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| First High Heels by Amos Sewell |
Hello! It's a new week and another installment of Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4. I debated over the word episode and ended up with installment but I am still not satisfied. Oh well, here is is whatever it is and I do hope you enjoy joining in.Let's talk about firsts in your life.
1. Do you remember your first pair of grown up style shoes, maybe high heels? I do very well! I got a new pair of shoes for Easter my 11th year. I was in the fifth grade and my shoes had squash heels... black patent leather.. I was so proud of them. But I ,also, had to wear a crinoline.. the dress looked geeky without it. So with my new shoes, gloves, new hair band with pearls, and my crinoline we stepped out for lunch at the People's Drug store. after church. Now this particular one was very nice. They had booths that were circular if you needed one with 6 people. I had no problem until I needed catsup from the next booth for my fries! So I gracefully slid out of the booth and the next booth was so large I had to place my knee on the seat to reach over and grab the catsup. As I stretched back to standing position. I didn't realize that my heel had gotten caught up in the hem of my dress.. and what a hem it must of been, for standing on one leg, as I turned to progress back to our booth. I fell down right in the middle of the snack bar area!. AS I went down my crinoline went up right over my head! Whoa! I was drowning in a mass of frills and lace.. what a spectacle I made in Peoples drug store in 1961 on Easter Day!.. I suffered complete humiliation. I mean, I am sure there were kids from my class in that particular store. Nothing I could do but smile and offer a wee laugh along with the crowd!..
How did that go?I never wore my squash heels ever again!
Squash heels of the 60’s were not quite so high, but this is a good example!2. When was your first date and do you recall their name and where you went and what you did?
My first date was with Barry. I thought he was adorable and was thrilled even though he did have an ever so slight over bite.. but that added to his charm! He had gorgeous brown eyes and beautiful dark hair. But we didn't go anywhere on that date. I was 15 and mom and dad planned a cookout and after that Barry and I sat out on the porch and rocked in our glider, listening to music waft through the living room window until he had to go home. We dated all that school year and when summer came we were both too busy with family stuff to keep it up so we just didn't see each other after that... he graduated that summer and started work in the fall!.. I remember he had a blue 1957 Ford. That was pretty exciting. When we did go out we usually went to Lendy's and got a soda!.
3. Do you have any memories of your first job? MY mom was the buyer at GC Murphy's and had a good relationship with the boss, so I got jobs at every school break., Christmas, Easter, and of course summer from the time I turned 16 til I went off to college! It helped to pay for my personal items... like panty hose which took quite a bit. I started out just a walker. going around the departments straightening up the merchandise. I hated women's panties. They were always askew! Or the medicine aisle.. bringing the next bottle forward so each shelf was straight. But, at Christmas I was in the candy, nuts and pop corn corner. That was really busy. I had to weigh out the sticky cut up fruit for fruit cakes. My arms would stick in the inside of the bag as I measured out the fruit. It was a miserable job.. doing that all day long til 9pm.
4. What do you remember about your first home away from Mom and Dad? In the spring 1972 I graduated from college and we married.. After the honeymoon hubs went back to the military and I stayed and had a job to finish out a local school year . That is a whole new story. but I divert. I flew to Germany that summer and we set up housekeeping in a 3 room flat in the top of a chalet type dwelling. We had no hot water.. We had to set a fire with wood in the bottom of our water heater for bathing. Hubs did that after he got home in the evening. I just heated water in a pan on the stove as I needed it during the day! There were many other things outside my wheel house living in a foreign country,,, not knowing the language.... but you learn to make do. Our landlord lived right behind us so the wood and in fact the oil for our furnace were available in their back yard shed. so I regularly made the circuit there to get our supplies. Once it got cold enough to use the furnace which was a stand alone heater by the front door. I would pour the right amount of oil in the slot and turn it on. During winter I kept pots of water on the grill on top of the heater and had warm water to wash my hands etc. We couldn't call and chat with mom and dad.. so I purchased a lot of cassette tapes and would tape long stories about life there to my parents,, where we had gone, sites we had seen. We drove through the countryside every weekend and saw many castles and met wonderful people! Then I sent the tapes home every week. I wish they had not taped over mine to send me messages back. We had no phone.. or tv.. only the radio. We had US Forces radio .. so it was a great option. At night they had radio shows on which were very entertaining and after they went off, we went to bed.... anyway Hubs always had to be on the base well before daylight, and usually didn't get home before dark!
