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Sunday Stealing: The Never Have I Ever Questions
1. Have you ever had chicken pox? I had it while I was about 4 years-old. There was “The Great Flood” of 1955 and we had no power. Everything that I wanted to do (remember I was 5) they said, “Dr. Harvey doesn’t want you to do that!” At one point, I got up and my mother said, “Where are you going?” I responded, “To the bathroom if Dr. Harvey don’t mind!”
2. Have you ever shopped in Home Depot? Today. What are you supposed to do? They 
drove the good guys out of hardware. Kinda like Blockbuster drove out the video stores. (This I mention since I owned a chain of video stores in the 80s (1981-1990). They did not ruin my business. But had it gone another way, they would have.
3. Have you ever spied on your neighbors? Nope. Not at all interested.
4. Have you ever ridden in a limo? Quite a few times.
5. Have you ever had a pet fish? Nope. Are we having fun yet? Geez. I return to Stealing and get this crap.
6. Have you ever lied about your age? I don’t know if I did it as a youngin’. Not now. I don’t do it as an adult. Wait. There was this one time when I was 41 and my date was21. She asked if I was as old as her father. I asked his age. She said he was 38. I said, “I’m not that near your dad’s age.”
7. Have you ever fired a gun? Once. I was 17. I fired at a tree. I turned to the friend that owned it and said, “I’ll never do that again.” And I never did.
8. Have you ever been ice skating? In my youth, I skated every year from age 8.
9. Have you ever played golf? The guys of WTIT golf. In my 30s I did it a lot. My back issues started at 34 and by 40 I quit.
10. Have you ever hidden on Halloween because you had no candy for trick or treaters? Yes. The year I lived with Harvey Wallbanger.
11. Have you ever made a prank call? When we started WTIT we did it a lot. By 1968 we stopped and started real comedy.
12. Have you ever gotten a tattoo? Nope.
13. Have you ever had a massage? Not that either.
14. Have you ever locked your keys in the car? So many times I always carry an extra set. Once a year it saves me.
15. Have you ever ridden a horse? Of course.
16. Have you ever been to the circus? Yes. It was not the greatest show on Earth. For the animals I mean. I felt like that as a kid.
17. Have you ever been to Europe? England in the 70s.
18. Have you ever built a fire? Ha. Last night we had one. We have them all the time. But our new place (It switched. We’ll be in Rockville next week. The home of Gene Pitney. And soon “The Rocking Rockville Studio” of WTIT.
19. Have you ever been skydiving? No interest.
20. Have you ever bought something at a garage sale? Of course.
21. Have you ever walked in on someone having sex? Yes. It is always a great time.
22. Have you ever faked an injury to get out of something? I don’t recall it.
23. Have you ever been to a nude beach? Yes.
24. Have you ever received a speeding ticket? Yes.
25. Have you ever run a marathon? It felt like one today.
We decided The Windsor place was too small. We saw a place that had a ballroom and an idiot as a landlord. “We don’t believe in garbage disposals. We do compost.” He was compost. The apartment that’s porch overlooked the cemetery was special. The guy who told me that the downstairs tenant did the lawn and snow. But shortly he was pitching for us to rent the downstairs. A house we looked at had possibilities until we were told we had to mow the 3 acre lawn. He also said within two years he was tearing down the house for apartments. Wow. We saw a place the called a dining room a bedroom because they stuck a temporary closet in the corner. I was made to walk almost a mile at one huge complex. We hated those. We had to pay separate fees for the pool & gym that we’d never use. Next. Then we found a six-room place with new appliances, the washer & dryer in the kitchen with heat and hot water included. We will save at least 50% off our current situation. We will return. Same time. Same blog.
1) In this song, Harry sings, “We don’t talk enough, we should open up before it’s all too much.” When you have something serious on your mind, who do you share it with? As with most things in life, it depends on who I have the problem with. Before he passed, my dad was the one that I would tell relationship problems or work stuff or friends shit. Now it’s my sister or my wife and usually the latter. Kathy is a great listener and fairly objective if it’s not our own problem. But we still see a marriage councilor, which is down to once a month. This dude helped save our marriage. Now he’s seeing Kathy also privately from issues from her upbringing. She doesn’t trust easily so the job he did with us allows her to be comfortable confiding in him.
good at seeing both sides of an argument? Yes. In fact you might remember the story of the breakup I had with my high school girlfriend Sally. I hitchhiked from Boston to Burlington VT to spend the weekend with her. After a 5 hour ride I get to her place and she states the “Let’s talk” routine. In a nutshell she told me that “God” didn’t want us together. Now I’m an athiest that still calls himself agnostic. I was then at 17 as well. I asked her how she knew this. It was a long and complicated story that as you can well believe, it made ZERO sense. She had asked not that long before if I’d raqise our kids Christen. I stated that my dad was an atheist and I was raised Catholic and it all worked out. “But you aren’t Catholic anymore!”, she exclaimed. “‘Cause I got smart,” I replied. This did not help my case, my argument or the relationship.
was selling ads for a Hartford radio station. One account insisted that I DJ his bar on Friday nights. Now since it was a comedy club, I basically warmed the crowd up for the jokers and after the show I played dance music. As a club DJ you are always hit on by women. Now at this point in my life not only was I single, but I welcomed the shot of meeting women as a DJ again. (My last go round was in the 70s.) I had this woman come in the DJ booth on new Years Eve. Everyone had dates (naturally) and the woman stopped in to request a song. I started kissing her. After 10 minutes she said she should get back to her date. I agreed so IF she gave me her number. She was 21. I had recently turned 40. On our first date she stated, “I know that you are older than I. But I need to know how much older.” I asked “Why?” She explained that her dad was 39 and if I was his age, she’d see it as a problem. So I asked his age, she explained, “39”. I’m thinking, “Holy shit!” but I say, “He’s nowhere near my age,” I stated to her delight. We dated some six months. So yes, age is relative…
1) The Beatles recorded this after they had taken a three-month hiatus from working together as a band. Do you find you’re sharp after taking time off? Or does it take you a while to get back into the swing of things in your day-to-day life? It takes me a while to get into the “swing of things” as you can see from this lame fucking response. Although since I have not worked a day since breaking my neck, I may not be the right person to ask.
chapters, it was brillant.
4) Paul recalls what fun it was to dress up in Edwardian-era costumes for the album cover. When did you last attend a costume party? What did you wear? I’m a Klingon.
Is this album in your collection? I have the American vinyl. I have the English vinal. I have the 2009 remastered edition. This was the best album of all time.
1) In the video for this song, the Beach Boys dive into the pool with all their clothes on. Have you ever ended up in the water while fully clothed? If yes, were you pushed? I don’t remember that happening. I could tell some stories about skinny dipping, but you didn’t ask about that.
group’s legendary and unique sound came from a incident of bad parenting. Brian’s father hit him so hard with a wooden plank that he is deaf in his right ear. Which of your senses is sharpest — sight, hearing, smell or taste? I guess hearing. I’ve never had a good sense of smell – which has served me well. So many times someone has said, “Can you smell that? It’s disgusting!” I’d reply I couldn’t smell it. They’d inevitably say, try harder. I’d say, “Why would I do that? It’s you that’s got to deal with it.” As far as vision, I need reading glasses. It happened almost to the day of my 40th birthday. Most folks say they were 40 when they started needing cheaters. I cannot believe that it was 25 years ago. How did I become 65? People think I’m goofing them when I tell my age. Flattering, yes. But realistic, nah. I am 65 and I need to own it.
4) Brian’s brother Dennis was the cutest member of the group, and also the only one who could surf. Have you been to the beach yet this summer? Nope. Kathy hates the beach and it’s never been important to me. I prefer pools. I hope our apartment has a pool!
promotional materials refer to the group or their songs as “oldies.” Does it bother you to hear the songs, TV shows and movies of your youth described as “classics” or “oldies?” No. I just mind if they call ME an oldie.
looking it up, can you recite any of the Miranda Warning? Yes, but NYPD Blue is one of my favorite all time dramas. I just bought the series for $105. I’m watch me a lot.
1. Did you date someone from your school? I was a big dater. My record was four dates on one weekend. I was kind of the jerk I used to play in this space. It was easy for me to reprise the role. But the truth is that I was very single in 2006 when I started this blog. But between then and now I’ve been in two serious relationships. The current one (met in 2010) resulted in marriage. But nothing is simple.
station in your sophomore year is nerdy. I wonder what the people who came to all our parties whould think of us still recording.
read Harold Robbins “The Adventurers” which took place in South America. So I was learning all the swears. He called on me to get up and give a talk. (Not unusual. He did it everyday to someone.) So I asked the topic. He said “Maria.” I responded. Maria es un puta con tetas muy bonitas rojas y grande.” The class looked dumbfounded because they did not understand. The teacher was rolling on the floor laughing. When asked what I’d said he said, “Ask Bud after class…” I got an “A” for that. Oh what I said meant, “Maria is a whore with big fat red tits.”
DJs at WTIT for our 50th. Two of the four wrote back updating their lives. They were in it for the parties. Tape Radio was a means. Although nearly everyone of us did college radio.
1) This song is about a guy who’d rather nap than do his chores. Are there things you should be doing right now, instead of hanging around the blogosphere, answering these questions? You mean like that Saturday morning invite to watch a Roman orgy? You guys are way to important to skip.
4) This week’s featured artist, Leon Redbone, is a difficult man to nail down. Over the years he’s claimed to be born in Ontario, and Philadelphia, and even Cyprus. Tell us about a time you got caught in a fib. It may not be a fib. He was very young at the time. Maybe he just doesn’t remember.
longer available. What did you last post to your Facebook page? Yesterday I reported that Brian Williams was hired by CBS to do the Evening News. Foreshadowing? We will see…
that’s settled.
