Since GSR siad she had never heard the LORIN STORY I thought I'd tell it again.
As bswift and I were getting ready for DW01 I get an email from bswift asking if we had room in the truck/camper for one more, he'd been emailed by a DRNer about riding up with us. bswift said that ""Lorin" had asked for a ride. I replied with the usual Heartland Spode answer of the more the merrier. A couple of weeks went by and we began getting things in order, making arrangements etc. I emailed them both with the ssome details. I had never met "Lorin". I told them both that I would sleep in front of the camper and they could sleep in the backroom. After thinking about it I thought "lorin" might be a lady. Bswift had never said. I thought it would be best to send another email back to them telling them that I'd sleep in the back with bswift and "lorin" could have the front by themself.
Bswift then replied back asking "what do you mean". I then got concerned that I'd made a fool of myself and that "lorin"might be a man. Being concerned about which sex "Lorin" was, I did what any DRN member does when curious about another member. I read "lorins" profile. Hmmm, nothing there. Then I got smart and started reading all the post "Lorin" had ever posted. What I found disturbed me. One post was about Women's chest protecters. The other was about a XR200 being a good womans bike. Boy were bswift and I screwed. I then began worrying about what to do. My friend bswift was not going to understand my reservations about taking his friend Lorin. My wife was really not going to understand. My anxiety level continued to increase for the next few days.
I then recieved an email from bswift that started"I have a serious question, is LORIN a women. I thought " (bad word) , you don't know swift". I replied to bswift asking him to please tell me Lorin was a man and that he was just joking. He replied he didn't know. I then replied " I thought you knew this person" Bswifts reply "well their on DRN all the time" Holy crap we are in a mess now. Bswift and I then started talking about our wives reactions. We had said nothing about this too them for weeks, just that the two of us and a guy from OKC were oing to go to Illinios for a few days to ride. Both the women were irrate. Divorces for sure if we took a women to Illinios. Bswifts wife emailed me. Telling me she didn't know how my wife felt and that she hated to be the stick in the mud, but this wasn't going to work. I replied that she must have talked to my wife because that was exactly her reaction.
We than trying to figure out how to, if Lorin was female , to get out of it and secondly how to find out. Eventually after many more days in anguish and being treated very cold at home(I mean real cold) we all four got together for a ride. Bswift's wife and mine spent the better part of the day chewing our tails for even considering going on a trip with a woman. What kinda slut was this that would load up with two strange men and travel half way across country. Eventually the dilema was solved when bswifts wife called the work number they found for Lorin and got Lorin voice mail. Lorin was either a man or the deepest voiced lady there was.
In the end, all three of us men made our way to Illinios together, camping next to another Oklahoman we had already met, mx547. tx246 had came up with him, sawblade had to back out. The five charter members, of the first DRN Chapter, met and had the time of our lives.
Any one that has been around us know that we LOVE to have fun. Thats what it's all about. We also hold food and giving each other a hard time high on the list too. We have added OKKXER and Craig_enid to our group as well as MikeOK. Many stories abound about bswift's crashes, mx547's constant flat's, Lorin's cold (sniffle, sniffle, and yes my loafer incident. but the greatest Heartland Spode story is the LORIN story.
As bswift and I were getting ready for DW01 I get an email from bswift asking if we had room in the truck/camper for one more, he'd been emailed by a DRNer about riding up with us. bswift said that ""Lorin" had asked for a ride. I replied with the usual Heartland Spode answer of the more the merrier. A couple of weeks went by and we began getting things in order, making arrangements etc. I emailed them both with the ssome details. I had never met "Lorin". I told them both that I would sleep in front of the camper and they could sleep in the backroom. After thinking about it I thought "lorin" might be a lady. Bswift had never said. I thought it would be best to send another email back to them telling them that I'd sleep in the back with bswift and "lorin" could have the front by themself.
Bswift then replied back asking "what do you mean". I then got concerned that I'd made a fool of myself and that "lorin"might be a man. Being concerned about which sex "Lorin" was, I did what any DRN member does when curious about another member. I read "lorins" profile. Hmmm, nothing there. Then I got smart and started reading all the post "Lorin" had ever posted. What I found disturbed me. One post was about Women's chest protecters. The other was about a XR200 being a good womans bike. Boy were bswift and I screwed. I then began worrying about what to do. My friend bswift was not going to understand my reservations about taking his friend Lorin. My wife was really not going to understand. My anxiety level continued to increase for the next few days.
I then recieved an email from bswift that started"I have a serious question, is LORIN a women. I thought " (bad word) , you don't know swift". I replied to bswift asking him to please tell me Lorin was a man and that he was just joking. He replied he didn't know. I then replied " I thought you knew this person" Bswifts reply "well their on DRN all the time" Holy crap we are in a mess now. Bswift and I then started talking about our wives reactions. We had said nothing about this too them for weeks, just that the two of us and a guy from OKC were oing to go to Illinios for a few days to ride. Both the women were irrate. Divorces for sure if we took a women to Illinios. Bswifts wife emailed me. Telling me she didn't know how my wife felt and that she hated to be the stick in the mud, but this wasn't going to work. I replied that she must have talked to my wife because that was exactly her reaction.
We than trying to figure out how to, if Lorin was female , to get out of it and secondly how to find out. Eventually after many more days in anguish and being treated very cold at home(I mean real cold) we all four got together for a ride. Bswift's wife and mine spent the better part of the day chewing our tails for even considering going on a trip with a woman. What kinda slut was this that would load up with two strange men and travel half way across country. Eventually the dilema was solved when bswifts wife called the work number they found for Lorin and got Lorin voice mail. Lorin was either a man or the deepest voiced lady there was.
In the end, all three of us men made our way to Illinios together, camping next to another Oklahoman we had already met, mx547. tx246 had came up with him, sawblade had to back out. The five charter members, of the first DRN Chapter, met and had the time of our lives.
Any one that has been around us know that we LOVE to have fun. Thats what it's all about. We also hold food and giving each other a hard time high on the list too. We have added OKKXER and Craig_enid to our group as well as MikeOK. Many stories abound about bswift's crashes, mx547's constant flat's, Lorin's cold (sniffle, sniffle, and yes my loafer incident. but the greatest Heartland Spode story is the LORIN story.
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