Comments on: Friday Happy Hour: How’d You End Up Where You Are?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:37:00 +0000

One of my male friends went for a ride around the US after his divorce. After a few months, he stopped in Las Vegas and never left. That was ten years ago.

I ended up staying in Winslow, Arizona during a road trip for several days when my clutch plate broke (this was almost 20 years ago) and they had to order the part from the factory in Detroit.

At the time, I worked in a pizza restaurant and “Take It Easy” by The Eagles was a selection on the jukebox… it became my theme song as soon as I got back and was played many times more than necessary (in a nice way, ha) for the following years that I worked there.

By: stacy

stacy — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:15:00 +0000

1. Lots. I read really fast. Recently I read The Road in three hours… and went through and added quotation marks and apostrophes to the entire thing because I couldn’t stand it without them. Blasphemous, I know.

2. College, basically. Not sure if I’m permanently settled or not, though.

3. Excuse me? Pure American Sparkling Water? Are we talking like, the raspberry, strawberry, pomegranate cranberry – THOSE types of waters? Because I also love those from Walgreens and will be upset if mine no longer has them.

4. I don’t know that I would be good at it, but I’d like to play Press Your Luck just so I could yell, “No Whammies, no whammies…. STOP!”

By: starla

starla — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:18:00 +0000

Well, I hope someone reads this actually. Well I was born in Fort Hood, TX….lived in Kileen TX (spelling?) live there till i was almost two, then move to El Paso, IL (yes there is an el paso outside of texas), then moved to minonk, IL, then back to el paso, Il, then to Peoria, IL, then to Le Roy, IL….college in Charleston, IL ( go Tony Romo, he was in my class!!), then to Bloomington, IL, where I reside today….crazinesss…..

By: kary

kary — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:22:00 +0000

I read fairly fast, but two come to mind – my twin sister handed me Into Thin Air at about 11:00 p.m. one night and I stayed up to finish it. Much more recently, I read Pillars of the Earth in one sitting – it took several hours, even for me – it was a great book but nearly 1,000 pages long. How did I end up where I am? Completely at random. I worked the night shift in a hotel in Fairfax, VA (where I am originally from) when I was 18 and the place got bought out by a management company based near Asheville, NC. The transition team they sent couldn’t stop raving about it. I was planning to go back to college anyway, so I applied to UNC-A. However, my dad had just finished a joint project with some professors from UNC-G (Greensboro) and said since one should always have choices, I should apply there, too. I did. For some reason, UNC-A never sent me an application, but UNC-G did, and I got in, so I went there. After graduation, I couldn’t get a job in GSO, so I moved back to metro DC, but always wanted to go back. 3 years ago, I decided to make the move, but there were no good jobs in GSO, so I ended up in Charlotte, NC. I like it here, but when I was 17, I’d have never even thought I’d go to school in NC, much less end up living there for years by choice.

By: linda

linda — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:09:00 +0000

3. Definitely Ecto-cooler, I still look for it although I know I’ll never find it. Also, Calgon used to make a water lillies body spray that I loved.

And like many others, there’s plenty of stuff that I know is still around but cannot find in Boston (the watermelon laffy taffy with the seeds, diet mountain dew code red…)

By: Allie

Allie — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:51:00 +0000

1. I have read many books in single days. Most of the time during fall when my dad, sister and I would spend the last few weeks before winter at our cottage. Too cold to go out and about so I’d curl up in front of the fireplace and read all day.
2. I ended up where I am because I didn’t know what else to do with myself but keep moving. I think I lacked meaning or goals I suppose. I am happy where I currently am, and I am starting to find myself bit by bit. I do have the urges to keep moving though, maybe I’ll check out the east coast next. I find a certain pleasure in being completely anonymous .
3 and 4
I can’t think of anything.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:46:00 +0000

1. The last 4 Harry Potters, Angels & Demons, most Stephen King novels, Agatha Christies (but those are so short you can usually read in about 2 hours). In fact most non-fiction … I always want to know how these things end so how could I stop?

2. After growing up in central Illinois I got out – lived in South Carolina, Alabama, Texas, and West Germany… came back so my daughter could grow up around Grandma and Grandpa. Despite being a really boring place to live, it’s a nice place to raise kids and it was good for my daughter.

3. Can’t think of any. Maybe Tab?

4. Jeopardy!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:27:00 +0000

2) I’m from one state south of where I live now, and always thought I’d end up settling down there. Then I met my husband, who unfortunately worked one state north, four hours away. He makes good money and LOVES his job, so we decided to settle anywhere within a one hour radius of his place of work. We wanted a smaller town, pretty rural, but near civilization. We looked all over, in two different states, since he works on the border. We ended up living ten minutes away from his parents, in the town next to where he grew up.

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:37:00 +0000

This isn’t really a discontinued product, but I really liked a soda they make sell in Mexico called Manzana Lift. I cant find it in the states. It was an apple soda (reminded me of carbonated cider).

Oh and I am suprised how many people with the parents

By: partiallyDeflected

partiallyDeflected — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:39:00 +0000

2. I think I’m the only person who ever moved to Nashville for reasons not related to music.

3. Bomono Turkish Taffy – you’d put it in the freezer until it was hard, slap it on a table to break it into pieces, then keep chewing for a very long time.