What were your Two Main Hobbies During Teen Years?

Member of airplane model building club. Line controled powered craft and gliders ... Scouts

Picture of me with little brother and dad that appeared in the local fish wrapper back in the day ...
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I had sports after school (Football, Wrestling, Baseball) and during the summer. Any free time I had I built model airplanes and listened to rock and roll & folk music. Of course I dated a lot in the evenings and on weekends. I kept busy and out of trouble...most of the time. I also had a job during the summer, which funded my dating...
 
Me too, only mostly in my head. However on reflection, I probably had more girls in my arms than most. My hobby was Latin & Ballroom dancing. The second would have to be cycling. At the age of 14 I was knocked down on a crossing shattering my right leg. Recovery took a year in hospital for the bones and nerve ends to recover, then it was cycling and more cycling to get full muscle recovery.
Sounds very serious. How many fractures did the leg sustain?
 
Didn't have any. Too busy dancing, singing and hanging with friends.

Well, maybe reading, playing cards and chess, but those weren't really hobbies.

Teens didn't last that long anyway.
From thirteen to nineteen. Seven years.
 
Sounds very serious. How many fractures did the leg sustain?
The tibia & fibula were broken in a number of paces between the knee and ankle. That was easy enough to screw together, the difficulty was getting the nerve ends to meet up. A couple of younger surgeons had tried and failed and were considering amputation. Mr. Penrose, in the UK a surgeon becomes Mr, as opposed to doctor, it's a kind of inverted snobbery, but Mr. Penrose, aged 72 had been trying to retire, but my good fortune found him on the hospital ward.

Hearing of the other surgeon's prognosis, Mr. Penrose said: "Don't take the lad's leg off, let me try." Coming round from the anaesthetic Mr. Penrose stood at my bedside. "Wriggle your toes for me," he said. Wriggle, wriggle, wriggle. My Dad wept when he shook hands with Mr. Penrose. Full recovery took a long time but thanks to that elderly surgeon, I have lived a life with two good legs.
 
Not necessarily in this order, but romance and forgetting romance.

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My favorite scene from R & J. Then there's the balcony scene. And then everything goes to hell and you're sorry you stayed to the end.

But seriously you've put Shakespeare next to Cheech & Chong. Not sure what that indicates about you.
 


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