What We Don't Know

[MsBHaven]

I'm like Readtotry - - it's Labor Day, but I don't feel like 'laboring' with housework. So, I came up with a new topic. Although most of us have never met, we know a lot about each other. How about telling us something we don't know about you?

Here's mine:

I've gone sky diving twice (OK, so what if it was 25 years ago).

Now it's your turn.

[kelpie]

I was born in San Antonio TX,moved away from there as a baby but I think I'm meant to be a Texan.

[avalen]

as a 12 year old, I pulled a drowning toddler from an apt pool and took
her to her mother who had no idea she was out by the pool. The little
girl was sitting on the lounge chair and scooted real close to the edge
of the deep end where the lounge chair flipped and pushed her to the
bottom of the pool, I dove in, swam to the bottom grabbed her out
from underneath the lounger and brought her to the surface. She
choked and cried so all was ok, and when I took her home crying, mom
said thank you but I know mom had no idea what really transpired. It
made me feel good and my friends knew what I did.

[Cedar518]

Hmmmm..... I remember V-J day! I was very young, about 3 1/2,...but I remember the phone rang and then my mother started laughing and crying and then she yelled to my father that the war was over. i was looking out the screened door and the sun was low in the sky late in the afternoon. I asked my mother "Is Dorothy's daddy coming home....?"

[rvgrammy1953]

I sang "semi-pro" with an "oldies/CW" band in my early 20s....in the Baltimore area while I was stationed at Ft. Meade.....(circa 1974-75)

Last time I sang with a band was at the American Legion in Budingen, Germany.....1985.....bunch of us got together and provided the music for a C/W nite...

Now, just sing to my grand-daughter....19 mos....so she doesn't care that Grammy a little rusty....

Lori

[asirimarco]

from birth to 16 yrs old lived all over the US - father followed big construction jobs. went to 13 diferent shcools (see I never learned to spell) in as many different towns by the time I was in 10th grade. have been in the motorhome while my husband drove it to Alaska, just the two of us and to Argentina from California with 5 kids.
I have always wanted to try sky diving but am afraid my heart would stop now.
Have 7 tattoos - got the first one at 55 - mid life crisis time.
none of this comapres to saving a life-- I have thought about taking a few through the years.

[Bethers]

I was a hippie - ran away from home when in high school with my best friend - came back a week later. It was the late 60's - we went to the Old Town area of Chicago, where we stayed in an apartment kept there for a blues band when they were in town (they weren't). We left home because of problems both of us were having within our respective families, most of which really did get solved because of the extreme we took. We didn't get hurt, had no problems but knew we needed to finish school, etc. Sometimes today I wonder what would have happened if we had headed for San Francisco the next week like we originally planned - for sure our lives would have been different!

1968 and the Democratic convention in Chicago- I didn't go down there (planned to, but luckily didn't) - however, I did go several times to the trial of the Chicago 8 which became the Chicago 7 which happened at the convention. This was before cameras in the courtroom. Had to sit outside all night to get in the next day - slept on the sidewalks. I made the news even without cameras - wore a very colorful mini skirt and vest - and had short Twiggy-like hair. They used to have courtroom artists (remember those) that drew the procedures - I made the 10 pm news after one of my trips. And even though it meant cutting school each day I went down there, I got an A in a polical science class because I went down - go figure (Oh, one of the days I was there - Dustin Hoffman was also there - and I met him in passing. No memory of what was said, etc - just that we spoke and shook hands.)

About the same time period, I met Eric Clapton and Cream. I was a big r&r fan back then - and met lots and lots of musicians over the years - but that meeting stuck in my head for ever. I was maybe 15 or 16 - sat on the side of the stage where the band would play later that night and talked to him like we were old friends. Ginger Baker (the Cream drummer) was already in bad shape on speed back then, and I remember they carried him to his stool behind the durms and then carried him offstage again.

Nope, I never saved any lives that I know of - hopefully never did anything to cause anyone to lose one, either. But I have lots of other stories I've not admitted to here - lol

[retiredhappy]

You all have had really interesting lives. Until I bought my rig and started traveling I did nothing more interesting than being a single mom, working to support us. We were lucky enough that my mother lived with us and watched over my daughter while I worked. That's why I keep telling everyone I'm going through my 2nd childhood. Got a tattoo on my 65th birthday - a Cherokee butterfly that means "strong woman". Plan on getting another one on my 70th birthday. Hey how about a tattoo party?

[Mtntophoundz]

Something about me....Well I used to be really good at shooting pool. I started going to bars when I was 14 and did that until I had my son in my twenties. Still today I will have someone say..."Hey I have heard of you...You used to be really good at shooting pool." I just say..."I don't know how good I was but I enjoyed it!" I had to drop out of college because I started shooting in the university rec hall (cutting class to do it) and was making more money than my normal job.


This is a cool thread!

[asirimarco]

pictures of the tats?
Wow Beth I'm impressed.
I spent the 60s raising kids -

[Shirlv]

The most memorable event in my life. I sailed the US Virgin Islands in a 40 ft Hunter with an all woman crew. We were all over 40 except the captain who was 30. We would anchor and go ashore in a dinghy. One time when we landed, a 20 something man ask "where are the men"? I seriously said" home with the kids doing the laundry". We laughed for a week.

[MsBHaven]

That was fun. Thanks for sharing.

[snowball]

some of you know that we travel full time and have a fifth wheel
some of you know that I was born and raised in Jackson WY
some of you know that we lived the majority of our married live in Salt Lake City
Some of you know that we have 10 grandchild and 1 more on the way
some of you know that we are work camping in Island Park ID
some of you know that I like to crochet afagans, read, cook, trying to learn how to knitt, used to make porclein dolls and figurines,
but I'll bet that none of you know that I have made all of my married childrens wedding cakes as well as others....
Had to did deep to think of that one.
sheila

[mtngal]

My first post got lost in the ozone, so here goes again. In a previous life, my (ex) husband and I ran our herd of cows and calves in the mountains every summer. The cows wore bells that allowed us to follow their whereabouts through the forest. We stayed in a historic cabin with an outdoor shower. My horse's name was Hap, a big palomino, and with the sweetest disposition. They were marvelous summers.

[MsBHaven]

Just thought of something else...a few years ago I played a dead person for a movie that was being made here in my hometown. It was fun going through make-up and having blood and bruises applied. My role was to just be dead on the ground - pretty simple.