Its January 1978, do you remember where you were?

[madinmaryland]

We were in the midst of one hell of a blizzard in Ohio (actually there were two) . I was out of school for 14 days during the month. Not much you can do when its 20 below outside. Freaken cold. 15 foot high snow drifts.

[Bouncy Ball]

1. I was a kid, so I have no freaking idea.

I was going to school, hanging out, um, being a kid....

[madinmaryland]

2. i was in school too, but working at the

grocery store. having to carry out groceries. it was freakin cold. didnt get any freakin tips

[NYC]

16. I was an adult, and I have no idea.

It couldn't have been anything important.

[roguevalley]

3. I was teaching first grade in Sterling, Alaska. First year I taught.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. Cambodia. Walking through piles of dead bodies every day

at least as high as your snowdrifts, most of them manned with angry 14-16 year olds fucked up on beer and dope, but smart enough not to fuck with a platoon of US Marines.

They usually took off before we were even in visual with them, it was a game we played.

[russian33]

5. Wasn't born till Sept. of 1978

:)

[Biased Liberal Media]

22. LOL! I wasn't even born til October 1978

[NightTrain]

6. Was that the month of the Blizzard of '78?

I devoted a full chapter of my autobiographical novel, MEMOIRS OF A MALCONTENT, to that goddamned storm! :scared:

[madinmaryland]

7. Yes.

Can i find that in my local library?

[NightTrain]

8. No, you won't find my novel in your local library. It's unpublished.

Sorry, should've mentioned that. :eyes:

[madinmaryland]

9. can you let me know what it's about.

like to read off-market books. any info?

[NightTrain]

11. It's a slightly fictionalized account of my first 15 years on this planet.

I wrote MEMOIRS OF A MALCONTENT in 1992-93, not so much to get published but to work some angst out of my system. Over the next half-decade, I wrote three more aubiographical novels, carrying my "fictional" self through age 27. I've no plans to write any more disguised autiobgraphy.

[madinmaryland]

14. Would you be able to share any of your work with

us readers here?

[NightTrain]

21. Well, the problem is....

...those novels all predate my first computer. I wrote them on an electric typewriter. As such, the only way for me to share any of that material with y'all would be to retype it. Not only would that require a lot of work on my part, it also would require me to re-experience a plethora of horrible memories. I didn't have the happiest childhood, you see.

So, if I were you, I wouldn't count on seeing any of my autobiographical fiction posted here any time soon. Sorry.... :shrug:

[consciousobjector]

10. I'll never forget the blizzard of '78

I was living in a big green rented house with 3 other people and about 10 cats. There was a big window with cardboard in it because the landloard hadn't replaced the glass that had been broken several months before! Brrrr! But the worst part was that the 7/11 down the street (the only place we could get to by walking since all the cars were frozen half way up their tires with ice) ran out of kitty litter...ugh!

[madinmaryland]

12. ooh, that's nasty.

sorry.

[T Town Jake]

13. Collecting KISS cards...

...and enduring the sounds of the Bee Gees echoing down the hall from my sister's bedroom for hours on end.

That was one long, cold winter, as I recall. The snow drifts where I was at the time seemed to literally bury houses, or come damn close. And all they seemed to play on the tube was endless re-runs of "The Bob Newhart Show".

[madinmaryland]

17. Thiss?

[T Town Jake]

20. LOL...yep! Or something...

...damn close quite similar to it...

[maveric]

15. Working hotels in Miami

As a room service waiter at the then new, Omni International Hotel.
Best job a 22 yr old kid could ever have.

[auntAgonist]

18. Stranded at home ....

blizzard in Ontario Canada. Had been married for a whole 3 months at that point.

[Birthmark]

19. I was getting out of the Army

Oddly enough, I was in Maryland.

[jeff30997]

23. Yes. Disco Stu remembers.

[DivinBreuvage]

24. I remember that. I remember my little brother crying in the back yard

because his stunty little legs couldn't handle the snow.

[JohnnyRingo]

25. I was here in Ohio.....I remember

Thank goodness I was young and vital.
I don't think I can shovel snow like that anymore.

[bobthedrummer]

26. Escanaba, Michigan.

[Solon]

Well at the end of the month, last day in fact...

I was BORN!!!!!

[WCGreen]

27. Oh yea, I remeber the Blizards....

Was my first winter at Ohio State.......

[Kire]

28. my brother was born that month

so that made me 3, apparently I gave him a doll as a gift

[housewolf]

29. Standing in line

during a winter rainstorm in LA (the kind that caused the mudslide this week)

waiting to buy tickets to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"