27 Aug 2023 2:09 am
Bruce » 26 Aug 2023, 5:43 pm » wrote: ↑ I’m still a young old man, but at 65 I am an old man, reminiscing about how damned delicious Betty looked in her black and orange cheerleader outfit and how the other, taller girls that weren’t from Cliqout sort of acted like they were better than Betty.
The other girl’s fathers owned dairy farms or stores or were were the daughters of the dentist and the Superintendent of Schools, and Betty’s Daddy worked for the Frisco Line as a Section Foreman, at the Cliqout Station,
Somewhere up in heaven is my school teacher mother, who detested high school sports as waste of educational resources and yet made me be the manager if I wanted to see the basketball games.
She’d been a college roommate of Principal Lela Fern who’d more or less adopted young Coach Randy and I suppose that’s how I got my Orange and black blazer and orange tie and rode the bus to all the away games with the team.
Then in October 1973 came the Yom Kipper War and we didn’t know it then but the First Gas Crisis changed our lives from that day to this day and eventually led to President Donald Trump.
The entire country blamed those **** rag headed camel jockeys and not Richard Nixon or his support for Israel.
When I’d get back from riding the bus the sprig of 1974 gasoline had doubled, and I saw my first new little **** box cars, and there was a 55 mph national speed limit.
The great American nation had gone backwards, for very first time.
It gave fodder for Trumpism forty years later.
Do not worry.
We can work things out.
