The Swamp

P.D.X. wrote:Born in '76, so the standard Reagan shot / Challenger / 84 Olympics stories.

(Always trips me out when I'm reminded AB is younger than me.)

Whyso?

A_B wrote:

P.D.X. wrote:Born in '76, so the standard Reagan shot / Challenger / 84 Olympics stories.

(Always trips me out when I'm reminded AB is younger than me.)

Whyso?

Because you're much more grown-up-ish.

He's the adultier adult?

mister d wrote:This isn't news, per se, but based on a conversation with my mom last weekend, I'm pretty sure my first very clear memory is dealing with intense confusion at 4 or 5 when I was staying over with my paternal grandmother and when she ran out of milk in the morning, she poured OJ on her cereal like it was nothing.

Years ago, I worked with a cranky old dude who told me he always put OJ on his cereal. He said that milk was carcinogenic. Seriously. He was full of offbeat ideas that he was only too happy to share with us. You'd think he was joking, but he never joked - his remarks were always serious. The funniest was his remark when I got a cat.

old dude in my office wrote:You got a pet? How stupid are you? That's even dumber than having a kid. At least a kid will eventually leave!

He's not wrong.

When I first met her in college, my wife suffered from lactose intolerance and would regularly put a little fruit punch on her cereal (usually Lucky Charms) because she couldn't drink milk but also couldn't stand to eat dry cereal.

P.D.X. wrote:Born in '76,

(Always trips me out when I'm reminded AB is younger than me.)

Ha! I had the same thought.

Jesus christ! Get off my lawn!

Shouldn't you be at supper?

The Sybian wrote:

P.D.X. wrote:Born in '76,

(Always trips me out when I'm reminded AB is younger than me.)

Ha! I had the same thought.

You guys must be forgetting to convert AB's age to Kentucky years.

Born in '70...and grew up in Connecticut.

Typical stock answers: Miracle on Ice, John Lennon being assassinated..But the one thing that drew me to the writing of Stephen King? The one thing that made me realize there was something larger at play, that to my then 10+ year old mind rendered us essentially inconsequential? That had me in some kind 'what the hell is it all for anyway' state of mind?

Gypsy Moth invasion of 1981, which essentially defoliated the entire northeastern United States. I think that was the first news story that affected my outlook on life. Well, that compounded with the '81 MLB players' strike made me lash out WHY GOD WHY!

EnochRoot wrote: Gypsy Moth invasion of 1981, which essentially defoliated the entire northeastern United States. I think that was the first news story that affected my outlook on life. Well, that compounded with the '81 MLB players' strike made me lash out WHY GOD WHY!

Forgot about gypsy moth caterpillars. Those fuckers were everywhere during my early childhood. Especially in my friend's crab apple tree, which was the ultimate climbing tree, with perfect seating at multiple levels. Making it to the next level was a right of passage for the age groups in the neighborhood. I was crushed when I took my kids across the street from my parents and saw the tree was gone. It became diseased or something.

We used to love stepping on them, as the guts shot out both ends. Wow, that brought back some vivid, long forgotten memories.

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