Wednesday, March 7, 2012

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN?

FIRST RAW FISH?  1971
FIRST RAW CALAMARI?  1962
Your first word in your second language? 1940, or so I was told.  My first word did not happen until 1939 [14 months old, I was!]
Your first black eye? 1941  [Not in a fight. An accident.]
Your first brush with death by gunshot?  1941 [At home]
First day of school?   1942
Lines for nylon stockings you were in?  1944
First chicken you plucked?   1945
First chicken you killed?   1946
Your first dog?  1949
Your only dog?  1949
Your first cat?   1995
Your only cat?   1995
Your first air-raid blackout?  1941
Your first snow experience?  1942
You first met your new neighbor after moving? 1942
Your first hurricane?   1944
Your first earthquake?  1945
End of WW-2 in Europe?  May, 1945
End of WW-2 in Japan?    Late 1945
Your first Christmas tree decoration? 1946
Your first ironing board project?  1948  [Handkerchiefs]
Your first boiling an egg experience?  1946
Your first game on an "organized" team? 1949
Your first crush?  1950 [I even remember her name]
Your first date?  1952  [I remember her name too]
Your first fist fight?  1944
Your last fist fight?  1951
Your first drink?  1950  [It's a short story]
Your first baby sitter? 1942 [I remember her name]
Your first "personal" radio?  1949
Your first card game?  1942  [War "Battaille" with my Maternal Grandmother]
Your first board game? 1943 [Checkers with my Maternal Grandfather -- Nobody could beat him, nobody]
Your first driver's licence? 1963
Your first job?  1950  [Digging a ditch for Ted's Auto Body Shop -- $0.25 per hour]
Your first professional sporting event?  1946  [Boston Red Sox vs. St. Louis Browns, doubleheader, split]
Your first car?  1975
Your first trip to a foreign country?  1955 [Mexico]
Your first airplane ride?  1955  [DC 6 -- NY - San Diego -- 2 stops, Chicago and LA -- 14 hours]
First auto accident?  1967
First fish caught on a hook?  1944
First Pow-wow? 1955
Received American Indian Name, Narragansett?  1956 [Great Walrus]
Coldest temperature in my life?  -22 F
First time to see Aurora Borealis?  1951
First time to see an airplane without a propeller?  1948
Your first US passport?  1961
Your first time to turn 75 years old?  Yesterday!









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