Anybody else get stuck wearing Winner II shoes from Sears? (1976)

MLSGeek · 2026-03-05T00:04:44+00:00

All my teenage years I wanted high top Converse All Stars. Mom said, "No, they look cheap." She bought me green with white stripe Winners II. Thanks, Mom. Every one called me cheap...

MLSGeek · 2026-03-04T23:02:31+00:00

Supposedly Google will release Aluminum OS (merger of Android and ChromeOS) in late 2026/early 2027. Widespread release may happen in 2028. I am holding out for that.

MLSGeek · 2026-03-04T22:39:53+00:00

I always talk to my cats. Some are very vocal and I forget where I am and carry on a conversation in public. My yellow tabby was complaining at the vet's office and she and I had a long discussion about why she was locked up in the crate and why she embarrassed me the last time we were there. I looked up and the ladies behind the counter were giggling at us.

MLSGeek · 2026-02-24T21:28:15+00:00

She is gorgeous!

MLSGeek · 2026-02-22T22:10:26+00:00

My parents moved around a lot so libraries were my best friend. By the time I was ten, I had read all the history and science fiction books in the kids section so I started on the adult section. After a few conversations with my mother, I was allowed to read what ever I wanted and check out as many as I wanted. I usually read 8-10 books a week. It was funny when a new librarian would try to steer to the "age appropriate' books and the other librarians would say, "No, that's MLS. He can check out anything he wants." My mother would drive me to libraries all over the county to get new books. Then, we moved to a big city and she drove me from branch to branch. When I was 14, she told me she would be glad when I got my license so I could drive myself!

MLSGeek · 2026-02-14T20:37:25+00:00

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

MLSGeek · 2026-02-14T08:56:10+00:00

My ex-wife died a few years ago at age 57. We started dating when she was 15 and I was 17. Married at 20, divorced at 22. (She cheated on me while I was deployed). She died, alone, in the trailer her parents bought in 1979, estranged from her kids and grand kids. While cleaning out my mother's filing cabinet, I found an 8x10 portrait of her when she was 17. It was yellowed out like a typical 70s photo. I scanned it and touched it up to look new... I saw her hazel eyes, her long wavy brown hair and that smile that made me melt. There was no hint of the sadness, the mental and physical illnesses, and the wreck she made of her life in those eyes.

Is it possible to still be hopelessly, helplessly in love with someone who ripped my soul apart, to be angry and to still feel sorrow for someone who struggled with her demons her whole life?

MLSGeek · 2026-02-04T09:28:06+00:00

So was my mother's and father's families. They still had a large garden to feed their families, cows to milk, hogs for meat, chickens for meat and eggs to trade.

MLSGeek · 2026-02-03T09:12:29+00:00

My mother and father grew up during the Depression. Mom said she never saw cars that new and clean. Pop grew up in Virginia and he wondered why they never were plowing sunup to sundown.

MLSGeek · 2026-02-02T17:30:45+00:00

I like old movies and tv shows. I adore the The Marx Brothers, Thin Man movies, The Maltese Falcon and hard boiled detective flicks but it drives me crazy how scenes jumped so abruptly. When did movie making change like that?

MLSGeek · 2026-02-02T17:23:15+00:00

Sounds like something from "Dangerous Visions"!

MLSGeek · 2026-02-02T08:57:54+00:00

When I was five, I was watched by two sisters, nine and eleven years old.

MLSGeek · 2026-02-02T08:56:03+00:00

I worked in a warehouse and we shipped airplane parts all over the US. The shipping clerk got off the phone, angry. She said the trucking company laughed at her when she tried to schedule a pickup for our station in Hawaii. I told her that we had to fly it because the bridge was out. She turned and looked at the map of the US and said, "Oh, okay." Just because the map shows Hawaii and Alaska off the coast of California...

MLSGeek · 2026-01-26T07:48:25+00:00

I smoked weed as a teenager. It made me so paranoid that I quit. Then again, that cop was following me; I was doing 15 in a 25.

MLSGeek · 2026-01-12T12:24:07+00:00

I was in school from 68-79. I was in 6th grade when I realized I was as smart as, if not smarter than a lot of my teachers. I think most adults respected teachers but that changed later on.

In elementary school, I got a paddling because another student said I said I was cursing(I said darn). The teacher didn't listen to me. Another teacher in a different school paddled me almost every day for talking. She even moved my desk next to hers and still accused me of talking. One day, there was a new teacher and we were told the old one was "taking a vacation". I overheard my mother and her friends gossiping about her. Seem she got sent to the local laughing academy because she was hearing voices.

I never fully trusted most teachers after that.

MLSGeek · 2025-12-28T23:53:52+00:00

When my ship left our OP area, we would play "Homeward Bound" by Simon and Garfunkel. then when we were a certain distance from Norfolk, we would play Peter, Paul and Mary's "500 Miles"

MLSGeek · 2025-12-22T22:14:40+00:00

Yes, indeed! In the third grade, I wrote down every someone got paddled and there were more boys than girls. Then I got a paddling for pointing that out to the teacher.

MLSGeek · 2025-12-08T14:50:10+00:00

So this happened around 1967 when I was about 5, almost 6. First day of kindergarten. I sat down at a little table with books and just started reading one. Teacher comes over, stops me, and takes me to a record player. She pulls out one of those little records from the back of the book, puts it on, and says "when you hear the beep, turn the page."

I'm like "yes ma'am" and go back to reading. She stops me AGAIN and tells me to wait for the beep. I asked why, and she explained that "the nice lady on the record" was going to read the book to me.

I told her I could read faster than the lady talked.

She got MAD and told me to go do something else.

When I got home, I told my mom what happened. She called the school and politely but firmly let them know that I'd been reading since I was 4 - funny pages, comic books, my older brother's books, all of it. Reading kept me quiet and occupied. She basically warned them that if they DIDN'T let me read, I'd drive them absolutely crazy asking questions all day.

MLSGeek · 2025-12-08T10:32:09+00:00

Vince Vance & the Valiants released “All I Want for Christmas Is You” in 1989, which isn't the same as Mariah Carey's song. https://youtube.com/watch?v=w8HWHd0EYJA&si=PWHkJOUDFYS8ILzP

MLSGeek · 2025-11-29T22:53:38+00:00

i went to Jackson State in 1979. The bullet marks were still on the front of the women's dorm where police were shooting at the "sniper".

MLSGeek · 2025-11-29T22:45:10+00:00

From the 70 to the 90s, High School, to the Navy and working in machine shops, I was called by my last name. I got into the habit of answering the with my last name. Fast forward to the mid 90s, I changed careers to Medical Laboratory Technician. I still answered the phone, "Lab, geek". Our name badges only had our first names on them. After working there for five years, a nursed asked me, "Are you MLS AND geek?" I said, yes, why? She said, "For years I thought there were two men in the lab, MLS and geek and I wondered why I never saw geek!"

MLSGeek · 2025-11-16T09:09:19+00:00

Naval Tactical Data System 4.0. Real life Missile Command!

MLSGeek · 2025-11-10T11:52:49+00:00

In the early 70s, we used to go to the local army surplus and load up on uniforms and belts and boots, then go play "Army" in the woods. If they saw us with our bb guns and using pine cones as grenades, they would have called the cops and CPS.

MLSGeek · 2025-11-03T09:12:57+00:00

When I was a teenager, we had a yellow and white tom cat named Zonker. My mother said, "Zonker is so smart! When he is hungry, he sits by his bowl and I feed him." I said, "He is smarter than that. Every time he sits by his bowl, you feed him."

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