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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 09:28 PM
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What afterschool activities did you do as a kid? Me, highland dancing, basketball,
afterschool sports and swimming lessons. I had my bronze medallion by the time I was 16.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 09:40 PM
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1. Hanging out and later, car theft, but eventually I got into playing music in bars....nt
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abq e streeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 11:21 PM
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13. so in other words, you really hit bottom after the, in comparison, respectable car theft phase...
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haele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 11:55 PM
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16. No, he could have become a bought poliitician-
That would have been the bottom of the barrel after car-thief...

Haele
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abq e streeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 12:27 AM
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19. compared to bar musician?; hmm, I'll have to think about that. Tough call.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 02:28 AM
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20. Socially, bar band musicians are the bottom, but we have a lot of fun...
at least so I'm told...I don't remember much about it...;)
Anyway, I'm retired from all of it now.


mark
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 03:10 AM
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21. We actually just sort of borrowed them from car lots...we drove them around
and brought them back...it was before Saturday Night Live started...

:shrug:

mark
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 09:40 PM
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2. None - horseback riding was not an after school activity
And I spent every hour possible on horseback.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 11:38 PM
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14. I should have said extra curricular activities. I swam and highland danced evenings and
weekends.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 09:46 PM
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3. smoked a lot of weed and listened to great music
it was the 70's, man:hippie: :smoke:


actually I had a horse around, a lot of those years too - that probably kept me out of worse trouble
although it also gave me access to some:evilgrin:
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 03:11 AM
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22. And look where you wound up.....
:rofl:


mark
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 09:59 PM
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4. Kenpo
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Inchworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 10:04 PM
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5. Ridge running, trapping, motorcycling
Then came "gardening" and booze.

:smoke:
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 10:16 PM
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6. Homework, piano lessons, and watching Howdy Doody.
There weren't organized after-school activities when I went to school.

I was in Girl Scouts for awhile, but they held their meetings in the evenings.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 10:36 PM
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7. I took piano lessons too but was kicked out of class, by a nun, because I was so bad.
She just tore up my check in front of me.
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 10:44 PM
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8. In junior high, band and football.
In high school, band, swim team, and drama club.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 10:52 PM
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9. Drama, cheerleading, girl scouts, church youth group.
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 11:07 PM
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10. Detentions, a lot of detentions.
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 11:07 PM
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11. Cocaine
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 11:11 PM
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12. none
my dad worked three jobs and my mum did not know how to drive
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 03:14 AM
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23. Sounds like part of a C&W song....did your dog die, too?...nt
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nolabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 11:40 PM
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15. This is gonna sound grim.
Dying mother, and then working in my grandparents' cafe. Boehner's got nothing on me, baby, except more siblings.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 12:11 AM
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18. Wow. You must have been one strong teenager. You would have to be.
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nolabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 01:30 PM
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31. Thanks. Unfortunately it resulted in one of those "marry to get out" marriages
but fortunately, we split up amicably and I eventually created a great life. One goofy side effect is that I kind of get where Boehner's coming from in being emotional about his past. However, unlike him I think it's absolutely necessary to do all we can to help people who might be in that position and not just admire the survivors and throw the others away.

I never would have made a cheerleader, anyway.
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zen_bohemian Donating Member (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 12:02 AM
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17. marching band at ball games, but nothing else other than that
We went home, got a snack, then went outside and played with the neighbor kids til it was dinnertime.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 12:22 PM
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30. Marching Band was a before-school activity when I went (SoCal, late 70's).
Edited on Mon Jan-10-11 12:23 PM by Iggo
EDIT: Oh, yeah! Except for the actual football games which were well after school...duh.
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6000eliot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 07:20 AM
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24. I think we called it "going out to play" back then.
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 08:18 AM
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25. I did highland dancing as well, but on the weekends.
Swam at the "Y" in the evenings....I can't
remember ever doing anything right after
school except fighting with my brothers....
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 11:18 AM
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26. I was a girl scout for a few years ...
... and I had to go to Hebrew school two afternoons a week. I'm not sure which I disliked more.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 11:20 AM
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28. I eventually hated GS! Dropped out in 1960 when I was the only one "for" JFK!
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 11:19 AM
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27. Bicycling, watching TV. Homework pretty much was the rest. Plus marching band.
Edited on Mon Jan-10-11 11:20 AM by WinkyDink
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 12:21 PM
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29. Tennis team. Also, detention. (n/t)
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 01:42 PM
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32. mostly swimming in high school, no other sports
I was much more active in grade and middle school - softball and swimming. There weren't as many sports options for females when I was in school, as there are now.
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-11 07:48 PM
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33. A three hour nap, holding the bed down.
I was exhausted after school and had to take a nap. My thyroid died when I was ten years old and I have taken thyroid ever since. When I was working the same thing happened. Come home at 5 o'clock or six o'clock and crash HARD.

In the evening I had orchestra. And Latin Club and Medical Careers Club. Mostly orchestra.
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