I graduated from high School in 1977 and went to Arlington and stayed
with my oldest sister and her late husband for that Summer, I worked
nights at a place called Meritex Plastics on Randoll Mill Rd making A
framed little hollow bars for integrated circuit chips it was 19.5
inches long and made from virgin poly vinyl chloride plastic which just
so happens to have natural anti static properties and made after taxes
$115.00 a week.
But I got me a $29.95 Season to Six Flags over Texas, I bet I
spent 4 out of 5 days there at the park. I knew it backwards and
forwards, quickest route to anything I knew shortcuts even through
employee only areas. I got away with it because I have always had the
ability to fool people into thinking I known what I am doing. I could be
at entry gate to the shock-wave Roller-coaster which opened that season
in 4 minutes or so, I knew where best food for money was and to know
some the regular worker's during the week it wasn't as crowded as
weekends. Now you may ask why I am telling all of this? For one thing I
can remember it in great detail and because I would go through the
"Spelunker's Cave" there to cool down and it was highly air-conditioned.
To ride 4 to 5 times back to back and that helped you tolerate that
nasty old East Texas Humidity which I never did like. I didn't think it
was like a real cave as I knew it for what it was, but at 17 back then I
was probably smarter than kids today in knowing al little bit about a
lot of stuff.
My short term is going which is irritating as hell and do a whole lot of
repeating or so they say.
I would say something about cannabis or hemp but you all know and my
views on that have drastically changed! LOL.
Thanks for evoking a memory of fun times at age 17.
Cavers are the best!
Bill
On 5/13/2022 8:38 PM, Carol W Russell wrote:
This will set back caving, or at least caving as conceived of by the
general public, about 1,000 years...
On Fri, May 13, 2022, 4:16 AM Jerry wrote:
Classic Six Flags Over Texas Ride Returns With Modern Updates
Pirates of Speelunker Cave will be open to the general public
this Saturday
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/six-flags-over-texas-debuts-new-pirate-cave-ride/2966167/
Jerry Atkinson.
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