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There was an ongoing competition for bragging rights among the coaches and a math teacher in Jr High. Who could build the scariest looking and most brutal paddle. I got to test a few.
I got 5 swats for chewing gum in class. This was in 1970-71 in a small town school. It hurt, but I was so mad and embarrassed I refused to show any pain.
I remember when fishing line was not transparent. When the stuff was made out of black and green cotton...funny - I just thought of that this morning for some strange reason. I was thinking about how I used to fish as a kid. I would walk across the field to the lake...on the way I would look for leopard frogs...young ones I would swat with a willow stick...Then I would get to the little lake that was full of bass and pike - put a frog on a cotton hand line and toss it into the drop off.
I remember it clearly - It was fall and the water was silvery. So was this huge bass that I hauled in by hand...it was a great way to fish- You could feel the fish take the hook and the fight they put up ...It was great...Looking back - it was a wonderful childhood spent very close to nature.
I am so old I remember when the environment was called nature.
I remember when fishing line was not transparent. When the stuff was made out of black and green cotton...funny - I just thought of that this morning for some strange reason. I was thinking about how I used to fish as a kid. I would walk across the field to the lake...on the way I would look for leopard frogs...young ones I would swat with a willow stick...Then I would get to the little lake that was full of bass and pike - put a frog on a cotton hand line and toss it into the drop off.
I remember it clearly - It was fall and the water was silvery. So was this huge bass that I hauled in by hand...it was a great way to fish- You could feel the fish take the hook and the fight they put up ...It was great...Looking back - it was a wonderful childhood spent very close to nature.
I am so old I remember when the environment was called nature.
Another traveler from the land of antiquity.
You brought back some nice memories. I was probably about 16 years old before I had a "store bought" fishing pole. But the memories of using a hardline and fishing line that looked more like gift wrapping ribbon instead of today's "invisible" line is a very warm Memory.
In today's world a sad fact is: some of today's kids reading your story, would ask "What's a frog?"
I too remember when nature was "Natural".
I wonder when somebody is going to figure out how to put an "On-Off" switch on Niagara falls. so every tourist can have the exact same view.
I remember when fishing line was not transparent. When the stuff was made out of black and green cotton...funny - I just thought of that this morning for some strange reason. I was thinking about how I used to fish as a kid. I would walk across the field to the lake...on the way I would look for leopard frogs...young ones I would swat with a willow stick...Then I would get to the little lake that was full of bass and pike - put a frog on a cotton hand line and toss it into the drop off.
I remember it clearly - It was fall and the water was silvery. So was this huge bass that I hauled in by hand...it was a great way to fish- You could feel the fish take the hook and the fight they put up ...It was great...Looking back - it was a wonderful childhood spent very close to nature.
I am so old I remember when the environment was called nature.
Oleg, did your bass taste like leopard frog?
I'm old enough to remember when girls had to wear dresses to school and boys were not allowed to wear blue jeans or t-shirts.
I got 5 swats for chewing gum in class. This was in 1970-71 in a small town school. It hurt, but I was so mad and embarrassed I refused to show any pain.
I hear ya'! We usually did more to earn ours! Guess the town wasn't small enough. That or they were just mean.
Probably that Texas heat, SATX. That'll make anyone mean.
Probably so! They enjoyed spanking bare butts coming from the showers. Pretty sadistic coaches. What were they thinking ...showers at school?
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They enjoyed spanking bare butts coming from the showers. 