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Does anybody have some really strange, bizarre or otherwise outlandish things you can somehow remember?
I have no idea why or how I can remember this, but even at the age of 55 I can still remember my 7th grade (Jr High) hallway locker combination: 24-12-28. I am absolutely certain that is it. Have never forgotten it.
Even more bizarre, that same year I can still remember my first Jr. high school gym locker combination: 30-0-26. What's particularly bizarre about that is, I only had that particular lock for a month or two before my locker got broken into, and they changed my lock. I don't remember the combination of the new lock I got ... though I have a feeling if I could go back into a time machine and find out what it was, I'd say to myself, "Oh yeah, now I remember."
Those two were the first two locks I ever had in Jr/Sr High School, so maybe that has something to do with it, but I've no idea why I would particularly remember locker combinations.
I remember picking up the phone and telling the operator who I wanted to call. She would also tell me where my mom was if I woke up and she wasn't home!
And our first real phone number is seventy years old. It was simply 47J.
I remember when I was in the third grade (1963) the teacher had us put on a brief skit where we each played a different vegetable. I was a carrot (possibly because I owned a bright orange jumper, so I nailed the costume requirement). We each had a little rhyme to say. I do not remember my lines, but 57 years later, I still remember those of my friend Janice, whose rendition of The Radish was near Oscar-worthy: "My fat red body is sleek and fit/On a fine relish tray I now can sit."
I remember when I was in the third grade (1963) the teacher had us put on a brief skit where we each played a different vegetable. I was a carrot (possibly because I owned a bright orange jumper, so I nailed the costume requirement). We each had a little rhyme to say. I do not remember my lines, but 57 years later, I still remember those of my friend Janice, whose rendition of The Radish was near Oscar-worthy: "My fat red body is sleek and fit/On a fine relish tray I now can sit."
I can remember everything I got for Christmas when I was 4 years old. A set of play suitcases, a Drowsy Doll, and a kitchen playset with a fake coffee pot. I was in heaven I guess. I cant remember everything from other Christmas's though.
I can remember everything I got for Christmas when I was 4 years old. A set of play suitcases, a Drowsy Doll, and a kitchen playset with a fake coffee pot. I was in heaven I guess. I cant remember everything from other Christmas's though.
When I was 4, my grandma sent us girls a bag of costume jewelry for Christmas. I guess she'd bought up stuff at garage sales, flea markets, wherever.
Oh man! I was SOOO excited about that bag of jewelry! I specifically remember this blue and purple bangle style bracelet. It was blue, with purple rhinestones all over it. I can specifically remember running around the backyard, with the bracelet on my arm, arm held up, so the sun could make the rhinestones sparkle. I'd love to have that bracelet again. I have no idea what happened to it.
I, and all my siblings can remember all our teachers we had in school.
I can remember this, too.
Kindergarten: Mrs Roe (1st half of year). Mrs O'Donnell (2nd half of year)
1st grade: Mrs O'Donnell
2nd grade: Mrs Thomas
3rd grade: Mrs Hooks
4th grade: Mrs Nelson
5th grade: Mr Curtis
6th grade: Mrs Burns
I can pretty much remember every teacher I had in Jr and Sr High, though maybe not specifics of which years I had them. Had many of the same teachers multiple years anyway.
One other bizarre little thing I can remember is, the first few lines of the first dialog in the French book I had for my very first French class in (I think) Jr High. I think, but I'm not sure, it was 7th grade. Might have been 9th. Teacher was Mrs Holmes (who was a terrible teacher, but I digress).
Woman: Michelle, Ann, vous travaillez? Kids: Errr, non. Nous regardonz la television. Porquoi? Woman: Les Duponts arrive dans un heure ...
I used to remember more of it but that's all I can remember by now.
My French spellings might not be correct. Don't feel like looking them up.
Once in a while I pop into a used book store and look at the French books to see if maybe I can find that old one somewhere.
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I remember a song my kindergarten class performed at our "kindergarten graduation" (1980). I also remember the home phone number of the boy I liked in 7th grade (86/87). I'm particularly good with that last one - phone numbers. But phone numbers of friends you always called is one thing, but the one of the boy I liked? Weird.
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