[Rick Lee]

Born in 1971, but still lived through some stuff that is unthinkable for today's kids. I remember when our school bus slid off the road due to some ice and we had to get out to push it out of the ditch - probably illegal today. When I was about four, every day my dad would come home from work on his motorcycle, take his helmet off, put it on me and take me for a ride around the block. Around that same time my kindegarten class all dressed up in early American costumes and went down to a local TV studio to say the Pledge of Allegiance while all standing on a set of bleachers (would probably be illegal today). Soon therafter Channel 11 ran that clip of us every night for a week after Gunsmoke and before Adam 12.

My mom was one of those marketing research people that came up to you in the mall to ask you try this food or drink and then take a survey on it, similar to the Pepsi Challenge commercials. Ron Howard was filming the movie Cotton Candy in the local mall and I got to go watch some of that, got an autographed photo too.

I was Gene Simmons for Halloween in 1977 and I might do that again next year.