Once Upon A Time, I...

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  1. Frank Sanoica

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    @D'Ellyn Dottir

    I am willing to guess out loud that some of those things are the product of wishful thinking.......am I close?

    Frank
     
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    Once upon a time I.....

    Lived in rental houses; one was built by my dad with no water, no electricity (we used kerosine lamps), and no bathroom (used an outhouse).
    In one house, we cooked on a kitchen coal stove with flat lids, washed dishes by hand, used a washing board, and hung clothes on a clothes line, then ironed them by hand.
    One house was beside a railroad track, and one house was in the middle of lumber stacks beside a flooring mill.
    I have worked as a janitor, a house cleaner, a cook at a bowling alley, a house painter, a truck loader, a draftsman, assembly line worker at a flooring mill, and as a teacher.
    I met a young lady just out of college who started teaching at 21 yrs of age to replace a teacher who was pregnant. We dated 3 weeks, became engaged, 4 months later, we married.

    These are all true.
     
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  3. Frank Sanoica

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    Out of electronics school for a 2 year degree, my first job was with Motorola as a "phaser" on a color TV assembly line. The sets were run along on a conveyor belt, we workers facing their open backs, the screens reflecting the image on their faces off an endless mirror facing us. Our job was to align the three electron guns in the picture tubes. Eight hours of slowly waking sidewise, stepping along, about did me in. On the second day, I could barely stand, but went in to work anyway. I quit that day.

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    @Mary Robi I am sure you got people going when they read you slept with 20 Austrian soldiers on one train trip....;)
     
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    You are correct, @Frank Sanoica, the one untrue thing on the list is a wishful thinking -- or possibly a bucket list -- item. :)
     
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    Would that bucket list contain walking on the wings of a F15 Fighter jet?
     
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    Is the F15 in flight when this wing-walking transpires? I need more details hahaha!
     
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    That's what I'm wondering too. :)
     
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    Was the plan in flight, some ask. Uh, no, not in flight. No even the strongest hair spray could withstand the 1875 mph speed of a fighter jet in the air -- not to mention the virtually vertical take off. LOL Plus, I think the seat auto-ejects when the canopy is opened, so, uh, yeah, not in flight.

    The plane was in a "tab-vee" - a hardened structure like a big long concrete igloo, sort of. I was in a choral group at the time, and one of the members was an avionics technician with access to the plane. We wanted a unique group photo, so he suggested taking it with us on and around the jet. It's where I learned that there are places on a fighter wing that are stamped "NO STEP" -- presumably because of sensitive equipment right under a panel. We were warned to look for and avoid those. :cool:
     
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    I think you mentioned before about barrel racing and hot air balloon so all that is left is >>>>
    • lived next to a federal prison
    • helped a friend win the Miss America pageant
     
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    I'm going to say they are all true.
     
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    She has already said some are false.
     
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    Oh well then I go with she didn't help a friend become Miss America.
     
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    ALL TRUE
     
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    Rebecca Ann King, from Hancock Iowa, was a dorm mate at Colorado Women's College. When she decided to enter the Colorado state pageant of the Miss America system, another friend and I helped her practice the runway walk, select a swimsuit and formal dress, and rehearse her talent. For the state pageant she sang Spinning Wheel by Blood Sweat and Tears. For the national she changed that to If I Ruled the World from the musical Pickwick.

    When I was first married to a Coast Guard officer, we lived in one of the three houses at the end of Terminal Island, part of the Port of Long Beach, CA. A federal prison was next door, and we had to go through the prison's gate guard to get to the house. Kinda limited the number of people willing to come visit. LOL

    So, yes the only thing on the original list that I have NOT -- yet -- done is riding in a hot air balloon.
     
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