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We were coming home from a football game, when we were caught by a train over on South Parkway. Elvis had chartered a bus because we had all gone to the football game from his house. He got tired of waiting. So he went up to the front of the bus and, when no one was looking, he jumped off the bus. He jumped in a car in front of us that had two guys in it. All of a sudden they made a U-turn and took off. The guards, who were hired to protect him, didn't have any idea what was going on, and nobody knew where he was until we got back to Graceland. He was there laughing and joking about how he had hired these two guys to bring him home.

Another time we were at a football game and Elvis met a hostess at the game that he liked. She was coming on to him, so he asked her if she would like to go to Dallas to see the Lisa Marie under construction. She said she would. We went to the airport and got on his leased airplane and flew to Dallas. We looked over the Lisa Marie and then Elvis decided he didn't want to go back to Graceland. He wanted to take this girl with him, so we flew to Palm Springs, California on a two-motor turbo prop. It took us all night to get to Palm Springs. We spent four or five days in Palm Springs and then came back to Memphis.