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Posted on 3/14/17 at 1:40 pm to
Posted by GarmischTiger
Humboldt County
Member since Mar 2007
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Posted on 3/14/17 at 1:40 pm to
Flying to my grandmas solo as a kid and had a layover in Pittsburgh. Was taken to the kid holding area, where there was a TV and some vending machines.

Local news comes on and there's Pat Shingleton - who had left BR for a brief period - doing weather.

That blew my mind, and I excitedly showed my enthusiasm. Few if any of my fellow kid travelers gave a sh*t.
Posted by Bourre
Da Parish
Member since Nov 2012
20367 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 1:43 pm to
Everything. OK, I'll talk! In third grade, I cheated on my history exam. In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max's toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play. In fifth grade, I knocked my sister Edie down the stairs and I blamed it on the dog... when my mom sent me to the summer camp for fat kids and then they served lunch I got nuts and I pigged out and they kicked me out!

But the worst thing I ever done: I mixed up all this fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, t-t-then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa - and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. And I never felt so bad in my entire life!
Posted by sugar71
NOLA
Member since Jun 2012
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Posted on 3/14/17 at 1:43 pm to
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Post a favorite memory you have growing up


Feeding Catfish with my grandparents at their Fish Farm.


The fish would start circling to the top of the water in the evening when we would bang the pans that we used to scoop & toss their food to them.


Reason I want a few acres & pond when( if I'm alive) I retire.
Posted by Carolina_Girl
South Cackalacky
Member since Apr 2012
23973 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 1:45 pm to
It was 1989, my thoughts were short, my hair was long...
Posted by ellunchboxo
Gtown
Member since Feb 2009
18864 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 1:47 pm to
When I was 8 or 9 playing little league I was going through a multiple game hitting slump. My friend Chi-Chi gave me a green M&M and I went downtown.
Posted by SCwTiger
armpit of 'merica
Member since Aug 2014
5867 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 1:50 pm to
Absolute favorite had to be in 1982 - playing football in the Superdome and our little backwoods team beating John Curtis for the state championship. I think the whole town went down to NO, and the football team was treated like kings for a while.
I remember the Curtis coach chastising their band because they weren't getting the team up. Of course, they didn't know how it felt to be losing.
I caught an on-side kick at the end of the first half - should've kept that ball.
Posted by firstandtiger
Sulphur, LA
Member since Aug 2013
234 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 1:56 pm to
My Dad would take the whole family down Hwy 27 from Sulphur to go crabbing along the creole natural trail. We would listen to the movie sound tracks of "My Fair Lady" and "Music Man" on the 8 track. We would fill up the old aluminum trash cans with crabs. Also, I remember during the summer my Dad would drop my brothers and friends off to fish the intercostal under the large draw bridge on Hwy 27. When he would come pick us up as soon as he got on the draw bridge grates and the tires start to make that loud humming noise he would lay on the horn. That was our signal to wrap up the fishing and be ready when he got down the bridge.

Last one, watching LSU make a deep run at Omaha and eating crawfish with my mom. Pretty late in the crawfish season so we would call around to see if we could find any. It was so magical to get some of the last crawfish of the season and cheer on the Tigers!
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 1:57 pm to
Penn St. Football Camp

Really got close to the defensive coaches
Posted by Nativebullet
Natchez, MS
Member since Feb 2011
5143 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 2:10 pm to
The day we all get our school photos and everyone trades pics.
This post was edited on 3/27/17 at 6:25 pm
Posted by Spaceman Spiff
Savannah
Member since Sep 2012
17632 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 2:15 pm to
There were so many great memories with my Dad that it is hard to single out just one. We did so much together when he wasn't working. He was a great Dad growing up. A truly great Dad.

We didn't have a lot of money so we didn't go on a lot of trips and the like. Didn't need to, because that's not where the best memories are made. I think one of my best was the first time he took me on a dove shoot. I can remember getting up extra early on my own and being so excited. I was so proud to see him knock the birds down. I was his retriever and ammo handler, as he called it. Great, great day that will forever be in my memory.

Another great memory involved my Grandfather. Another great man. One time he took me fishing in his little boat back up in this place called Fence Lake - it was one of those little oxbow lakes from the Savannah River. Tons of lily pads. He had this old open faced reel and for some reason loved spoons and the frog rinds...I remember him catching quite a few bass that day. I wasn't big enough, really, so I used an old cane pole. Still have it. Put my line in by one of lily pads and caught a rather good-sized what he called a "government perch." We ended up cooking and eating them over a little fire. Good times.
Posted by jvilletiger25
jacksonville, fl
Member since Jan 2014
17070 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 2:15 pm to
Not paying bills
Posted by LSURoss
SWLAish
Member since Dec 2007
15511 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 2:22 pm to
I remember being a little kid and playing under the house with my brother. We had an elaborate system of roads, tunnels and trails for our tonka trucks and hot wheels cars. I remember the distinct smell and no matter if it was hot or cold outside it always felt cool under the house.

I also remember my dad buying 2 yards of dirt to fix the front yard. My brother and I played in that dirt and over time we fixed the front yard for dad by playing.

Greenwood, LA in the early 80's was a simpler time.
This post was edited on 3/14/17 at 2:24 pm
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Posted on 3/14/17 at 2:23 pm to
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Posted by HornsLife
Dallas, TX
Member since Feb 2014
786 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 2:28 pm to
I remember when I was 7 my mother was managing the local theaters in town and I snuck into the Eddie Murphy movie "Raw". Later that evening I got my mouth washed out with soap for the 1st time after calling our waitress a "scum bag" at dinner. Of all the words I learned that is the one that got me in trouble.
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
23818 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 2:30 pm to
Dad was in Vietnam (second tour). Came home on Christmas leave. I didn't know he was coming. Heard his voice early one a.m. at the house and I thought I was dreaming. It was a great surprise.
Posted by Nado Jenkins83
Land of the Free
Member since Nov 2012
59920 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 2:46 pm to
first time I fapped
Posted by Kafkas father
Member since Aug 2016
1124 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 3:04 pm to
The time my family was on vacation in North Carolina and a beat up 1951 Chevy truck passed by. I was 14 and my Dad said, "How would you like to buy that and fix it up".

I said that would be cool! We chased the guy down and bought that truck for $400.00, then towed it all the way back home to south Florida.

We spent the next year and a half fixing that truck up, and it was my first car. Straight six with three on the column. We sold that truck for 1800.00, but I got about a million in great times working on that with my dad.

Posted by DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Member since May 2011
19431 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 3:04 pm to
Mines from 'Nam also. I mean Uncle Sam didn't think we were kids, but let me tell you. We were kids. Anyway my favorite memory there was from a hot tropical morning. It felt like the sun never went down the night before it was so hot. Anyway as we come up over a hilltop in the rice region, the morning sun on our backs, a perfect little village lay out before us. There was a school house, a little market area, and a couple homes. Mostly women and children in this little village in the middle of nowhere in Vietnam. It really drove home how disconnected from reality you can get in this world. Anywho, sine of the kids were playing in the yard tried to come running to us. They always tried that stuff, asking for candy and junk from us. Well right before the air strike arrived it was a perfect memory of 'nam. My co kind of tarnished it though because he only credited us with 1 kill because he said the 50 or so women and children didn't count. I mean a kill is a kill right.
Posted by Captain Lafitte
Barataria Bay
Member since Nov 2012
6384 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 3:05 pm to
Seems a few happen in the years I was 11-13.

I really miss going to my maternal grandma's for a dinner or get-together and most of my uncles and great-uncles would congregate at the shed out back and tell some old stories and drink some homemade muscadine wine.

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My dad showing up at school and popping his head in at the back door telling my teacher that he's checking out my brother and I early so we can go hunting with him. Then seeing the sad faces on my classmates saying, "You're lucky. I wish my dad would do that."
Posted by MottLaneKid
Gonzales
Member since Apr 2012
4543 posts
Posted on 3/14/17 at 3:32 pm to
skipping a day of school to go fishing Lake Verret with my dad. I think I was 12 or 13 years old.
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