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Sullivan Show. For the entire day I thought the discussion surrounded insects.
I experienced the oil embargo first hand. Remember when President Nixon declared that the winter months would also operate under daylight saving time? I stood in the dark during those winter months waiting and hoping for the bus to break down.
But like any gathering the people made my bus stop more than a peninsula surrounded by the headwaters of three onelane roads. A sort of Three Rivers Stadium of bus stops.
There was Pete, who taught us all the proper techniques of vandalism.
And Carl, who was the first contemporary to drive to school, making sure to cruise the stop just before the bus arrived, thereby guaranteeing him a large, captive audience to stand in awe.
I watched Annette lug her cello on and off the bus every day while her sister had enough sense to play the violin, more manageable cargo.
I remember Ralph, who earned his football letter jacket as a placekicker. Ralph could boot the ball 50 yards on kickoffs and in practice but shanked field goal tries longer than 17 yards. In later years, he was arrested on breaking and entering charges. I guess his junior-year conversion to be a devout Catholic wore off.
And there was Ralph’s accomplice, Tom, who was the center of our
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