A day in the life part 8- Mr. Peabody and the way back machine

I am just curious how many people will be able to understand the reference to Mr. Peabody and the way back machine. Oh, how much better was TV when I was a kid. When I was a child the television was my good friend. It stayed up late with me and kept me company on a Saturday morning. People use Microsoft Office to manage their schedules but I kept everything in my life tracked around the television schedule. Monday nights was the A-Team. Thursday nights was St. Elsewhere. Saturday morning was Loony Tunes, Space 1999, and Star Trek. During the week it was the Rocky and Bullwinkle, Banana Splits and the Japanese animation hour with Robotech and Star Blazers. There are plenty of these types of shows on TV today so what is the difference? TV was just a lot more innocent then. There was not as much pushing of the boundaries as there are today. Less sex, less violence depicted, and less foul language. Growing up, there were only a few kids that shared my love of sci-fi television. Only a geek or a nerd would watch those shows. My friend Brian was the one who would like the same kind of shows I did when I was in high school. Sometimes we would call each other and watch the shows from our own houses. One thing I did not watch much of as a kid was sports. I usually found those to be boring. Now as an adult I like them more because I have an allegiance to certain teams. Being a kid was so much easier. There is a great web site called http://www.retrojunk.com that allows you to see scenes from all the great shows, commercials and other things that made being a kid great.

Thinking about the way back machine, there is one time when I which such a device actually existed. In my senior year of high school there was a girl I had a severe crush on, Sheri-Ann Nogueira, but another one of my friends did too. Let me just say I had a 4 year crush on her though I hardly said 4 words to her the 1st 3 years of school. In my senior year history class, Sherri sat on the other end of the room with the jocks and because they would talk in class my teacher moved her to a seat right behind mine. Within seconds I was talking to her too. My teacher stood up and said " Cormier you don't all year long and I move Sherri there and you start talking, like a fly to shit I tell you." That ended my talking to her. At the end of the school year I asked her to sign my yearbook, I was nervous even doing that like every other opportunity to talk to her. Anyway I asked her and she signed it saying she was glad we finally started being friends.That was a real lift.

I always thought I never had a chance in the world with her but I knew Mike had less of a chance then I did. To put into perspective just how much of an introvert I was, let me set up this scenario. Mike and I were on the telephone talking about Sherri and Mike had an idea. he would call her on the phone using three way calling and talk about me and then I would do the same thing to her and talk about Mike just to see what she would say about each of us. Mike put me on hold and called Sherri's phone and then linked me in so I could hear them. Mike and Sherri made small talk for a minute and then when Mike stared to talk about me, Sherri has this great idea-she'll use three way calling to call me so mike can talk to me about her and she can listen.. When i heard this i panicked and hung up. When you have 3 way calling and one party hangs up sometimes you may reconnect and sometimes you cant right away. About 10 seconds after I hung up the phone rang which meant Mike was trying to reconnect to me. When I said hello, instead of hearing Mike's voice I heard Sherri. I started to freak out, then I thought that maybe she and Mike set their 3 way call up but I never heard Mike. Sherri and I talked for about 15 minutes and it was very awkward for me, I was just a mess on the phone. That was the lest time I saw or heard from her in 20 years. With our high school reunion coming up, there is a list of a few students that the school has lost contact with and she is one of them. I have no idea where she lives or what she has been doing.
Oh how the way back machine would come in handy.