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Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/7/2011 1:20:23 AM   
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I don't know how to explain it.

I heard these young very strong male voices, just as sitting in my room, doing research. They kept getting louder.

Don't ask me why or how, but something 'came to me' that said "these guys need a larger space."

They were in the street, across the way, I had already met their mom before when she graciously jumped off my dead battery with her jeep.

I strolled down the driveway slowly, and they kept trying to calm their dog, whom they did not realize that I had already met before on at least 2 prior ocassions, so we were already familiar.

Teenage boys they were, and they had so much to get out, and were talking all over each other. I don't know why I even ventured to delve into any of that, but there I found myself. I only said a couple of words and next thing I knew I was into deep dicussion with them, on 20 things at once. But mostly them talking, as I'd want it. One of them (the younger brother) had 'issues' with guys dressing up as ladies. I should tell you that I got it all straightened out with the guys that some are born as they are born, mostly hetero, but ocassionally homo, and they responded so quickly, 'yeah dude!' They understood that. But even still, this younger one had trouble with the cross dressing thing."Why are they trying to dress up as women when they are guys?"

As I said earlier, I felt that there was some need for 'more space' here, so I just let him go on for a bit. Let him get it out, fatigue himself and move on. I then told him about my coworker Bill up in Charlotte that was the best cross dresser guy I had ever seen, actually knew what fitted him the best, didn't try to look like a woman to the n'th degree, etc. Slim guy he was, so that might have helped.

Once they found out that Bill was, by my estimation, one of the best lighting guys around, (both as light light designer, and even almost as good a light board operator as I was) then that's all they wanted to talk about.

Those kids are so easily distracted.


What I find myself most encouraged by is that at least some of the young folk today still need touch, and take that as a 'given' to progress regarding how people get to know each other. I've sat here and bitched about the video games, etc., but these guys hugged me, shook hands at least three times each, jumped and almost giggled when I slapped their backs, etc.

I could not believe this.

Yes, I definitely need to get out more.


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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/7/2011 10:55:06 AM   
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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/7/2011 10:57:53 AM   
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I love when folks go up to the light board and ask them to adjust the sound.. "dude, crank up the bass!!!"

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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/7/2011 12:12:27 PM   
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I was actually more a 'sound guy' than a 'light guy,' and the aforementioned Bill was certainly better than I was on the LB, but I took artistic liscence there.

Programming the scenes into the show during rehearsals is the hard part in running the light board, especially if with half-witted light designer and/or dimwit director. In running the show, you just push the que button per stage manager's call, or if a music concert with no stage manager, just bring everything up full and alternate between amber or blue being 80% or 100%.


Running sound is the same for rehearsal and show, meaning, not easy at any time. Not to say it wasn't fun sometimes. Going quickly from tape machine to CD to bringing up the fader for the floor mic and then restarting the tape machine -just- when the dancer's foot hit the floor, which I took as a sight que viewed from 90 ft. away...

Heck yeah.

Good fun.




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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/7/2011 12:16:50 PM   
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Glad you gave some positves there....

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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/7/2011 12:35:33 PM   
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You know the drill, Lance! Come 15-20 years down the road these Highschoolers are going to be deciding if they'll let us have our SS or not. Ha.

But truthfully, I was both enlightened and encouraged by the experience.







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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/7/2011 7:11:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm not really sure what the point of this thread is, other than to say you took the time to actually converse with a couple teens and found them to be reasonably normal and intelligent human beings. You seem to find this surprising and in someway worthy of passing on to others. I'm not sure why this is so, but I'm going to take a wild guess and say you don't have teenage kids.

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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/7/2011 7:38:00 PM   
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This is true, that I do not myself have kids.

I've had something close to the experience when various sisters or other female acquaintences  lived in my house for years at a time, kids in tow. In that case, I've actually lived most of adult life with kids of various ages in the house.

If you were, for whatever reason, expecting this to be something more grand than other as was presented, a nice experience in meeting new kids across the street, then I'm sorry to have let you down if that be the case.



But not really.







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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/7/2011 11:45:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		I didn't expect anything really, I just wondered why you considered chatting with a couple kids to be "The Most Wonderful Time" and why you considered it worth posting about. I have the experience you described every 2 or 3 days, in fact its pretty much what 99% of my encounters with teens are like, so to me it's like posting to say "I went to the grocery store and I found almost everything I wanted, and stood in line for a few minutes, and then when it was my turn the girl rang it up and I paid. Then I left and carried the groceries home."

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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/8/2011 5:17:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		I dont know. We hear so many bad things about kids that I think this post was fun reading. And yes I have 4 children. Im happy that the poster experienced something positive. 

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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/8/2011 8:50:06 PM   
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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/8/2011 9:32:41 PM   
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I'm not sure how the OP could have come across so negatively here.

I was not assumng the people in question to be dickheads before I even went to meet, much less did I have any expectation in that regard. Had I any intuition things might be in that direction, I most certainly would not have gone there.

I was only revisiting an experience that I've had several times in years past.
If I see some couple of things and find value in the latest go-round that seems new to me, then so be it. Would it be more acceptable if I were to have said that I found these teens to be exactly as how it was ten years ago, or how it was when at that point in life myself?

Take recognition of the evolutionary process as insult if you like. Whatever rocks your world.





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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/9/2011 12:40:55 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Arpig

so to me it's like posting to say "I went to the grocery store and I found almost everything I wanted, and stood in line for a few minutes, and then when it was my turn the girl rang it up and I paid. Then I left and carried the groceries home."



You are a Canadian. That's how everything in life looks to you.

You missed at least 6 different points in the post, but we can overlook that here.

Back to bed now. What you do best.



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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/9/2011 8:02:01 AM   
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I'm not sure how the OP could have come across so negatively here.
That's because you know what you had in mind when you wrote it. And if you wrote in a clear and comprehensible style, rather than the convoluted and opaque one you use, I might have seen it the way you did too. But because you're so utterly enamoured of your clumsy and childlike sentence structures and poorly chosen wording, that wasn't the case.



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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/9/2011 8:08:20 AM   
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I'm not sure how the OP could have come across so negatively here.

I was not assumng the people in question to be dickheads before I even went to meet, much less did I have any expectation in that regard. Had I any intuition things might be in that direction, I most certainly would not have gone there.


maybe it's just because I am of a certain age, but I got none of the above from the op.. crap.. does that make sense?  I'm sleepy and it's too early to go nap...

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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/9/2011 8:21:13 AM   
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I think it's being demonstrated to us where all the assumptions are residing here.





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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/9/2011 9:45:42 AM   
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You are a Canadian. That's how everything in life looks to you.
You missed at least 6 different points in the post, but we can overlook that here.
Back to bed now. What you do best.


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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/9/2011 3:21:32 PM   
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You are a Canadian. That's how everything in life looks to you.
So not only are you a proven unrepentant liar, you are also so weak minded as to resort to idiotic digs at a where a person is from.  If you are going down that road, at least try to be funny.

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You missed at least 6 different points in the post, but we can overlook that here.
And you missed the one point I made...that if you interacted with teenagers on anything more than an occasional basis you would have known that there was absolutely nothing out of the ordinary in your encounter. The points you made only seem important to somebody with no knowledge of teenagers today, and no memory of teenagers of the past. To those who do interact with teens, and who do recall the past factually, they are givens.

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I'm not sure how the OP could have come across so negatively here.
Because the OP is all about how surprised you were by the kids and their ability to be basically normal. You were clearly expecting something different, otherwise you would not have considered it "The Most Wonderful Time" and thought it worth posting your little love letter.




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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/9/2011 3:46:37 PM   
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And if you wrote in a clear and comprehensible style
Now, now, don't be that way. He's from Georgia, English isn't his native language.

(Catch that Fast Eddy? That's how you make a regional jab)


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RE: Just Had The Most Wonderful Time - 6/9/2011 5:16:14 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Arpig

quote:

And if you wrote in a clear and comprehensible style
Now, now, don't be that way. He's from Georgia, English isn't his native language.

(Catch that Fast Eddy? That's how you make a regional jab)




That is actually excellent. So cute.

I never understood why you got up so barking mad in a fiercely defensive but quite patently aggressive attack in the first place.

Calm down folks, it was just a lame story, I never intended it otherwise.

It was just a relation of my own experience, and not a novel one but only the  just recent rendition, not intended as commentary on 'the younger generation.'

This being one of several points missed by the recently self-inserted 'host' to this whole affair,  but starting with the easy part here.

At least for most readers, the more erudite of whom never needed explanation to begin with, if you read back in the thread.














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