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The drawbacks to having younger friends

My friend, “J” whom I had not seen in 18 months was stuck in Philadelphia. Her train did not leave until 6 am. I picked her up and we got to ‘catch up’ and talk for a few hours. I invited her to my friends Stephen & Georgeanne’s for dinner every Sunday night…..I went on [...]

Riding with the London Fire Brigade

When I was a young Fire Service Instructor I heard that the London Fire Brigade was touring different fire departments through out the country. I heard that they were at the Trenton Fire Headquarters and I felt bad that they might be stuck drinking American beer. As luck would have it, at the time I [...]

spackle

When I was at Mercer county college I was part of the college radio station.  One day Bob and his brother were wrestling.  One of them pushed the other one through the wall.  The woman who ran the student center was ready to have us all thrown out.  The following day she came up to [...]

seeing the movie crazy people

While going to school in Glassboro I had a math class with the manager of the comicbook store in glassboro: She eventually withdrew from the class.  However, I did visit the store often.  Once while I was at the store I had used the bathroom in the back.  While I was in the back I [...]

sliding in bad weather

Many many years ago I was driving Home frtom Bob’s house (he lived about three miles from me) It was 2 am and there was lots of snow and ice on the ground.  I was driving at about 22 miles an hour.  I started to slide.  I looked in my rear-view mirror and there was [...]

my college nemisis

When I was in college occasionally I would take untimed tests (which I had a right to) and through most of my collegiate career I did not have any problems relation to getting untimed tests from my professors.  I even had one professor who required that I sit in his office and type my answers [...]

Vampire Lesbian Kickboxers

Vampire Lesbian Kickboxers

4/7/01Bob, myself, Brenda, Georgeanne, and Clint all left for Fangoria ‘s Weekend of Horrors in NYC.  When we arrived at the train station; we lost Bob. While I was paying for parking he stepped on a train and it took off.  The rest of us stood around wondering what happened to Bob. We finely caught up [...]

The toxic Advenger

The toxic Advenger

 On 6-5-06 at 6:07 PM I received an e-mail invitation to a book signing for , The Toxic Avenger-the Novel and the subsequent party for the book andpost production party for Poultrygiest (a movie that takes pot shots at fast food).  The book signing was on 6-6-06 in NYC.  I took a 1/2 Admin day.  [...]

the day I made the President of the United States Late

The day I made President Clinton late First some background. I am a involved with the society for creative Anachronism.  One day some friends of mine called me and asked me if I wanted to make lots of people happy and it would not cost me any money. (I was skeptical) They went on to [...]

My Experience with the US Supreme court

My experience with the U.S. Supreme court.  When I was in college I took a victomology class that, had me so traumatized that by the time it was over I was convinced that I would need a written release to just ask a woman to have coffee.   In this class we had to write [...]