In this game where you get a number and tell that many things about yourself, I just got 9. Here goes: 1. I was the King of First Grade in Lakeview Elementary’s May Day Festival…or something. 2. When my mother and grandmother and I lived at the Pheil Hotel while my father was off to WWII, not only did I dance for dimes for the old folks lounging in the mezzanine, but I regularly went alone next door to the Jockey Club, climbed on a stool at the bar and was served, without ordering, a Shirley Temple. 3. My first experience with rock and roll was in the Pheil Theatre watching the opening credits to Blackboard Jungle and listening to the sound track of Bill Haley and the Comets doing Rock Around the Clock. I was stunned and knew I was listening to something new and powerful that I had never heard before. 4. I met Elvis Presley with Susan Upchurch Charnock backstage at the Florida Theatre. You remember when you were in the audience before the show and a shoe would stick out under the curtain and everyone would scream hoping it was Elvis but sure that it really wasn’t? It was. He was having a ball. 5. I scored a touchdown on Florida Field. In 11th grade, my father’s company ran the concessions at football games and the execs would go to Gainesville to watch the game and they took their sons along to work in the concessions. You know selling cokes and stuff. After one game, the high-school kids got up a touch football game on the field against the Coca Cola men (like who drive the trucks). I was rushing from the line but before the hike I saw the quarterback and running back winking and stuff, and I just knew the quarterback was going to lateral to the running back. I rushed in, intercepted the lateral and for some reason started running the wrong way. Evading both teams, I finally heard one of my teammates say, “Wrong way!” I turned around made it through the opposing team and scored a touchdown. Too bad Ray Graves wasn’t watching. On the other hand I guess he wouldn’t have been too impressed with a guy who runs the wrong way. 6. Once in Paris, I was walking down the sidewalk by myself in the evening. A black Mercedes pulled up to the curb. The window went down, and I saw there were two young, very classy and beautiful women in the front seats. One started speaking to me in French. All I could do was shrug my soldiers and hold up my hands to show I didn’t have the slightest idea what they were saying. They drove off. 7. Once I won a pizza in a raffle. 8. I never got drunk enough in college to consider painting the SAE lion. 9. I love my children and grandchildren more than anything.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 02:38:33 +0000
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