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Originally Posted by svandamme

My mum's favorite thing when she was angry was daring me that she was more pigheaded then i was, and that i really didn't want to go there.

My standard response was "let's rock".

Then she would cut all the cables of my computer and stereo while i'm off to school,
And she would be very friendly when i get home.
That was a tell tale sign to me, to look what she had done.
Went up to my room, saw the cables, got everything back online in like an hour or so, soldered, or with screw terminals.. so by the time she came up to my room to gloat.. I was sitting there smiling like it was xmas..

She got so angry she tossed the tv out the window (3rd floor, row house , city center).
to which i replied... you do realize that is in fact your TV , right? Mine is out for repairs?

Bwahahahaha!

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Oh yea. Lots of airplanes. I remember one day at Hickam AFB when we were riding our bikes we saw a large group of men all looking at the runway. We found a gap and saw a U2 up close as he was ready for take off. It looked like something from the future.

When Apollo 11 returned from the moon the astronauts were locked up in the module to protect us from the moon germs.

That module came thru Hickam AFB with a few blocks of our house. It arrived from the Navy base which was just adjacent to the AFB. It was loaded up on a AF transport for them to go home. Anyway we have a home movie of me riding my bike waving to Neal Armstrong and he waved back at me.

It was cool to hang out at the Officers club pool. It was right on Pear Harbor. I remember eating a hamburger and all of a sudden the horizon turned Grey and an aircraft carrier cruised by just a few yards from the dock. Those things are HUGE. We would see the nuke subs cruise past all the time.

The Navy base had a better hobby shop than the AFB so we would ride our bikes over there to buy our models. We had to show our ID to get on the Navy base even though we were coming thru the gate from the AFB to the Navy base. We had to produce our ID to get off the navy base and they would not let me on the Navy base if I had my camera.

Cool!