| Richard Buckners Nose | |
I thought of this story today as I read something about Richard online and figured a story isn’t a story until it’s told.
I am a fan of Richard Buckners music but I hadn’t heard of him before I ran into him one night at the Economy Shoe Shop which is a bar I used to work at.
You see he was in town a few years ago playing a few mid winter shows and he would come into the Shoe Shop and hang out by himself. He would sit and order a beer and write in this miniature song book he carried around with him. It always looked funny to me because he is a really tall guy writing in this teeny tiny book.
It was a particularly slow night in the bar, due to the winter weather and the only people that come out when it’s slow and snowy our are either traveling or bonkers. There was this cabbie who we all knew to be a little bit nuts so much so that we’d all groan whenever we saw him walk through the doors and keep our fingers crossed that he wouldn’t sit at the bar and talk to us.
Anyhow, the cabbie talking loudly about how to win in a fight and how he had the best moves and he started scanning the room for someone to show his moves too. Well there was only crazy cabbie and Richard Buckner in the room so the choice was obvious.
Cabbie to Buckner: “Hey bud, I know this may seem strange but I was wondering if I could show off my fight moves on you? Don’t worry though, I’m not going to hurt you bud, I got no reason to want to hurt you but.”
Buckner says: “Yeah sure, why not”.
So Richard stands up and he’s towering over this guy looking down at him and the crazy cabbie starts showing off some of his “moves”. There was an arm hold and a choke hold and a hair pull and a take out the knee move and then there was THE MOVE.
Cabbie says: “What is the one part of the human body where if you bite your opponent cannot bite you back?”
Before anyone can answer he grabbes Richard Buckner by the back of the head and puts his whole nose into his mouth and bites down ever so gently with his front teeth. As if this wasn’t enough, while his mouth was still full of Richard Buckners nose he started to talk to all of us, his beedy little eyes darting back and forth.
Imagine the sound of a drunk cabbie with his mouth full
Cabbie: “See, he can’t do anything about it, I’ve got him paralyzed and there ain’t nothing he can do about it.”
Richard Buckner is as calm as a monk in meditation nods his head in agreement.
I had to ring the bell and boot the cabbie out after that. I had strict rules on slow snowy nights about what was going to far and biting the nose of a customer was definitely too far.
I went out the next day and picked up Richard Buckners disc and have been a fan ever since.
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