As had come up in a moronic discussion of the space program, nobody wants to be Harrison Schmidt.
You know you are bouncing around with your boys on a Friday night hitting all of your favorite gin mills. But one of the guys brought along this new guy from work and he is trying to fit in. You hit one of your locals and there is a superficially attractive yet psychotic babe that you should really stay away from if you know what's good for you. So the conversation goes like this:
"Hey what about this broad?"
"You might want to give that a Pass-a-dena. You don't want to be Harrison Schmidt."
"Who the fuck is Harrison Schmidt?"
"He's the twelfth guy to land on the moon."
"Oh."
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James Jones wrote a whole long novel about Harrison Schmidt, Some Came Running. To make a long story short his main character in that book, Dave Hirsh, ends up with Ginnie, the town mattress, because he figures that that'll solve his getting laid problem, except...except he actually goes and marries her which immediately makes her want to be "respectable" and she stops spreading for him. A genyouwine tragedy.
You hit one of your locals and there is a superficially attractive yet psychotic babe that you should really stay away from if you know what's good for you.
But the problem is, when you're young, dumb and full of...well you know the rest...its hard to do the right thing and stay away.
I dated a girl that honestly had an errie resemblence to Glenn Close although it wasn't errie at the time because Fatal Attraction wouldn't come out for 2 years. Then I saw the movie and actually bolted from the theater when she said "I won't be ignored".
I still haven't seen the whole thing. Seen Deliverance but not that one.
I am sure we all have stories from our knocking-around days that would raise the hair on your scalp.
Well that chick was the only one who convinced me of the necessity of the 2nd Amendement. A lot of the others were just weird. Then there was my first girlfriend in college who I think had a 29 day menstrual cycle.
Oh Troop, saw your post on my lack of blogging. I have been on a hiatus but am back and posting again.
Good stuff Hoosier. You don't want to leave all your good stuff on someone else's site.
I will drop in some comments.
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