched up was an indication that he wasn’t thinking straight, so she started in with the usual questions.

She says, "What’s your name?" He said, "JC Ice." She didn’t like that answer and so he said, "Sorry, it’s Jamie Dundee." Her next question was, "Who was the president of the United States?" That threw him for a loop. OK, we should all know that question off the top of our heads but lack of blood sometimes makes you feel a bit woozy and he missed that one. So now we have a situation here: he’s one question up and one question down. That means she had to ask him one more question and sure enough she chose the dreaded "What day is it" question. Jamie knew that would be a critical question, and he knew if he missed it they would take him off to the hospital whether he wanted to go or not.

I remember him looking around to all the boys and I know I personally was mouthing the words, "Monday - it’s MONDAY!" But he was still dazed and stalling. I thought for sure he was going to the hospital. Like a true wrestling professional, he made the last minute save and gave her an answer that wasn’t exactly to her question but it showed the fact that he knew where he was and where he had to go. Jamie piped up and says, "I can’t tell you what day it is, but I know I’m in the Mid South Coliseum and I have to be in the Louisville Gardens tomorrow night!" I remember trying not to laugh, as were the rest of the boys. We knew that he answered a question, just not the one she asked. Luckily, that answer satisfied her and she let him go.

Bon Jovi wrote a song in the 80s called "Dead or Alive," and he talks about traveling all night just to get back home. He also sang, "Sometimes you tell the day, by the bottle that you drink." Now I’m not saying that we didn’t drink tons of beer on the road but we weren’t so bad that we didn’t know where we were and where we were supposed to be. Sometimes, we just had to relate to what day it was based on what we were doing, not so much by what the calendar said.

The same thing happens for crossing time zones. We ran the territory in Eastern and Central time zones and depending on where we were traveling too, we either had to compensate for losing or gaining an hour. That’s enough to mess with anyone’s head.

I can see that I’m almost out of space again. I wanted to try and squeeze in some beer stories. I’ll save that for next month, but I can tell you it was both Doug Gilbert and Tommy Rich who taught me to never leave a sip of beer left in the bottom of the can or bottle because it messes up your "flow." I’ll tell you more about the flow next month.

Hopefully some of these stories are entertaining for you, especially if you have seen or watched tapes of the USWA. I really wanted to make the 10/27 show for NWA Wildside because Tommy "Wildfire" Rich is going to be on the card, and I did have an opportunity to do that show but I’ll be in Denver for those two weeks. It’s only a matter of time though before I see Doug or Tommy again, and I plan on getting some of their road stories from the USWA. So, hopefully, I’ll have some more to tell you in the next few months.

As for next month, we’ll talk about "the flow" and since we’re coming up on the winter months, I want to tell you the "ice fields" stories and what it was like driving through the territory during some of the bad ice storms in the South during the mid 90s.