I think I was the first "paid" manager for the high school track team. I worked in practices and local meets for nothing. Then for big meets the coach insisted on paying me a quarter to guard the locker room. Can't figure out why. The stench would kill anyone not used to it. These lockers were wire baskets, so the whole place was pungent.
Same type uniforms, same way to store 'em ;-) Those were the days. Cub ----- Original Message ----- From: "tflan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 5:22 PM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: The Sun is Shinning > I meant to rsvp to this but dumped it in my haste. Regarding "gym." Did > youse guys do what we did with our gym clothes? We had gym pants - blue > shorts with white stripes, white socks, a jock that never fit - way too big. > I couldn't ever figure out what the hell it was for; come to think of it, we > knew what condoms were . . . rubbers! We had one. We all tried it on. We > couldn't seem to figure out how to make it stay on. What was the point? Also > a pair of sneakers - Red Ball, Keds, Converse, with some some guy, Chuck > somethings, name, and a towel. We carried the whole shebang by stuffing the > socks in one shoe, the jock in another, wrapped the shorts around the > shoes/jock/socks, and wrapped all with the towel. Then, the package was > stored in lockers until gym 2 days later. I'll tell ya, them lockers were > pungent. > > Food storage? We had an ice box for summer, and a box on the windowsill for > winter.I don't recall any problems with either. > > Work? Hell, we were required to work. Pick tobacco, strawberries, tomatoes, > caddying, shining shoes in saloons in the summer. Winters shovelling snow, > scraping ice, hauling coal and kerosene. Work for a 10, 11, 12 year old? > Hell no. Them was "chores." > > I could go on but I agree with Cub. Life was easier/simpler then. Nobody > interfered but parents, and then they interfered with a swat on the ass. Did > it hurt? Yep. Did it matter in the long term? Nope. It did a lot of us a > hell of a lot of good, I think. > > TFlan
