Sunday Stealing

When I Was Young

1. Tell us about a time when your family got a newfangled invention (your first air conditioner, color TV, VCR, microwave, computer, etc.).

A. I remember when my brother received an Atari for Christmas. This was the first year they were out, and my father found him one by just happening to be at a store when they were being unloaded. The store owner said all of them were claimed, and my father said, "Yes, but I'm standing here with cash," and thus snagged one of the games. Or so the story goes. It played Pong, as I recall.

2. Is there a particular song that sparks a childhood memory?

A. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious! If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!" I had a little jukebox-like music player that played this song, along with "Do Re Me" from the Sound of Music. It was through careful listening that I eventually learned that the latter song did not say, "Te, a drink with Jane and Fred" but instead said, "Te, a drink with jam and bread."

3. What is something an older family member taught you to do?

A. My mother taught me to knit and crochet, although I am not very good at either one.

4. Back in the day, what name brands would we have found in your family's kitchen?

A. Kraft Mayonnaise, Capt'n Crunch, Kraft American Cheese, Valley Dale weiners, Oscar Meyer bologna.

5. As a child, did you collect anything (rocks, shells, stickers, etc.)?

A. I once had a small collection of quartz rocks, which I hid in the rocks along the creek bank. There was a nice hidey hole in a ledge in the creek in an area where I wasn't supposed to be. I wonder if they are still there, of if they've been flooded out or otherwise sent swirling downstream.

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