Random memories from yesteryear - Got any?

Bretrick

Bretrick

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At a barbeque, someone peed in my beer (unbeknownst to me) and I drank some.
I tried to eat an acorn and it was very bitter.
On a school trip to the snowfields I was on a toboggan and smashed into the teachers below.
Almost drowned at Twilight Beach in Esperance when taken out by a rip tide.
I remember looking out the passenger window of a car I was in going straight ahead, - Sideways - waiting for the car to flip.
Being unable to move whilst scaling this mountain. My body froze for 20 minutes. Eventually I was able to descend.
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Born in a British seaport - got a steady career in the NHS and finished up in Oz in the middle of what was once a 60 acre cattle forest now reduced to 8 acres for me ; surrounded by the majestic boab trees and always in ever danger of fires - it's peaceful and the local health care org comes and picks me up for various functions including weekly shopping but they will never take me to the off-license to buy a bottle or too! - my pig dog shares my granny flat - no grannies so far??
 
I was kidnapped from the street by an unknown woman when I was 2 years old... and then left at midnight drugged asleep in the middle of the road, where I was found by a Bus driver on his way back to the depot...Thank god back in the day we didn't have the traffic we have today..

When I was about 11 or 12.. the Queen came to where we lived, and opened a club or something.. I was close enough to touch her... but I was more amazed at the size of her HUGE shiny Claret Rolls Royce with the top down... it was the biggest car I'd ever seen.. she was beautiful all dressed in lemon.... not the actual picture... same car same colours

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I have a head full of memories. I'm known in my family as the one who remembers everything about the family past (now, if I could just apply that to where my glasses are or where I put down the car keys.....).

The Spousal Equivalent, on the other hand, claims to remember very little about his childhood. He says it wasn't traumatic or anything, but he says he can't remember much. I'll ask questions and his answer almost always is, "I don't remember..." I can't decide whether he truly can't remember, has blocked it out, or if he can remember and doesn't want to talk about it.
 
I've written about the remote logging camp high in the Cascade Mountains where I spent my youth. One summer a major forest fire was burning very close to camp and the Company decided to evacuate the few children who lived up there.

The only way in or out of the camp was by rail, riding on gas fueled contraptions we called "Speeders". We were rounded up and accompanied by a few mothers and two loggers scooted off for the lower camp.

At a point we had to cross a high wooden trestle that was adjacent to the fire. The men stopped the speeder to inspect the trestle and found some of the lower logs were on fire. They tied water soaked rags to our faces to deal with the thick smoke and then we dashed across to the other side and made it out of the active fire zone.

The Company sent a fire crew up the line and were able to save the trestle although some repair was needed.
 
hollydolly said:
I was kidnapped from the street by an unknown woman when I was 2 years old... and then left at midnight drugged asleep in the middle of the road, where I was found by a Bus driver on his way back to the depot...Thank god back in the day we didn't have the traffic we have today..

When I was about 11 or 12.. the Queen came to where we lived, and opened a club or something.. I was close enough to touch her... but I was more amazed at the size of her HUGE shiny Claret Rolls Royce with the top down... it was the biggest car I'd ever seen.. she was beautiful all dressed in lemon.... not the actual picture... same car same colours

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How horrible! Bless your heart. I wouldn't blame you for being bitter but it seems you've kept a level head despite it all. I'm from the USA but I think it would have been a great memory to have been that close to Queen Elizabeth. I don't know that much about the Royalty over there but Queen Elizabeth always seemed pretty down to earth considering her stature. I think Catherine Princess of Whales comes across that way also.
 
TeePee said:
How horrible! Bless your heart. I wouldn't blame you for being bitter but it seems you've kept a level head despite it all. I'm from the USA but I think it would have been a great memory to have been that close to Queen Elizabeth. I don't know that much about the Royalty over there but Queen Elizabeth always seemed pretty down to earth considering her stature. I think Catherine Princess of Whales comes across that way also.
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LOL>. just a little correction ..it's Catherine Princess of Wales ( which is a country within the United kingdom).. :love:
 
When I was in high school, I was voted Queen of the Junior Prom. My current boyfriend at the time, did not like it. He went to a different school and after the Prom, he started calling me Queenie, it wasn't said in a flattering way. I liked him a lot, so let it go. After some time, he quit but I think he was jealous. We broke up after graduation and he started dating other girls.
 
Rae said:
When I was in high school, I was voted Queen of the Junior Prom. My current boyfriend at the time, did not like it. He went to a different school and after the Prom, he started calling me Queenie, it wasn't said in a flattering way. I liked him a lot, so let it go. After some time, he quit but I think he was jealous. We broke up after graduation and he started dating other girls.
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I bet now.. he goes around bragging to his friends..all these years later... that he once dated a Prom Queen....

Oh well his loss... :D
 
@hollydolly, you know after I was married and went to work at a company that had salesmen. I answered the phone and there was a call that I think was him. He was a salesman that wanted to talk to our salesmen. Anyway, we talked a while and he suggested that if he was in town, could we meet up. I said, no, I am married and I couldn't meet up with him. I still wonder if it was him because he had the same name as the old boyfriend. He did live in another state.:unsure:
 
Rae said:
@hollydolly, you know after I was married and went to work at a company that had salesmen. I answered the phone and there was a call that I think was him. He was a salesman that wanted to talk to our salesmen. Anyway, we talked a while and he suggested that if he was in town, could we meet up. I said, no, I am married and I couldn't meet up with him. I still wonder if it was him because he had the same name as the old boyfriend. He did live in another state.:unsure:
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Rae... if you thought it was him it probably was... but you got a lucky escape because he was probably married.. and there he was asking out who he thought was a random woman on the phone...
 
@hollydolly, yes, that is what I thought, too. The town he called from was the town he moved from when he was in high school. He was so good looking and very conceited. When talking to him I hinted at some things that might give him a clue to who I was but was relieved when I got off the phone and him not knowing. Some things are just strange.
 

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