shazzabanazza
Practically Family
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Tree climbing! Me too!!
Ah, fellow non-sport kid, ah? :eyebrows:I thought that sports- playing them or watching them- were a waste of time. I'd rather haunt a library and spend hours reading books that were in the adult section. I didn't teach myself to read, but I was reading at a 4th grade level by the time I was seven.
He-he.. lolNever mind; I forgot I'd answered these questions in post #116. :eusa_doh: lol
Oh, it was on TV, but not often and you really had to look for it. In fact, the only time I can remember my dad taking the time to watch TV was when a golf tournament was being broadcast. Dad started teaching me early--somewhere around here I have photos of me "golfing" on our front lawn when I was about three or four years old....Golf? I didn't even know it existed when I was a kid. It was not on the TV, and no one played it... [huh]
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Shy or outgoing?
Active or a couch potato?
What was your favorite toy?
What sports, if any, did you like to play?
Were you small, regular, or large for your age group?
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We must have lived in a parallel planet: I would say something about being away for a while, back then we didn't even have a landline phone, then I would follow a bus route on my pushbike, just to see how far, and where it went. I learnt(ed?) all of London's suburbs that way.I used to love to give the impression to my mom (never actually telling her an outright lie, mind you) that I was playing softball when I was actually exploring the city, riding every subway and elevated line in Chicago by myself. And this was before my 11th birthday. I was a suburban kid whose heart and soul was embedded in the city. I'd hang out at the railroad terminals- watching the pre-Amtrak intercity trains depart for destinations all over the country.
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Shy or outgoing?
Active or a couch potato?
What was your favorite toy?
What sports, if any, did you like to play?
Were you small, regular, or large for your age group?
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Not much has changed.Couch potato. I was a SERIOUS bookworm, almost to the point of fault.
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I seem to remember a penchant for ice cream.
Looking back, I am rather taken by my Dad's suit.
Now what inspired this?
We must have lived in a parallel planet: I would say something about being away for a while, back then we didn't even have a landline phone, then I would follow a bus route on my pushbike, just to see how far, and where it went. I learnt(ed?) all of London's suburbs that way.
Not much has changed.