I don't know why you're here, but I'm currently listening to Jimmy Buffet songs in looking for connections between his music and a dating simulator character. This has got to be both the lowest and highest point of my life.
In 1979 my wife our sons and I were camping in Wales. After we put the boys to bed we had a transistor radio that was our only entertainment. Sitting in our tent with cold rainy weather outside sipping Jack Daniels we managed to find a radio station across the Irish Channel in Ireland. They played this song and afterwards the DJ was talking about the song and the lyrics and asked if anyone in the audience could explain what a “flip-flop” was and how could a pop-top blow a flip-flop?
My wife and I laughed until we cried. The DJ played a few more song and ask that question several time and never did he get an explanation. This was decades before cell phones so we couldn’t call him and explain. I’ve often wondered if we were the only people in his audience that night that knew the answer.
To this day whenever I hear the song I am instantly transported in time and space to a muddy camp site in Northern Wales. These are how memories are made.
My great aunt knew Jimmy before he was famous. The true story of the lost shaker of salt goes as follows: Ol’ Jimmy was a broke beach bum running down the coast selling coke and on the run from the cops. A girl he was seeing got jealous and ratted him out. Jimmy was sitting in a diner hung over from the night before when police flew into the parking lot. He had to think quick. He grabbed the salt shaker dumped it in his drink and filled up the shaker with his coke! Cops searched him but couldn’t arrest him. He went by later that day to find his treasure. The waitress there had refilled all the shakers. Poor Jimmy never did find that legendary “lost shaker of salt”.
For the longest time when I was hearing this song on the radio and the lyrics went "stepped on a pop top", I always thought he was saying "stepped on a pop tart"
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Waterpark radios every 5 minutes:
I honestly find this to be one of the most feel-good songs of all time, haha.
the safe word is jimmy buffett :)