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Well, get a reeeaaaally comfy new couch, or maybe one of those heat massaging chairs. You'll feel better.
posted by
TARZANA
on March 8, 2005 at 9:16 AM
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girls?
I've had a bunch of girlfriends.
problem is they had boyfriends.
so i was out of luck
moved around too much to get settled with any --
4th grade had a good friend -- new school opened up and i went there and she stayed behind
nobody in partiuclar in junior high
got slapped by a girl in 8th grade for my gaze wandering
had a good relationship with one in high school then we moved to the country.
oh well.
dated some in Springfield and Kansas City.
nothing at all like your events though.
posted by
Xeno-x
on March 7, 2005 at 3:31 PM
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there are times when you are reluctant to check out people you used to know.
I am.
some I don't want to see again.
I viewed with some trepidation going down to my 40th high school grad class reunion -- but then I mingled and we got acquainted and it wasn't so bad. At that time I lived way out in the country and didn't go out to places like many of them did -- they had their cliques and such -- I wasn't in any. But I acquired a respect for them. Most of them remained around the rural area where they all grew up and because they were from rural Missouri, you could see a genuineness about them -- basically all right people.
met a few of my friends from St. Louis earlier -- they were ok. one became a frequent acquaintance (died a few years back) -- one we visited back and forth for awhile (he was a city cop) then things just fizzled out.
One thing -- at none of the schools I went to, whether County, City or Country, was anybody stuck up or exclusive. these were regular people -- working class families -- maybe the lower eschelons of society in a way -- but -- regular people -- a little rough around the edges and even rought -- many wanted to fight -- I got in a few -- not many -- avoided as many as I could.
remember this one smaller kid who had a chip on his shoulder and especially for me -- got mad at me -- wanted me to fight him -- bulldogged me a few times to try to get me to fight -- then one time while I was lying in the grass, he came up behind me and started punching me in the face -- I had to go to the nurse -- he kept saying "Why didn't you fight?" I kept saying, "Because you're smaller than me."
met his son recently in the course of my job -- asked him about his dad -- he said his dad still had that "little guy, chip-on-the-shoulder attitude". Wish I'd have been able to see him again.
I'm always curious too about how a lot of these people turned out.
what's interesting is that these more or less regular, down to earth kids were sort of easy to deal with -- more physical and less psychological if you know what i mean
less cruel probably.
posted by
Xeno-x
on March 7, 2005 at 3:26 PM
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