I have noticed something throughout my life. If I am in a car with a woman, and I ask her which way to go, she NEVER says "left" or "right". I can understand not knowing east or west, north or south, but left or right??? The answer is always a hand pointing in the direction, with a statement something like, "This way"...or "Go that way!" Has anyone else noticed this, or have I somehow only managed to know women who can't say the words left and right?
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Dan, It's not just ladies who do that. My husband does it too. And it drives me nuts. Sometimes, it's not even pointing, just a head nod type of thing.
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I thought about telling this story in the "for the men" thread, but I am sure you ladies have a better appreciation for romance than they do!
When I was in the 8th grade, in 1970, there was a girl I liked a lot, but I was quite shy, so I didn't tell her. Halfway through the school year, my family moved to another part of the city (Tucson, Arizona). Now that I was away from this girl, I got my nerve up and mailed her a letter. We exchanged a few letters, during which time I confessed my feelings for her. Eventually she moved to San Diego with her family, and that was the end of that.
29 years later, in 1999, I was looking on the web for different people I had known. This girl's last name was VERY distinctive, so I figured maybe I could find out where she was and what she was up to, just out of curiosity. It took me almost no time at all. She was a lawyer in San Diego. Her father, who had been a lawyer when I knew her, was now a retired judge. I even found a picture of her.....which was harder to do back then than it is now.
I sent "Gina" an e-mail. I told her she probably wouldn't remember me, then proceeded to tell her who I was.
Very soon afterwards, I received an e-mail from Gina. She said, "Of course I remember you! A girl NEVER forgets her first true love!"
Well, that kinda got to me, as I never had a clue that she considered me her first true love. What the heck had I known???.....I was only about 13 or 14 back then.
She then proceeded to tell me that just a few days earlier, before I contacted her, she had been showing her own 14 year old daughter all the letters that I had written to her so long ago. Now I was floored! After 29 years, she still had the letters! (I would have had hers, but somewhere along the way they vanished).
Gina asked for my address, because she said she wanted to send a recent photo. A few days later I received a large manilla envelope. Inside were not only photos, but the letters I had written her in 1970! I sat there reading them and started to cry, although I am not exactly sure why. I was reading about my younger self being so enamored by this girl, and all the while wondering what would have happened if she and I had never been separated.
We e-mailed a few more times after that. Then I quit using the internet and moved, and we just quit communicating. She had her life, and I had mine.
When I moved across town in 1970, I had already paid for my 8th Grade Yearbook. The school mailed it to me at my new address. But unlike everyone else's yearbook, mine has no autographs, no funny remarks, nothing but photos to remind me of that school year. It has now been 38 years. I am in Arizona, and the yearbook is in a box in a storage unit in North Carolina, which is where I lived when I found Gina on line.
When I get back to North Carolina, I am going to dig out that unsigned yearbook and mail it to Gina with a note that says:
"Gina, will you sign my yearbook?"
-Dan
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Wow is all i can say Dan that is a very touching story and yes i definately would send it to her to sign. Amazing how small of a world it is out there and you never know you might end up with her in the end if there is a chance go for it cause life is too short to let the ones you love just pass by trust me life is way to short
-PamPosted 4 months ago # -
very cool story, dan.
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DO IT! NOW !!!
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A very touching story Dan.
Perhaps you should drop her a line first.
And go and get that year book asap!Posted 4 months ago # -
This one is for all the ladies:
And i say yes darling you look
wonderful tonight ...Posted 4 months ago # -
I won't be "going for it", as I have been happily with someone for 15 years (she even approved of my contact with Gina in 1999). But I still want her to sign my yearbook.
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It's interesting how things / situations, control our lives. I went to a friends sweet 16 party way across town, in New York, when I was about 14 years old. While there, some guys 'crashed' the party, one of them and I started talking, hit it off and I gave him my phone number, never to hear from him again. Fast forward two years later, out of the blue, he called, said he'd been cleaning out his desk and found my phone number, could he come over with his girlfriend and someone he wanted me to meet? I first said, no way, but oh well, they came by, we took a ride to a reservoir, this friend and I started talking and the other couple disappeared with a blanket.. embarrassing! But we kept on just talking and talking. When they brought me home he walked me to the 3rd floor door, tried to kiss me goodnight, I said I don't kiss guys when I first meet them, he said, why not, you're going to marry me someday, still said NO!! Needless to say, we've now got 50 happy years under our belts! Moral of this tale..if something's meant to be, it WILL be!
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i love stories like that copmom!
thanks for sharing.
:D
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robert- thanks for the song. one of the greatest love songs ever.
(patty boyd must have been an amazing woman to have been such a muse for two of the greatest musician/composers of our time)Posted 4 months ago # -
Hi Funky,
Id she inspired George Harrisson to write that beautiful love song 'Something'...
I read the full story today in Pattie Boyd : 'My hellish love triangle with George and Eric ...
-Thanks,I didn't know :)Posted 4 months ago # -
my daughter, the 3year old beatles fanatic, sometimes pretends that she's patty boyd.
although today, she specifically dressed "like a boy", so that she could be john.Posted 4 months ago # -
Is that John..as in John Lennon,Funky?
I Saw Her Standing There
Take a closer look at the girls when Paul shakes his head...Posted 4 months ago # -
Ok you guys.....now ya went and got me crying. But a always cry when I hear Eric singing "Wonderful Tonight", it's the song my brother and his wife danced to at their wedding reception and they are the first thing that pops into my mind when I hear it. (I raised my 2 younger brothers so it felt more like my son getting married than my brother). Those are all such nice stories, thanks for sharing.
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okay, after much debate with myself, i've decided to post this, since it's already public now:
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Robert, thank you for the music - those songs are wonderful.
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funkymom.......that was lovely, a Beatle fan at that age, must have got it from you, cute child, was that your voice mentioning the bottle of water?
Robert....nice choice.
creamypretzel....Buckleysmom......touching tales......i am sad all over!
Paulga
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Funky, so cute but with her own hairdryer to sing into?
I'm impressed !! :)Posted 4 months ago # | Login to Send PM -
As its entertainment night or morning, i can never remember what time warp you lot are in, however its 0130 in the morning with me....whats yours?
You all know" riverdance " here is the learner stage http://www.metacafe.com/watch/865433/dancing_monkeys/Paulga
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Funky, your daughter is adorable! Is Jason, the comedian/escape artist, your brother?
Paulga, it's 8:40 PM here. I doubt I can dance as well that lot.
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bubby- her uncle had just taken her to the build-a-bear-workshop and she insisted that she needed her bear to have hair and hair accessories. the hair-dryer actually has a little fan in it, so it is a "working" hair-dryer/microphone.
paul- of course i like the beatles, but her obsession came about on her own. when she was about 1 1/2years old the beatles became her imaginary friends. for her 3 year old birthday, she requested a beatles themed party. she watches the movies and listens to cd's. and they are still her friends, or sometimes her brothers. when we go out to eat there has to be a place at the table for john, paul, george and ringo. although, recently george has been sick a lot and has not joined us for meals. he has been at the doctors office and the rest of the guys have been taking turns accompanying him.
it's really fun in my house!
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maizey- yes, my brother is an escape artist. i've been meaning to post his videos, but was never sure where to do it. my whole family is fun.Posted 4 months ago # -
Folks......i just can not get this song out of my head.......as for Katherine Jenkins....well i have most of her numbers........sigh.....lovely girl....a wishes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG_k-_w4Tx8
Paulga
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funkymom........wow thats familiar to me, the imaginary friend part, i had one for most of my childhood, but four....that takes the cookie.
My sister lived in Liverpool, still does, and not a stones throw from " Penny Lane " as in the song, when i would come home on leave i would visit her, they used to take me to the Cavern, and there the Beatles did a regular stint, but they were not famous then, little did i know.....Paulga
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oh, i wish i could have been there!
alas, i was barely a thought in my parent's (newlyweds at the time) heads.Posted 4 months ago # -
funkymom.........i was there but wished i was not........had come direct from the Troodos
mountains in Cyprus, stuck on top of a hill for three months......very quiet....relaxing,then suddenly......YEA YEA...oops ( i can do capitals...cant i )
methinks.......oh yea.....she loves you.....all i could think of was...Quan Tan Amera, for she's a Quan Tan Amera.....it was a song, gut now i like classics.Paulga
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i can understand that, but still....you did witness history in the making.
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funkymom.. she's a doll!! And not afraid to perform! Keep filming her, one never knows! Thanks for sharing!
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funkymom.....the only time i was rivited to the ground was way back in the 60's, when President John F Kennedy was shot, as you might know he visited Ireland, and at that visit i was a member of the Presidential Escort ( Motorcycle Cavalcade ) all thirty six Triumph 500cc Motorcycles, we were escorting him for the duration of his visit, the entire Country were head over heels about him, he would make a point of speaking to us man to man everytime he got the chance, we could not help but like him, anyway we were all presented with medals from him, gold to the Officers,Silver to the Non Commissioned Officers and Bronze to the Troopers," i was the latter " he also presented each of us with a tie pin in the shape of a PT Boat with 109 on it, that was the PT Boat he served in/on, he took back home with him some of my Unit Collarbadges which he took a fancy to,
Brass,Suit of Armour crisscrossed with a rifle and sword and surrounded by laurel leaves,my Unit was the 2nd Motor Squadron, Cavalry Corps ( Formerly The Blue Hussars )
but then they had horses.Paulga
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Wow.....I feel like I'm in the midst of celebrities....cool!
Funky....she is the cutest little thing! Better start preparing for American Idol.
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