The things you never forget

[carrie's younger brother]

Great Thread, Grandpa!
8. The smell of your favorite food as a child. A roast beef in the oven on Sundays.

THAT was going to be my EXACT (down to the day) answer, until I thought of another that was a just a bit more of a vivid memory!!!

 

[GNTLGNT]

...alright, I 'll take a stab at this for real instead of being silly(yeah, mark THAT down)...

1. Where you were when Pearl Harbor was announced.....20 years away from the dip in the amniotic pool...

2. Where you were when Kennedy's shooting was announced (I am old enough for that)....I imagine I was just starting on finger foods and potty training...

3. Where you were when you heard about the Challenger....having lunch at the broadcast facility with the crew...

4. Where you were when you heard about the 9/11 attacks....just leaving the house to write and produce some commercials...

5. Your number in the draft lottery....I registered when I turned 18, but was still a pup during the 'Nam...

6. Your first real kiss....with my first girlfriend, Sharon

7. Your first .... I'm gonna pass on that one....ummm, see girlfriend above...

7. Your first love...again, Sharon

8. The smell of your favorite food as a child....anything my dad popped in the pressure cooker on Sundays...

 

[Grandpa]

When I saw the roast beef comment, my nostrils flared. Yes, remember it well.

And the parents trying to sneak some late-night popcorn after I'd gone to bed. Never worked. The smell woke me up every time.

 

[ghost19]

1. Pearl Harbor-I wasn't born yet

2. Where you were when Kennedy's shooting was announced (I am old enough for that).
Still 9 years from being born.

3. Where you were when you heard about the Challenger.
Watching the take off in our science teacher's class. He knew something was wrong right off the bat, took the rest of us while to realize what had happened.

4. Where you were when you heard about the 9/11 attacks.
Had just got home from an overnight shift at work about an hour before. Was called at about 10am by my supervisor and ordered back to work. Showered, got dressed, went back to work. It was not a good day at our department.

5. Your number in the draft lottery.
Wasn't born yet.

6. Your first real kiss.
1992 November 18th. In a Radio Shack parking lot, with a co-worker. Sparks had been brewing for a about a year between us. I offered her a ride home after work one night, around midnight. I did a lot of things to try and show her I was interested over that year, but I suck at talking to girls in that way, no confidence. We were talking and laughing as we were driving along. She asked me to pull into the Radio Shack parking lot. Why that parking lot, I have no idea. I did as she asked. As soon as I put my truck in park, she slid across the seat and kissed me in a way I have judged all kisses since. The only thing I remember her saying was "I've wanted to do that for a long time but you obviously can't take a hint." I was stunned, but I was so thrilled. This girl was completely out of my league. The next half hour was.....pleasant. She was 5 years older than me and not as....inexperienced as I was. I've always remembered the day and date. Several "firsts" that night.....

7. Your first .... I'm gonna pass on that one.
Same girl as above, same night...lol

7. Your first love.
Tough one. I would say the above mentioned girl, but I'm not sure I knew what love was at that age. My wife was definitely the first girl that I couldn't figure out why the hell I couldn't seem to tie my shoes right unless she was around. After a couple of days of considering this, I bought a ring and asked her to marry me. I'm not very bright but I knew she was the one.

8. The smell of your favorite food as a child.
My great-grandfather frying up homemade bacon and eggs in his kitchen early in the morning as he told me stories about his youth.

 

[skimom2]

When I saw the roast beef comment, my nostrils flared. Yes, remember it well.

And the parents trying to sneak some late-night popcorn after I'd gone to bed. Never worked. The smell woke me up every time.

Brings up a vivid memory from when our 2 oldest were 4 and 2. BH and I took the popcorn popper in the basement to make our snack, & when I came upstairs to get butter Mr. 4 and Ms. 2 were standing hand in hand in the kitchen with matching glares. "You're having popcorn without us?" Mr. 4 accused while his sister shook her head disapprovingly. I felt about 3" tall.

 

[blunthead]

Brings up a vivid memory from when our 2 oldest were 4 and 2. BH and I took the popcorn popper in the basement to make our snack, & when I came upstairs to get butter Mr. 4 and Ms. 2 were standing hand in hand in the kitchen with matching glares. "You're having popcorn without us?" Mr. 4 accused while his sister shook her head disapprovingly. I felt about 3" tall.

Huh. Well, so much for skimom. How could you, you naughty mom?! Tsk.

 

[GNTLGNT]

1. Pearl Harbor-I wasn't born yet

2. Where you were when Kennedy's shooting was announced (I am old enough for that).
Still 9 years from being born.

3. Where you were when you heard about the Challenger.
Watching the take off in our science teacher's class. He knew something was wrong right off the bat, took the rest of us while to realize what had happened.

4. Where you were when you heard about the 9/11 attacks.
Had just got home from an overnight shift at work about an hour before. Was called at about 10am by my supervisor and ordered back to work. Showered, got dressed, went back to work. It was not a good day at our department.

5. Your number in the draft lottery.
Wasn't born yet.

6. Your first real kiss.
1992 November 18th. In a Radio Shack parking lot, with a co-worker. Sparks had been brewing for a about a year between us. I offered her a ride home after work one night, around midnight. I did a lot of things to try and show her I was interested over that year, but I suck at talking to girls in that way, no confidence. We were talking and laughing as we were driving along. She asked me to pull into the Radio Shack parking lot. Why that parking lot, I have no idea. I did as she asked. As soon as I put my truck in park, she slid across the seat and kissed me in a way I have judged all kisses since. The only thing I remember her saying was "I've wanted to do that for a long time but you obviously can't take a hint." I was stunned, but I was so thrilled. This girl was completely out of my league. The next half hour was.....pleasant. She was 5 years older than me and not as....inexperienced as I was. I've always remembered the day and date. Several "firsts" that night.....

7. Your first .... I'm gonna pass on that one.
Same girl as above, same night...lol

7. Your first love.
Tough one. I would say the above mentioned girl, but I'm not sure I knew what love was at that age. My wife was definitely the first girl that I couldn't figure out why the hell I couldn't seem to tie my shoes right unless she was around. After a couple of days of considering this, I bought a ring and asked her to marry me. I'm not very bright but I knew she was the one.

8. The smell of your favorite food as a child.
My great-grandfather frying up homemade bacon and eggs in his kitchen early in the morning as he told me stories about his youth.

..shoulda pulled into an Allstate parking lot, coz it sounds like you were definitely in "good hands"....

 

[HollyGolightly]

1. Where you were when Pearl Harbor was announced. Just DNA in some other people’s makeup.

2. Where you were when Kennedy's shooting was announced (I am old enough for that). In grade school, probably as usual in trouble and getting my hands whacked by the nuns with that long wooden pointer with the black rubber tip.

3. Where you were when you heard about the Challenger. If my memory serves me right, working and the news was passed along in the office.

4. Where you were when you heard about the 9/11 attacks. On the phone with my brother trying to figure out what to do with our uncle the retired spy, who called the evening before from TX and was coming into JFK that morning for a visit. My brother and I were joking with each other that something terrible was going to happen because whenever we heard from that uncle something tragic somewhere in the world happened immediately afterward, and usually where he was at. And during our conversation a plane flew into the World Trade Center.

5. Your number in the draft lottery. The draft lottery ended the year I turned 18. I was still required to register, and wanted to go into the Navy (as I was rejected by every college but one that put extensive demands on me if I were to attend, luckily the Community College "had" to take me) but was rejected and told no branch would take me with my spinal injury.

6. Your first real kiss. Honestly don’t recall… must not have been very memorable.

7. Your first .... I'm gonna pass on that one. Well… It involved a 1960 Corvair.

7. Your first love. The 1960 Corvair.

8. The smell of your favorite food as a child. Grandma’s homemade chicken soup on the stove for the family get-togethers on Sundays, after mass.

Trippy about your uncle. Can you keep us posted about his whereabouts?

 

[HollyGolightly]

4. 9/11: I was in bed that morning after a supervivid dream about the building destruction in the movie Independence Day.

When I woke up I remember thinking how I hadn't seen that movie in years. I was sweating out (unprepared as usual) an upcoming Spanish test later that day at Parris Island...working on my first degree. Turned out that military base went on lockdown before the test.

I started breakfast and put on the news right when the first plane hit.

Weirdness all around. I 've had dreams like that - they're so close to what actually happened shortly after I awoke that I didn't have time to tell anyone, but really too close to not be related.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

1. Where you were when Pearl Harbor was announced. Ike was president when I arrived, a Tuesday's child...wish I could remember the 1st time I heard about Pearl Harbor but I can't.

2. Where you were when Kennedy's shooting was announced (I am old enough for that). No recall of this...posted in another thread about some instances that are possible though they could as easily be related to another event.

3. Where you were when you heard about the Challenger. Florida...Gainesville, Florida...and Jim knocked on my door at the rooming house where many of us lived...turned on the television, a big color monster that had no sound. We watched the repeated lift-off and explosion. Guy in the room adjacent to mine was not home, his TV was not on to the channel, so we had to do w/o sound.

4. Where you were when you heard about the 9/11 attacks. In my truck pulling my 14' boat on the way to Rice Lake...Tuesday, right? A work day, but my single employee had injured himself the previous day so I was going fishing...happened to turn on the radio as I drove alongside the lake...heard a snippet...thought it was a War-of-the-Worlds-type of transmission...asked some friends taking their pontoon boat off the lake at the landing about it...they didn't have much in the way of detail. Learned later the story.

5. Your number in the draft lottery. They ended the draft before I arrived at the tender age...although I enlisted in the service before graduation...figured to get it over with. Grew up with Vietnam on the news every night...the protests, the whole shebang. Did receive the benefits of the G.I. Bill, $376 a month while attending school though I could not "double-dip" thanks to Reagan-omics.

6. Your first real kiss. This old dog...a beagle...Barney. I was on the lam & hid out in his doghouse this once and he kissed me...I kissed him back. We visited for a time and then I ran around the house one step ahead of the posse that was looking for me. I was a three-year-old outlaw. Had a couple of big irons on my hip.

7. Your first .... I'm gonna pass on that one. Job? Yeah, work is over-rated...dug copper out of M-26 and set up a table on the roadside and tried to sell it to tourists...one guy stopped but he didn't buy. Picked berries for ten-cents a quart on Old Man Niemela's farm, first paying gig.

7. Your first love. Juicy Fruit.

8. The smell of your favorite food as a child. Plums. They taste good to me.

Number nine... number nine... number nine... What else?
9. When John Lennon was shot...when Reagan was shot...both happened within...months? weeks? In Florida...George Wallace...RFK...Martin Luther King...the riots of the 60s...Woodstock...the moon landing in '69...Watergate...

 

[Grandpa]

7. Your first .... I'm gonna pass on that one. Job? Yeah, work is over-rated..

Yes! Job! That's what I meant!

I was a paperboy about age 10.

9. When John Lennon was shot...when Reagan was shot...both happened within...months? weeks? In Florida...George Wallace...RFK...Martin Luther King...the riots of the 60s...Woodstock...the moon landing in '69...Watergate...

Good additions!

But I don't remember where I was when first hearing of Lennon or Reagan or Wallace or RFK or MLK or the riots or Woodstock or Watergate.

My mom and dad and I were glued to the TV for the moon landing. When the moon walk happened, it was around 2 a.m. or something, and Mom had given up. I had special dispensation to stay up that late. Dad and I saw Neil Armstrong step off and say his words, we continued watching all that for a while, and then we walked outside into the clear night air and gazed at the shining moon and spoke in low tones, engaged in complete wonderment.

 

[mustangclaire]

Where you were when Pearl Harbor was announced. Not thought of yet.

2. Where you were when Kennedy's shooting was announced. .... Not even thought of yet.

3. Where you were when you heard about the Challenger. I was at school.

4. Where you were when you heard about the 9/11 attacks. I was at work, and I am ashamed to say I didn't actually know what the Twin Towers were. A friend had a message come through from her boyfriend and she read out that a plane had gone into one of the twin towers. It wasn't until I finished work for the day, got in the car and turned the radio on that I realised the gravity of unfolding events.

5. Your number in the draft lottery. NA

6. Your first real kiss. At a new years party, and I was dancing with a chap and he kissed me. I was 15 and fireworks went off, I loved it and remembered a thought going round and round my head... "perhaps I'm not gay afterall!!"

7. Your first .... It involved a Ford Escort and the chap I was kissing above's best friend. Together two years.

7. Your first love. My first true love... Not the chap above. Someone else.

8. The smell of your favorite food as a child. My mums own home made spaghetti tuna crisp.

 

[Agincourt Concierge]

1. Where you were when Pearl Harbor was announced.

2. Where you were when Kennedy's shooting was announced (I am old enough for that).

3. Where you were when you heard about the Challenger.

4. Where you were when you heard about the 9/11 attacks.

5. Your number in the draft lottery.

6. Your first real kiss.

7. Your first .... I'm gonna pass on that one.

7. Your first love.

8. The smell of your favorite food as a child.

Number nine... number nine... number nine... What else?

oops I made a post fax paus ...

 

[Agincourt Concierge]

1. (Pearl Harbor) My parents hadn't even met yet ...
2. (Kennedy) I was only 4 months old.
3. (Challenger) Was watching it on TV with people I worked with
4. (9/11) I was at college.... headed back home though ... seeing we lived so close to DC ...
5. No draft for me ...
6. (first kiss) In a treehouse with a boy that could kiss ... oh my ... taught me well ....
7. (first...) ummm.... all I will say is .... college ... first love ... Ford Bronco
8. (first love) Paul Newman ...
9. (fav mom cooking food) Greek Egg Lemon soup and chicken ...

 

[Neesy]

1. Where you were when Pearl Harbor was announced. Ike was president when I arrived, a Tuesday's child...wish I could remember the 1st time I heard about Pearl Harbor but I can't.

2. Where you were when Kennedy's shooting was announced (I am old enough for that). No recall of this...posted in another thread about some instances that are possible though they could as easily be related to another event.

3. Where you were when you heard about the Challenger. Florida...Gainesville, Florida...and Jim knocked on my door at the rooming house where many of us lived...turned on the television, a big color monster that had no sound. We watched the repeated lift-off and explosion. Guy in the room adjacent to mine was not home, his TV was not on to the channel, so we had to do w/o sound.

4. Where you were when you heard about the 9/11 attacks. In my truck pulling my 14' boat on the way to Rice Lake...Tuesday, right? A work day, but my single employee had injured himself the previous day so I was going fishing...happened to turn on the radio as I drove alongside the lake...heard a snippet...thought it was a War-of-the-Worlds-type of transmission...asked some friends taking their pontoon boat off the lake at the landing about it...they didn't have much in the way of detail. Learned later the story.

5. Your number in the draft lottery. They ended the draft before I arrived at the tender age...although I enlisted in the service before graduation...figured to get it over with. Grew up with Vietnam on the news every night...the protests, the whole shebang. Did receive the benefits of the G.I. Bill, $376 a month while attending school though I could not "double-dip" thanks to Reagan-omics.

6. Your first real kiss. This old dog...a beagle...Barney. I was on the lam & hid out in his doghouse this once and he kissed me...I kissed him back. We visited for a time and then I ran around the house one step ahead of the posse that was looking for me. I was a three-year-old outlaw. Had a couple of big irons on my hip.

7. Your first .... I'm gonna pass on that one. Job? Yeah, work is over-rated...dug copper out of M-26 and set up a table on the roadside and tried to sell it to tourists...one guy stopped but he didn't buy. Picked berries for ten-cents a quart on Old Man Niemela's farm, first paying gig.

7. Your first love. Juicy Fruit.

8. The smell of your favorite food as a child. Plums. They taste good to me.

Number nine... number nine... number nine... What else?
9. When John Lennon was shot...when Reagan was shot...both happened within...months? weeks? In Florida...George Wallace...RFK...Martin Luther King...the riots of the 60s...Woodstock...the moon landing in '69...Watergate...

Walter Oobleck

Walter - I LOVE your answer to # 6 - you are so original!

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Walter Oobleck

Walter - I LOVE your answer to # 6 - you are so original!

Yeah...that day is memorable for whatever reason, perhaps because of the dog-house episode...that...or the finale...standing out on the blacktop at the top of 1st Street in Lake Linden...trying to decide what way to duck...when this old lady down in the gully looks up and spots me. She started hollering to beat the band and the posse comes running around the house. Mom lassoed me and that was the end...until I got my red wagon going...we lived on a hill!