"When I was a kid, I played _____________ in the Christmas pageant"

[PufPuf23]

28. I was a spaceman (this was Christmas 1959, 1st grade)

Everyone was in the pageant and each grade had its own portion of the pageant.

I had a helmet made of an ice cream container with pipe cleaner antennae.

We were arranged in rows on small bleachers along the walls of the general purpose room while we watched and waited our turn on stage with parents and others in the central audience area (this was the same room where we were taken to watch TV when Kennedy was shot while we waited for parents to take us home early several years later).

I was in a rank of little boy extras that were matched with little girls in island girl costumes ala South Pacific for the ending production number.

While in the bleachers my antennae got entangled with an island girls costume (I even remember her name Cynthia *****).