Tuesday 4 What.. Where... How?

What.. Where...How?

Hosted by Annie!

 Hey, it's time for Tuesday 4 and I am so happy to see you back again.    

Let's ask ourselves some questions.

1. What was the worst date you ever went on? That would have to be  when I  did a blind date for a friend .  She  begged me to go   because otherwise  she'd  have no date because her college beau had no wheels. Lynn was in the military and he knew Id  be sociable   .. I was in college after all.  But he knew he could trust me.  Well, 

no problem not trusting me on this date.  The guy was beyond 

  horrible,  tall,  rotund,  ugly glasses,   and  stuck on himself. 

 Of  course,  as he was driver,  I was riding shotgun  as close to

 the door as possible. We went to the drive in of all things. Of course,

 the back seat was getting a bit  fogged over,   and I was  sitting up

 front  wishing my life completely away. I could tell he  was hating

 me, because  his evening wasn't exactly  fun.  But I couldn't stand

 talking to him.,  and the movie was  not my style..  rated r for  

 murder and mayhem.The door handle was  getting all my attention.

  I can't remember   but I think he kicked me to the curb  when we

 got back to the dorm.   I  was just glad it was OVER!

2. How was the nicest date you ever had?Lynn rarely took us out

  for  dinner..  we usually ate at my house  before going out. but 

one evening he did take me out for pizza, then a movie.That was 

 what I called a real date,  not just  cruising up and down William-

son Road, seeing who could  get a wheelie  fastest,  and then stop-

ping my the airport to park for  an hour.  I mean  that was all fun,

  but  having a real date  was  super  nice. I'm not sure but I think 

the movie was On Her Majesty's Secret Service.. Yeah, I'd say a 

Jame Bond date deserved   a pizza dinner!

3. Where did you grow up and how did you like it? Are you far 

away from there now?I have always lived in the same town

 except for the year I lived in Germany while Lynn served in 

 the Army.I grew up  at  the very edge of the postal code.  I

 mean the county line  started at the end of my street. So our   

neighborhood  sprang up  on  farmland  and we bought  our 

house when I was two.   And it was the second house built  in

 that section, so I grew up  watching the other homes  being 

built.  Sometimes,  we kids  played around on the building lots

  in red clay  that  my mom spanked me for bringing home on

 my clothing!   Well,  the spanking was for not minding her the

 first time.  Yeah,  I grew up in the spanking era.   Mom grew

 forsythia  bushes as a huge hedge between our house and the 

neighbors. They are beautiful,  but  mom, also, used  them as 

 my deterrent for  being  bad.  "Carolyn, go pick your switch!" 

 Yeah, I heard that a time or  10. I was a slow learner.  I was 

an only child,  and most of the kids around us were older, so 

I was usually the one  they blamed when we got caught doing

 stuff.   "She did it!"  Oh, well, live and learn. But I loved  those 

years going up. It helped to toughen me up  which I would need

 later  as a teen. I won't go into that.  But  again, I loved  grow-

ing up in the 50's    That was a wonderful decade.  I loved grow-

ing up  in the 60's   whose music  cannot be topped.   So it was

  a grand youth..  I loved  it  scabby legs and all!

4.  What did kids do for fun and dates when you were young?

  We had very little for the youth   ...  I mean Lynn and I  didn't

 have a lot of money to spend on dates  so we usually just cruised 

back and forth from Lendy's  on Williamson Road to Lendy's  

on Franklin.   That was  pretty fun because Lynn's dad had bought

 him a new Plymouth Satellite  with  a  big engine, and  4 in the floor, 

 so  we  rumbled quite a bit  down the  avenue! Then we parked.  But 

 during the parking...  we  parked  out by the airport on a dirt lane. 

  There were other  cars, too,  and  it was wonderful  because it was 

on a ridge  above the runway and watching the planes land was a 

real treat.  We had the radio on  and we sang along on every song.  

Some of our school mates  went  out to a night club for  teens. They 

 were  drinking  and    well, I dont know,  but  I never darkened that

 door. In the summer we had  Lakeside. ... an amusement park a mile

 from my house.  It was quite something; buses from all over the east

 coast came there in the summer.  Lynn and I went there a lot.

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