Special life experiences
Number24
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My idea for this thread is a celebration of life and the people in this forum. Her people can tell us about experiences they've had that are out of the ordinary in a positive way. I don't think I need to explain this any more, so I'll give some examples:
- One summer three whales lived in the fjord outside my living room window. My father and I went out in our little boat and the whales swam next to and under the boat. I could almost touch them.
- When I was a kid we needed to sharpen a worn out drill for the drilling machine. We rowed out to a small island and the old man living there took us to his smithy and forged it into shape. A lot like this:
not many people born after 1970 have experienced this
- When I was a conscript in the army we were up against the Royal Marine Commandoes and the SBS. That was exciting!
- One summer three whales lived in the fjord outside my living room window. My father and I went out in our little boat and the whales swam next to and under the boat. I could almost touch them.
- When I was a kid we needed to sharpen a worn out drill for the drilling machine. We rowed out to a small island and the old man living there took us to his smithy and forged it into shape. A lot like this:
not many people born after 1970 have experienced this
- When I was a conscript in the army we were up against the Royal Marine Commandoes and the SBS. That was exciting!
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Fantastic work to all those involved, this article tells the tale;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24964100
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I am a WASP. I grew up in a very WASP-y area and could count the Jewish people I knew on one hand. One of them, a classmate, invited me to her Bat Mitzvah in October 1977. The post-ceremony party was held at the same time that Game 6 of the 1977 World Series was being played between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Every 15 minutes or so, my best friend (huge Yankees fan) and I (huge Dodgers fan) would wander over to the bar area and sneak a peak at the game on television. Baseball aficionados will probably know that this was the game in which Reggie Jackson hit three home runs on three pitches -- one of the greatest and most famous baseball feats of all time -- to lead the Yankees to a 4-games-to-2 victory in the series, their first title since 1962.
Over the next 19 years, I attended a university with a much more diverse population, met and married a Jewish woman, and moved to New York. However, I had still only attended that single Bat Mitzvah back in 1977. Finally, in 1996, one of my wife's cousin's kids had his Bar Mitzvah, so I got to attend my second. As with 1977, it was in October, on the same day as Game 6 of the World Series. As with 1977, the Yankees held a 3-2 lead in games, needing only one more to win. As with 1977, the Yankees (the most successful baseball club by a mile) were in a long title drought -- 18 years this time. Best of all, the young man being celebrated was a crazy Yankees fan; in fact, his entire party was done in a Yankees theme. At one point, I pulled him aside and told him that his was only the second Bar/Bat Mitzvah I had ever been to, that the first one was on the same day as one of the most famous games in Yankee history, and that these coincidences could only mean that the Yankees were destined to win Game 6 on his big day. I can think of few other time where my words gave someone such joy -- his smile could have lit a city. Sure enough, the Yankees took care of business that night, setting them on a course of 4 titles in 5 years.
Sometimes fate is cool.