A man has to know his limitations.
03-06-2019, 07:16 PM
#31
03-06-2019, 07:19 PM
#32
Yah, but crap look how old you are. Almost as old as some as the cars you wish you had bought.
03-07-2019, 04:48 AM
#33
03-07-2019, 04:56 AM
#34
Thread Starter
I loved summer nights playing outside in my neighborhood growing up! The good ol' days of knock-knock-knock, "Can Anne (or ?) come out and play?" If I called Anne on the phone her parents would always get mad. She had four older brothers, one just a month older than me and my first crush when I was about 10 years-old: Bill. Does anyone remember the song?
"Will You Marry Me Bill?/Wedding Bell Blues"
I meet Bill, again, about 10 years ago when I went to a family gathering of Anne's . Bill looked and acted like a fleshy, boring drunk. I got the impression his wife was very unhappy.
Among other things as a kid I loved going to a dirt lot and having a dirt clod fight with Anne's brothers and my brother's friends, roller skating with Anne, playing hide-and-seek in the neighborhood, or in the framing of a new apartment building going up a block away, playing Pickle-in-the-middle or, as teenage years were in full swing, streaking with the same kids.
"Will You Marry Me Bill?/Wedding Bell Blues"
I meet Bill, again, about 10 years ago when I went to a family gathering of Anne's . Bill looked and acted like a fleshy, boring drunk. I got the impression his wife was very unhappy.
Among other things as a kid I loved going to a dirt lot and having a dirt clod fight with Anne's brothers and my brother's friends, roller skating with Anne, playing hide-and-seek in the neighborhood, or in the framing of a new apartment building going up a block away, playing Pickle-in-the-middle or, as teenage years were in full swing, streaking with the same kids.
That brings back about a million memories, Patty. Being a Bill, I was plagued by that song. "Calling" for a friend was a daily ritual in the summer. Some days I'd call on the whole neighborhood. I could easily round up 20+ kids in 20 minutes of "calling" at the front doors. We moved when I was 12 and I had to make all new friends. They didn't call in the new neighborhood, just knocked. That worked fine as well. We all had bikes and rode all day and all night. We went for miles together. I was never a streaker. I was always overweight and suffered from body shame.
03-07-2019, 05:01 AM
#35
Thread Starter
It occurred to me this morning that if the kids in my neighborhood are the people I grew up with, you (and my wife) are all the people I grew old with. 17 years ago when I joined this site I was in my mid 40s. Now I'm in my early 60s. I have friends in the real world, of course, but they come and go, live and die, move away or move on. You are the largest single group of people I know and have regular, almost daily contact with. I guess the internet isn't so bad after all.
03-07-2019, 05:20 AM
#37
This part certainly isn't. Other parts I can do without, and do!! I have what I consider four pretty close friends. Three live in the area. One worked with, then for, me for a number of years and retired before I did. She and I do a lot of things together. The second has lived here for quite a few years after being in CA. We went to high school together. I see her fairly often. All three of us are pretty healthy and active.
The other two some of you know well - Val (valentine) and Angela (grannyrod) - my suthin' sistas. Unfortunately, I am not seeing either one much. Val is in SC and caring for Jim pretty much 24/7. He has Parkinson's Disease and it is exhausting. Her health could be better, too. Angela is local but has been having some issues of her own which I can't discuss. I don't see her as often as I would like but we are in touch. Planning to get together for lunch when the weather warms up. She is still working and not quite ready to retire.
As for The Fifth Dimension, I saw them in concert many years ago. Always liked them.
The other two some of you know well - Val (valentine) and Angela (grannyrod) - my suthin' sistas. Unfortunately, I am not seeing either one much. Val is in SC and caring for Jim pretty much 24/7. He has Parkinson's Disease and it is exhausting. Her health could be better, too. Angela is local but has been having some issues of her own which I can't discuss. I don't see her as often as I would like but we are in touch. Planning to get together for lunch when the weather warms up. She is still working and not quite ready to retire.
As for The Fifth Dimension, I saw them in concert many years ago. Always liked them.
Last edited by MsPerky; 03-07-2019 at 05:27 AM.
03-07-2019, 05:33 AM
#38
It occurred to me this morning that if the kids in my neighborhood are the people I grew up with, you (and my wife) are all the people I grew old with. 17 years ago when I joined this site I was in my mid 40s. Now I'm in my early 60s. I have friends in the real world, of course, but they come and go, live and die, move away or move on. You are the largest single group of people I know and have regular, almost daily contact with. I guess the internet isn't so bad after all.
^10-6-2006.
It was because of how this Vintage group has become friends that I started a Facebook group for ElliptiGO riders in Sept 2011. It's done the same thing, that is, connected us over the internet so that we decided to meet in person and have made friendships.
As for streaking, I was 16 and tan. I'll never forget it. It was super scary to walk into the street naked but it was dark. We'd hide if a car came. A couple of the younger boys rode their bikes and would get up ahead of us and ring the doorbell and yell, "Streakers!" I did it twice with about four or five others. Bill, mentioned above, said I was chicken because I was so tan it looked like I still was wearing my bathing suit. Also, Bill, had to stop running and go home after one block. At the time I was innocent but he had wood, I figured out later. I always wondered if it hurt when he ran and that was why he quit.
Last edited by Kyras; 03-07-2019 at 05:41 AM.
03-07-2019, 05:54 AM
#39
^ I can't believe it woodn't hurt, Patty. 
I went skinnydipping twice - one time snuck into a local pool at night with a group and the other with a boyfriend in a local lake at night. I later bought a house on that lake.
I went skinnydipping twice - one time snuck into a local pool at night with a group and the other with a boyfriend in a local lake at night. I later bought a house on that lake.
03-07-2019, 05:55 AM
#40
It occurred to me this morning that if the kids in my neighborhood are the people I grew up with, you (and my wife) are all the people I grew old with. 17 years ago when I joined this site I was in my mid 40s. Now I'm in my early 60s. I have friends in the real world, of course, but they come and go, live and die, move away or move on. You are the largest single group of people I know and have regular, almost daily contact with. I guess the internet isn't so bad after all.
We need a meet!