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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOK, here's my calendar from 1958. I was 17.
Sunday, June 1.
Sunday school and church with mom and dad.
Dad took us to lunch at the club afterward.
Wednesday, June 4.
Bible study with the guys.
Went for malts after.
Bobby got a new catcher's mitt.
Saturday June 7.
On the way to library helped an old lady across street.
Refused gratuity.
Sunday June 8.
Sunday school and church with mom, dad, and grandma.
Lunch at club after.
Grandma said the blessing.
Monday June 9.
Played 18 holes with the guys at Roddy's dad's club.
Had club sandwiches and fries in the club lounge after.
My dad's club has better fries. Crispier.
Wednesday June 11.
Volunteered at the hospital.
Emptied and cleaned bedpans.
Dr. Redmond said he wished they had more like me.
Croney
(4,656 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)samnsara
(17,604 posts)but I was a waitress. That's how I paid for my school lunch, supplies and clothes.
monmouth4
(9,686 posts)LeftInTX
(25,126 posts)April xxx Sunday afternoon. Tornado. Insulation flies in my yard.
June xxx Graduate High School
Sometime in June:
Start college summer school
Start crappy job at Holiday Inn
Sometime in July:
Quit crappy job at Holiday Inn
Aug xxx: Watch Nixon resign
Sometime after labor day: Start college fall semester
November xxx Turn 18
(I have to look up the actual tornado date online)
John1956PA
(2,654 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,265 posts)even down to the summer job at a local motel. The tornado didn't come until about 10 years after I graduated from college, though.
rsdsharp
(9,137 posts)That's not a tornado. THIS is a tornado.
https://globegazette.com/news/local/photos-charles-city-tornado-may/collection_d2662d60-9939-5bb2-affd-91d3686c9449.html
F5. Charles City, Iowa. May 15, 1968. 4:53 PM.
Some things you don't ever forget. I was 14 at the time.
LeftInTX
(25,126 posts)I couldn't see the tornado. I went outside cuz it looked like a possible storm was approaching from the south. All of sudden parts of shingles and insulation started blowing in our yard. I knew there was a probable tornado, so I watched and waited.
Then it stopped and I went in the house.
rsdsharp
(9,137 posts)Especially if it's right on top of you. I saw the tornado (one of the three that joined up to destroy much of our small town) about 2 blocks from my house, just before it hit a shopping center. Five steel I beams from its roof landed in our back yard, about 15 feet from the house. Our detached garage simply disappeared; only the concrete slab was left. We lost a 40 foot tall spruce, 3 walnut trees, a box elder and an elm. We had a 5 square foot hole in the southwest side of our roof, and a matching hole in the northeast side. We later figured out that a neighbor's chest freezer went through our roof (after their house was literally turned upside down) and continued on a direct line, landing in the rubble of the Catholic church a block-and-a-half away.
And only one house east of us was damaged. The neighbor across the street lost a few shingles. Four blocks to the west, our main street was virtually leveled. God has a sense of humor. The town had voted down urban renewal 6 months before.
He also has a sense of irony. Most of the bars survived with little damage. Most of the churches were destroyed or heavily damaged.
doc03
(35,295 posts)Saint Trof. I sure wouldn't make any posts about what I did at that age. I am not
trying to get on the SCOTUS though.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I call BS.
essme
(1,207 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)I'll work on it.
C_U_L8R
(44,987 posts)What I did on my summer vacation
The first day on my vacation, I woke up
Then I went downtown... to look for a job
Then I hung out in front of the drugstore
The second day on my summer vacation, I woke up
Then I went downtown... to look for a job
Then I hung out in front of the drugstore
The third day on my summer vacation, I woke up...
cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)I don't know if it was in a movie or standup
C_U_L8R
(44,987 posts)Class !! CLASS !!!!!
cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)Boing..thank you
Kingofalldems
(38,422 posts)Jarqui
(10,122 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Croney
(4,656 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Showing he was never at a party with Ford.
Croney
(4,656 posts)we moved around a lot. I was always the new kid. But hey, I guess I persisted. How about you?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)But I did go to an elite liberal arts college.
brush
(53,741 posts)Who does he think is going to buy that crap?
Even repugs won't but they'll act like they do.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)edhopper
(33,479 posts)there is another private activity you left off your calendar.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)had do my calendar in braille
;
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,655 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)I was not an after school sports guy so maybe I didn't need one, but mine was...
school
work
homework
hang with friends
Sleep
church on Sunday sporadically
no one on one dates with girls, group date things.
fishing
hiking
work on cars
no booze, well a couple of times, a few beers.
No grass, or any narcotics.
No making out and scared sh*tless of getting a girl pregnant.
and surprisingly I didn't need a calendar.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)And I was fucking good at it; I was at the top of the heap. That was what I was going to do for a living until I broke my back the next year.
Did not go to parties. Did not talk to other kids outside of school. Did not try to have a girlfriend. I was kind of anti-social actually. Made college difficult for me. Maybe I should have tried to engage in this sort of behavior? Would that have been an improvement? Nope, just the other end of the anti-social spectrum. At least I respected the girls in my school as human beings.
DemoTex
(25,390 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)DKE
Yep. I blame it all on them.
Chipper Chat
(9,672 posts)Sunday: 9am: went to sunday school and church at the First Christian church.
12 noon: at at grandma's with family, aunts n uncles, n cousins and 2 great-grandmothers [Every Sunday] . 2pm: in my bedroom listening to a white Sox doubleheaders called by Bob Elson. Supper at 6 and card games with the family - usually Canasta Or Monopoly. Sometimes Rook. TV was usually snowy but if reception was good we,d watch Ed Sullivan and Kraft Mystery theater??. Liberace was popular too. And What,s My Line
Besides school there was Scout meeting Monday nights and Teen Canteen on Wednesday nights where we could dance with the girls to The Four Freshmen singing Its a Blue World. Friday night basketball games. Saturday morning working at the local greenhouse weeding tomato plants or winters stocking shelves at Fishers Grocery. Saturday afternoons at the Ritz theater. Double westerns plus a serial and cartoon. 14 cents to get in. We could go out with friends Saturday evening but curfew was 10pm. Pretty mundane compared to today but we had a great life.
trof
(54,256 posts)Christian church, grocery store, Ritz theater, TV.
Chipper Chat
(9,672 posts)Family, a house, pastor, wonderful teachers, and a bicycle - great comfort zones
haele
(12,640 posts)And it was to identify school events, when homework and projects were due, and maybe a few of her friend's birthdays. No non-school related things like parties or hanging out days, or even mundane family trips or relatives coming out to visit.
She had a sporadic attempt of a diary that might have three or four actual dated entries over the same amount of years, but for the most part, it was primarily her WBFOS's (Wanna-be Boyfriend of the Semester) name and occasional cartoon doodles written on the various pages in the front of a basically empty composition book.
In high school, I had a desk calendar mom snagged from work every year on the table in my bedroom where I did my homework - to write down when homework was both due and finished, my soccer schedule, and orchestra/concerts I was playing in.
And that was it. No extra-curricular "party" stuff.
Calendars are where you write down your official schedules and social events.
A spontaneous pool party because the 'rents are out for the evening or "hang out at the beach/mall/friend's garage" are not events that go into most calendars. The only time I can think of that something like that might be in a teenager's calendar is if someone - either an adult or the kid him/herself wants to track that sort of event, either for "belated" justification for being out of the house and at a certain location at a certain time, or for unscrupulous (blackmail, stalking) reasons where the kid might want to keep his or her story straight with evidence that could just as easily be a lie.
"See, it's here in my calendar - I wasn't across town at that bar Dad's friend said he thought he saw me at, I was hanging out with my buddies at their band practice at, you know, Jack's mom's place a few blocks away...no, she wasn't there, because she calls our music noise and went out shopping..."
Diaries, now...diaries are where you write down what you did, what you may have wanted to do, and any other deep, dark secrets.
Does Brett-boyo have a diary from that time period he can show, hmmm?
Haele
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trof
(54,256 posts)roamer65
(36,744 posts)essme
(1,207 posts)16 (think straight up low/middle class mid-amerika)
Saturday January something
1st varsity wrestling match (asked to replace a kid that broke some body part). Lost but was proud for doing it.
Lunch at some pizza place. Snowing.
Dad freaked out (pick a topic) most of the evening. Big guy, bad temper.
Monday January something
Since the wrestling debut my school bullies stopped looking at me.
A girl I liked looked at me twice in class which was a first in HS. That was nice. Never went out.
Practiced trumpet for an hour. Starting to decline lost 2nd chair weeks ago. Snowing.
Dad freaked out most of the evening.
Saturday January something
Think I almost won a match. All the varsity wrestlers were 17 or 19 with beards and knives; I was a baby compared to them. Snowing.
Went bowling, played well. Bike got stolen, forgot to chain it up.
Dad freaked out about bike most of the evening. Hours of "why" "how".
Sunday January something
Listened to radio. Watched tv.
Dad freaked out most of the evening.
Monday January something
Skipped school.
Dad freaked out most of the evening.
Decided to bolt.
Wednesday January something
Ran away to other relatives.
Sure dad freaked out that evening. Didn't give a shit.
Skip to 17/18.
Got drunk a lot. Grades sucked. Played other sports badly but goodly enough to get a uniform. Partied with the "losers" (goths, gays, stoners, smart dorky kids)/only ones that accepted me.
Got busted.
Graduated HS.
Got drunk and stoned in college. Watched lots of bad MTV shows, went to classes, worked horrible PT jobs, stoned, all 5 years. Graduated.
Never assaulted anyone or any women. Guess I was lucky? I left out the perpetual violence which often leads to repeat violence by the abused.
Score! Man what I could have done with that "club" experience.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)That would have been June 1991. I helped my uncle build an addition on his house that summer. I used the proceeds to buy a shortwave radio (still have it). Late that summer we went to Disney World. I can't remember anything else, but I likely spent time with my grandparents, spent the night with a friend a time or two. I guess I don't have a calendar 27 years later.