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Oh boy. OK...so four things...one is a lie.

1. Me and some college roommates made the Spring Break drive to Ft. Lauderdale Florida from Rutgers (NJ) in less than 15 hours.
2. I saw a Bruce Springsteen concert from 15 feet away.
3. I once sat in the NY Mets dugout during batting practice.
4. The weekend I got engaged, it was announced from the stage during a concert by a famous rock band.

Number 4

#4 no, that was indeed done by The Smithereens, 3/4 of whom I went to grammer and high school with.

jmq wrote:#4 no, that was indeed done by The Smithereens, 3/4 of whom I went to grammer and high school with.

WOW I LOVED the Smithereens!!!

i think its 15 hours to FLA--- ssems a trifle short (i did it from St pete to Ny in 19 and we were moving along.....)

Ok so my photo was in Redbook Magazine, I was about 5 years old. I have no idea why they chose me except I think I was a giggly kid, always laughing and looked like a little "imp" and they weren't going for glamour in my shot. I'll have to dig out the photo, not sure where it is, but lets say the outfit is quite unusual. I earned $50 but better than that a big giant milkshake from the Williamsburg Lodge.

Ha! Loria you got it. Guess I shoulda padded that time a little to make it harder, but thats what the guys who went claimed they did it in, and I believed them, because they showed me the baggie of black beauty and white cross "helpers" that enabled them to not sleep or eat as they drove like madmen in shifts through the night down I-95.

Marcia (Mrs. Pete) wrote:We definitely need more players. This is fun. And, once your post has been correctly answered, you should share the stories on your three truths...

For my truths #2 and #4 are self explanatory. For #3, the only two television programs I was allowed to watch were Little House on the Prairie and....

Monty Python's Flying Circus!

Ok, I'll play. One is false:

1. I have been held in customs in New York and questioned for bringing a sandwich with meat into the US.

2. On my honeymoon in Kauai I was too scared to snorkel, so I blamed it on my contacts instead of admitting I was scared of the fishes.

3. I have bungyjumped in New Zealand.

4. I have never smoked pot.

Maggy: #4 is incorrect? (If I'm right, I give my turn to anyone else, cause I've had mine).

1. At age 16 in London, I disobeyed the rules accidentally, and was out long past dark. A very nice man from Argentina walked 1/2 hr with me back to our hotel. When I reached the hotel, I worried how to "ditch him," but he was gone.
3. Ex husband insisted on stopping at every Radio Shack between here and Toronto, and we missed our flight to London, in 1991. I didn't speak to him until we were FAR South of Newcastle, in our rental car.
4. Ex and I were hiking in Telluride and met the guy as he was unpacking his girlfriend in the back of VW camper. Jumped off a ridge sitting in front of him, in a tandem gliding suit, 1/2 hr later. Paid him $50 for the priviledge and would do it again in a heart beat!

Unpacking his girlfriend? As in body parts?

hmmmm,
so nobel prize winner is in the same field as DH and they sometimes kayak together--so i make breakfast for the kayakers every week..
MJ (from AB ) is from Marblehead, where i grew up--turns ou we knowsome of th esmae people--small world!

Crete--flight to CHania was cancelled (DH was there at a meeting) so took a flight to Iraklion, figuring i would sort it there--no buses running when we arrived--so hitched out of the airport--was picked up by a lovely woman who was on the same flight she was travelling to Rethymnon (SP?)--about halfway--tried to hitch from there --but there were NO cars and the highway was NOT lit---ended up walking into town from teh highway and hiring a cab--being young and poor that was a truly hard expense (especially after just flying from NY.....)

The true stories...
2. I saw a Bruce Springsteen concert from 15 feet away = October 13, 1976 from 5th row center at Kean College in Union NJ in their brand new acoustically designed 800 seat theater.
Bruce and the E Street band (with the Miami horns) took the stage like tsunami, opening with Night, followed by Rendezvous, Spirit in the Night, Its My Life, Thunder Road, and She’s the One.
I remember the hairs on the back of my neck standing up and chills running down my spine several times early in the show, and thinking, “holy crap, he can’t top that one"...and then, they would proceed to do just that.
One time he came off the stage and into the crowd right next to us. It was crazy, frenetic, tons of fun.
I had heard the stories about his shows from kids at Rutgers who came from Asbury and other shore towns, but I had never seen anything like it. And even though I was only 19 at the time I also remember thinking after the show that what I had just experienced could wind up being the best live performance I would EVER see when you consider the combination of seat location, sound, and performance.
And indeed that is true.
The only shows that have come close were other Springsteen concerts (some memorable Spectrum shows in Philly) and seeing The Who from the 20th row at the legendary 3200 seat Capitol Theater in Passaic NJ (first shows after Keith Moon died).

3. I once sat in the NY Mets dugout during batting practice = my friends Dad knew Rube Walker the pitching coach.
4. Already explained (Smithereens)

Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce!

JMQ--tell your friends i am still a huge fan--I work out to smithereens!--if memory serves i saw them in boston......