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Tommy_Carcetti

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55. It would have to be 1995.
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 12:29 PM
Feb 2013

Started as a sophomore year in a private high school that I hated. I planned my escape and was able to get back to the public high school where my old friends were.

And that summer was awesome, just awesome. It was the last summer before my parents made me get a summer job, so I just had fun. Spent most of the time at the pool, where I met the first love of my life and the girl I would eventually take to prom. And the family vacation was awesome too--spent most of the nights at the pool with the cute girl who lived next door to the place were were staying and her cute friends.

Cal Ripken broke the consecutive games record, I heard "Starla" by the Smashing Pumpkins for the very first time, I learned how to drive, and when I started back at my public school, I earned Straight A's for the very first time in my life. And I took a civics class with an incredible teacher who set me on my career course and helped give me a proper world perspective.

Just an awesome year.

1972 In_The_Wind Feb 2013 #1
Cool! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #2
1984 Boomerproud Feb 2013 #3
Cool BP! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #5
Outstanding. Boomerproud Feb 2013 #46
69 graywarrior Feb 2013 #4
My hero! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #6
I was clueless graywarrior Feb 2013 #7
Bullshit! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #9
. graywarrior Feb 2013 #11
Fucking A! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #12
That's all we ever said back then. graywarrior Feb 2013 #13
Said that,....and,...."you call this a clean lid? Fuck you,...it's not worth a nickel!" ohiosmith Feb 2013 #16
And "Is he a freak or a narc?" graywarrior Feb 2013 #23
If he's a narc,...he has to tell us! It's the law! Aske him! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #25
I thought everyone was a narc graywarrior Feb 2013 #27
Paranoia was one of the coolest parts of getting high! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #28
Cruising around high as a kite scared to death the "pigs" would pull us over. graywarrior Feb 2013 #29
Don't freak me out! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #30
Just don't get caught with Zig Zags graywarrior Feb 2013 #31
Oh fuck! Paraphernalia paranoia! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #33
Head shops! graywarrior Feb 2013 #34
This side-thread is epic. Bertha Venation Feb 2013 #54
Let's roll it and smoke it! graywarrior Feb 2013 #57
Here kitty, kitty, kitty! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #58
Hahahahahaha! graywarrior Feb 2013 #59
And,....just one paper! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #61
I forgot about that. graywarrior Feb 2013 #62
Dug that too! If I had to pick a fav, it would be blowing a joint through a hole in an apple! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #67
Or using Vodka instead of water in the water pipe graywarrior Feb 2013 #70
Dig it! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #68
That just got me high graywarrior Feb 2013 #71
Far out! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #72
Right on, man! graywarrior Feb 2013 #73
I mean like,....it totally blew my mind! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #74
It was heavy, man. graywarrior Feb 2013 #75
Righteously! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #76
psycho delic ! graywarrior Feb 2013 #77
Trippy! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #79
I need a hit graywarrior Feb 2013 #81
No one does! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #83
Then sock it to me, baby graywarrior Feb 2013 #84
Sock it to you? ohiosmith Feb 2013 #85
They were all high graywarrior Feb 2013 #86
So were we! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #88
I was never not high. Ever. graywarrior Feb 2013 #89
GET A ROOM YOU TWO!! madinmaryland Feb 2013 #93
Only if there's drugs.....hahaha graywarrior Feb 2013 #95
I'm out of weed but have some banana peels we can smoke! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #99
I got catnip. graywarrior Feb 2013 #101
Far out! I think I know that dude! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #102
He used to be a narc! graywarrior Feb 2013 #103
Yea! He looks more mellow! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #106
I know a vacant house where we can all crash! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #98
Can the band practice there? graywarrior Feb 2013 #107
Right on! We have an extension cord wired into the light post out front! Tell them to bring some ohiosmith Feb 2013 #109
I always loved the "who was supposed to get toilet paper" arguments between band members graywarrior Feb 2013 #110
Bless both of you! Paulie Feb 2013 #112
The drummer! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #113
It was pipi_k Feb 2013 #8
Don't be sad PK! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #10
It's OK... pipi_k Feb 2013 #20
This question Loryn Feb 2013 #52
1973 was a very good year to me. I would go back in a heartbeat. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2013 #14
So would I. In_The_Wind Feb 2013 #15
I could live that year in a continuous loop and be forever happy. Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2013 #18
I understand. In_The_Wind Feb 2013 #22
Cool TA! ohiosmith Feb 2013 #17
;>) Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2013 #19
1973 pretty much sucked for me Art_from_Ark Feb 2013 #108
1966 femmocrat Feb 2013 #21
I graduated from high school that year. In_The_Wind Feb 2013 #24
Any year from 1973 to 1979 when I lived in Austin, Tx. texanwitch Feb 2013 #26
Cool! Got pics of the house? ohiosmith Feb 2013 #60
1999... a la izquierda Feb 2013 #32
Wouldn't we all? ohiosmith Feb 2013 #100
1998. Neoma Feb 2013 #35
1966 was a good one, Blue_In_AK Feb 2013 #36
1998 LostinRed Feb 2013 #37
1964 BlueJazz Feb 2013 #38
1992... The year I ran into MrG again, 3 years after we broke up. ScreamingMeemie Feb 2013 #39
1978 Mojorabbit Feb 2013 #40
2008 Jamaal510 Feb 2013 #41
2001 bigwillq Feb 2013 #42
1965, with 1967 a close second...when time travel's perfected, I'm going back! VOX Feb 2013 #43
Ah...1965. Had a Mustang and was an aspiring artist. mia Feb 2013 #91
1980 UncleYoder Feb 2013 #44
I think it was about 2002, tavalon Feb 2013 #45
1984 Myrina Feb 2013 #47
Dunno that I'd re-do any particular year. davsand Feb 2013 #48
1967 TrogL Feb 2013 #49
1983. Denninmi Feb 2013 #50
1991 TM99 Feb 2013 #51
Any year between 1993 and 1999. Bertha Venation Feb 2013 #53
It would have to be 1995. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2013 #55
I've had good ones, bad ones, great ones and terrible ones. But, Moondog Feb 2013 #56
1971 era veteran Feb 2013 #63
1967. GoCubsGo Feb 2013 #64
If this is optional, I'd say "none of them". MadrasT Feb 2013 #65
1984-85 geardaddy Feb 2013 #66
1974--the year nothing went wrong! lastlib Feb 2013 #69
1998 tabbycat31 Feb 2013 #78
2005 robertkdem1965_h89 Feb 2013 #80
2076 -- that TriCentennial Celebration was GREAT!!!! Oops... MiddleFingerMom Feb 2013 #82
The summmer of 1951 - just before I turned five. Six, seven and eight were great too. mia Feb 2013 #87
June 1 1967 to August 17 1967 triguy46 Feb 2013 #90
I can just see you as a clueless 19-yr-old, wondering why none of the nurses at the Free Clinic... MiddleFingerMom Feb 2013 #92
2008. The election of the first African-American President. Will 2016 be another first?? madinmaryland Feb 2013 #94
I'd settle for a single day; a single moment... January 6, 1973, 10:00AM Xipe Totec Feb 2013 #96
1973 shanti Feb 2013 #97
This message was self-deleted by its author applegrove Feb 2013 #104
Oh, God, NONE of them! Not if I have to make the same mistakes again. But there was ONE day... Honeycombe8 Feb 2013 #105
1969 Art_from_Ark Feb 2013 #111
1968 or 1975 slackmaster Feb 2013 #114
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