Our Life & Our World

Back Then

A fall evening, and I had been busy, trying to get all my chores, done, in order to appease Mom’s thinking, so she would give me my allowance and take me to the skating rink. Back in those days, the theater or skating rink, was about the only places you went on the weekends, to meet other people your age. Some were lucky enough to have cars, but most relied on mom or dad for transportation. So, here it was Friday evening, and time to go out and prowl for new bait, waiting to be scarfed up by us wanton, young ladies. Maybe, it was the other way, with the guys, they may have been thinking the same thing . Either way it was a way of life, and most girls that age, thought themselves to be undesirable, if they didn’t snag someone, by the time they were 17 or 18 years of age.

This particular Friday, night was to be a time, that I wasn’t ready for and would be the beginning, of a relationship, I would eventually give up on.