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Memories of John Travolta

I am about to watch Wargames that I haven't seen in ages...I know it has  Ally Sheedy and Matthew Broderick in it and that I enjoyed the movie but the main thing I remember about it is that it was playing at  Water Tower Place Movie Theater where I worked at least a few years or so and one night I was working concessions John Travolta came to see that movie...it was the last movie of the night and I waited around for it to get out to meet him...I had a five page letter to him I kept in my locker cuz I figured if I ever ran into him it would be downtown somewhere and I  shook his hand and gave him the letter and he thanked me for the letter...his eyes sparkled when he smiled and he was very  nice. I used to have a scrapbook with pictures and articles about him and threw it out shortly after that. He could not have been any nicer and I thought that a strange reaction but it took meeting him in person and realizing I didn't really know him to get over the scrapbook  phase....I got most of that stuff from friends in h.s. who got those teeny bopper magazines and would give me the articles about him or pictures. I never bought any of those magazines myself...I remember my senior year in H.S. I had all theater classes at Whitney Young Magnet H.S. in the Access to Excellence Theater Program which it was the first year of that program when I was a senior... but had to have a fourth year of English  so I had creative writing and had done a term paper on him and kids in school thought I knew him cuz I knew so much about him from all those articles I read and stuff...prety funny...I even had a Vinny Barbarino poster on my wall from Welcome Back  Kotter I used to watch all the time...I remember going to see him in Carrie when I was too young to get in to see it...I went with a friend the same age as me and my sister almost a year younger than me less than a year by  four days...They both sheepishly went up to the box office to ask for a ticket and were refused by the box office attendant...I walked up acting confidently like I belonged there and was old enough and said that's OK they're with me...three please and we got in...ha ha....I always looked young for my age so it was the matter of fact way I asked for the ticket that worked...my acting skills ha ha....then again too young for Saturday Night Fever I went with a H.S. friend who was old enough to get in and she had a second I.D. for me but they didn't even ask to see it probably cuz I was with her. I remember other girls from our school tried to get in and wore lots of makeup and dressed fancy and everything and they didn't get in and were mad that I got in and they didn't...cuz I never dressed up just jeans and a Tshirt and always looked younger than I was...anyway...that movie makes me think of the time I met  John Travolta when he came to see it...I always knew I would meet him one day just didn't know when or how....ok rambling with memories off to watch the movie now...

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FEELS WEIRD TO ME THAT THE MEMORY IS NOT IN ALL CAPS THAT IS MUCH EASIER FOR ME TO SEE. I STARTED TO POST IT ON FACEBOOK BUT IT GREW INTO A NOVEL SO DECIDED TO SHARE IT HERE CUZ MEMORIES BRING UP OTHER MEMORIES WITH ME ANYWAY...I DIDN'T MENTION A GUY THAT WAS WITH HIM CAME OUT TO BUY PEANUT M AND MS THAT  HE MENTIONED JOHN WANTED AND WOULD BE DISAPPOINTED IF HE DIDN'T GET THEM CUZ I HAD ALREADY CLOSED OUT MY COUNTER...WE CLOSED DOWN FIFTEEN MINUTES AFTER THE LAST SHOW STARTED...I DIDN'T HAVE MY CASH DRAWER ANYMORE AND HE DIDN'T HAVE CHANGE SO I JUST GAVE HIM THE PEANUT MA ND MS...DIDN'T WANNA DISAPPOINT HIM...I LEFT THAT PART OUT OF THE STORY OF WHAT I REMEMBERED...ALSO AN USHER NAMED JOHNNY CAME BEHIND THE CANDY COUNTER AND TOLD ME JOHN TRAVOLTA WAS THERE CUZ ALL MY FRIENDS KNEW I WAS A BIG FAN THAT WORKED THERE AND I THOGHT HE WAS TEASING ME AND SAID CAN'T YOU SEE HOW BUSY I AM HERE STOP MESSING WITH ME AND HE SAID LOOK DOWN THE RAMP AND I DID AND SAW HIM....YIKES...HE WAS NOT MESSING WITH ME HE WAS BEING A GOOD FRIEND LETTING ME KNOW HE WAS THERE SO I COULD SEE HIM....SOME OF MY FRIENDS WHO WORKED THERE WAITED AROUND WITH ME  TO WATCH ME MEET HIM. THEY WERE ALL EXCITED FOR ME...HA HA OK THAT'S IT...OFF TO WATCH WARGAMES NOW...

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WAYS I MADE MONEY AS A KID AND OTHER CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

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JUST SHARING SOME TRUE LIFE CHILDHOOD MEMORIES JUST WRITTEN AS THEY CAME TO MIND IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER ...UNEDITED...UNABRIDGED...REMINISCING....

A COUPLE OF CHILDHOOD MEMORIES WITH THE MOMSTER

Author's Notes/Comments: 

TRUE STORIES...MEMORIES FROM CHILDHOOD...

ANOTHER FILM EXTRA MEMORY...DOGWATER

Author's Notes/Comments: 

NOT SURE WHAT MADE ME THINK OF DOGWATER...MAYBE FROM WRITING THAT OTHER MEMORY ABOUT FILM EXTRA WORK... 

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FRAGMENTS

Author's Notes/Comments: 

JUST FRAGMENTS OF SPORADIC THOUGHTS...TRUE LIFE STUFF I THINK ABOUT SOMETIMES...

ARE YOU PRONE TO LAUGH ATTACKS

Author's Notes/Comments: 

SOMETIMES LAUGH ATTACKS COME AT THE MOST INOPPORTUNE TIMES...ON A BUS SITTINIG ALONE IT HAS HAPPENED AND I JUST TRY NOT TO MAKE ANY EYE CONTACT...I FIGURE THEY ALL THINK I'M CRAZY OR SOMETHING....OH WELL...

ONCE IT HAPPENED DURING A PLAY AND MY FRIEND CAUGHT MY LAUGH ATTACK AND WE BOTH COULDN'T STOP AND I SAID I HEARD SOMEWHERE IF YOU CAN'T STOP LAUGHING LOOK UP AT THE CEILING  CUZ THE CEILING ISN'T FUNNY....SO WE TRIED THAT BUT IT DIDN'T WORK...THEN I NOTICED THE ACTORS LOOKING UP AT THE CEILING AND I WAS LIKE WE GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE FAST...SO WE RAN OUT OF THE THEATER...GOSH I THOUGHT OF A THIRD TIME BUT I FORGOT IT NOW...THE THEATER AND THE BUS WERE THE WORST FOR ME I THINK...OH YA...ONCE IN CHURCH...THESE KIDS WERE SEVERAL ROWS AHEAD OF US AND THEY WERE ACTING UP AND ALL OF A SUDDEN ONE OF THE PARENTS GAVE THEM A SMACK ONE FROM THE FRONT AND ONE FROM BEHIND AND I JUST BUST OUT LAUGHING DURING A QUIET TIME DURING THE MASS AND I RAN OUT OF THE CHURCH....THAT WAS ANOTHER DOOZY...IT WAS UNEXPECTED AND LIKE WATCHING A SLAPSTICK COMEDY...A COUPLE OF SLAPS NO STICKS...HA HA

 

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A COUPLE OF CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I HOPE YOU FIND THESE MEMORIES AMUSING. I AM HAVING A LAUGH ATTACK AT THE MOMENT. I FIND THEM VERY FUNNY...ALTHOUGH THEY WERE NOT FUNNY TO ME AT THE TIME...THEY WERE KINDA SCARY.