What made you smile today?

noo shoooooes

http://www.soletrader.co.uk/public/pictures/products/standard/FAYRESLU.jpg

I've been looking at them, and trying them on, for about 6 months. The sale I'd been waiting for finally started, and they had 3 pairs left - 1 in my size .... phewwwieeeeeeeeee

(why is the colour called sludge?)

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(memories, Jane...)

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That's a terrible thing to call such pretty shoes, bethie!

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CalamityJane wrote:

the boys standing in one corner talking and the girls in another corner giggling and eyeing the boys in great anticipation -
but nothing ever happened. The boys were too shy to ask us for a dance, and in the end we danced with the other girls.

As I entered Jane's school to pick her up, there they were: boys
on one side of the room, and the girls giggling on the other side.

Some things never change.

Ah, yes, I remember it well from nearly a half century ago. But as I recall, we were not 12, but more like 14 or 15. The girls over in their corner seeming to have a good time. The boys somewhat morosely in their corner, with, as often as not, coats and ties on. Do yall remember coats and ties on teenage boys?
I was all of 5'4" then. I sprouted to 6'1" a couple of years later. Shy.

So the boys stood over there in the corner, trying to look disinterested at the girls in the other corner trying to look equally disinterested.
Amusingly, we would eventually toss out Gene A. to break the ice. He became the QB on the high school football team that started a 50 game winning streak, went on to QB at UVA, and served as a helicopter pilot in VN. But when he was 14, crossing that floor to ask a girl to dance: he was a brave, a very brave lad.

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I remember every minute of that, Johnboy.

I remember the valentine I got in fourth grade that threw me for a loop. Looking back, it was from a very hunk smart fellow, but I was just confused.
Satin heart...

I think our dances were in 7th and 8th grades, but don't trust me on that.

In seventh, Packy G asked me (I think, weird how memory goes.)

that went ok, or at least I have no horrid memories.

We had an actual date later, which was horrible, as neither of us could talk. I had a set of questions I worked out to ask him, which he answered in monosyllables before we got to the bus stop. We saw the movie, Taza, Son of Cochise, and took the bus home, and I said something like "I had a wonderful time."

I could deconstruct all that now, all these decades later, but I'd rather leave it in memory as it was, horrible for both of us.

Only those of us this old, I think, can imagine our perplexity.

And then there was eighth grade..

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Oh, wait, I'm diverting a thread.

So it goes.. (but, I'll stop)

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No, No, Osso. The thread is perfect for this kind of memories as far as I am concerned.

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Yes, and you both made me smile, osso and john Very Happy

It seems those type of memories never go out of style - in a decade or so,
my daughter will experience the same thing with her kid(s). Aahh those
awkward years....

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Ok, the hunk in 4th, or was it 5th, grade was a cousin of the later Packy, not a hunk. I remember liking Packy not a Hunk, but not, now, why, something about his personality (when not on a official date with me).

There was also some classism stuff going on, as for that few years my family was relatively well off (don't get me started on the rest of my life, or even my teens). That in itself may have silenced Packy.

Little late to ask now, a half century later.

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Is this all about shoes...... Shocked

(cuz that would make me smile)

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I have noticed, Rockhead, but have never commented on it, that you seem to have a "thing" about shoes.

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These reminiscings have brought to me
my first heartfelt smile of the day.
Thank you three.

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We actually recieved a letter from the IRS today that told us to disregard this notice because we have finally filed our 2006 return. They told me that I had not filed a return in time, was granted one automatic extension and two others for cause. They told me that I was ill and under a doctors care and they considered this a valid circumstance. Then they stated that I may disregard this notice.

DO I want fries with that?

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Back then we wore Keds... at least in the summer.

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Rainkeeper, did I ever welcome you to a2k? If not, beg pardon.

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Please please, farmer, do not mention the IRS to me. Scurries, lines up files.. fries.... flies....

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Farmer, also, please don't mention me to the IRS...

RH

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Teaching made me smile today. Surprising but true!

I was in the middle of what I'd call an enthusiastic kafoofle (on the part of the students, of course!) when, out of the blue, this young woman blurted out (in an oddly sincere & enthusiastic manner): "Ms, you're so cute! (cu-u-u-ute!) Surprised

Cute? While negotiating a huge class of super-lively adolescents? Oh come on now! Laughing

But for some reason she obviously felt a sort of fondness (or something) for me at that moment & expressed it. So I took it in good grace & smiled back. Her friendship group smiled back at me. It was a nice moment. I wonder what that was all about? Very Happy

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I found out my antilock brakes work quite well on sheet ice. They didn't stop me at all, but at least I kept going straight! Very Happy

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msolga wrote:

Teaching made me smile today. Surprising but true!

I was in the middle of what I'd call an enthusiastic kafoofle (on the part of the students, of course!) when, out of the blue, this young woman blurted out (in an oddly sincere & enthusiastic manner): "Ms, you're so cute! (cu-u-u-ute!)

Cute? While negotiating a huge class of super-lively adolescents? Oh come on now!

But for some reason she obviously felt a sort of fondness (or something) for me at that moment & expressed it. So I took it in good grace & smiled back. Her friendship group smiled back at me. It was a nice moment. I wonder what that was all about?

You were wearing those red shoes, weren't you??? Razz

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