cool things from the family, pt. 1
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lise asked me this afternoon at lunch what the coolest thing my mom ever did for me when i was younger.
it surely wasn’t the coolest thing of all time, but the very first thing that popped into my mind was this:
when i was growing up and going to school K-4th grade, we lived under the 1 mile mark from school. this meant that we walked to school most days. not a big deal. i remember getting rides when weather was crummy and getting picked up, etc. but i remember walking to and from more often than not.
the one day that stands out took place back in 3rd grade – 1977. i remember leaving school and being surprised to see my mom’s car out front! she told me that she had a surprise and we had to get going… i smelled popcorn in the car and this was definitely strange.
we arrived at kenwood theater and mom bought tickets to see Oh, God! with george burns and john denver. she hid the paper bags of popcorn in her coat and in we went! i remember a couple of funny scenes from the movie but what i remember most was mom surprising me by picking me up from school and taking me to a movie in the middle of the day. it was exciting and fun – a real adventure and so out of the ordinary that it’s stuck with me ever since.
my mom is cool, what can i say?
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September 22nd, 2008 12:04 am
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September 1st, 2008 9:28 pm
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My mom never took me to a movie, or any place else, for that matter. That _IS_ cool! But on to other topics.
“[O]ne day that stands out took place back in 3rd grade – 1977.”
Statements like that leave me feeling schizophrenic. I feel quite young today–ageless, to be accurate. In fact, I feel physically younger today than when we first met at Gally 16+ years ago. Yet in 1977 I could be found in the north Arctic Ocean, operating a nuclear reactor on a ballistic missile submarine. (It was a *very* Cold War.)
L&K,
Moldy-Wan ;-)