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What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Thread Started on Feb 8, 2010, 2:26pm »
Reflecting on my rather unkind post on the EC blizzard thread, re the "Are you boasting or complaining" question. I posted the following on an old aeroplane forum and received a surprising number, and variety, of replies.

What did you do on your 21st birthday
Having to make reference to my logbooks, I hit on this page for June 1953. My 21st birthday occurred on 18th June 1953, the last three entries on the page refer. You can see I had an interesting month, which continues for another 6 entries.

For those unfamiliar with some terminology
P.I. s were Practice Interceptions
Whitecat was the callsign of G(round) (Control) I(Interception), the ground radar which led us to our targets.
Rats were dummy low level attacks.

Also we did a flypast round a few stations in the Canal Zone for the Queens Coronation

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Re: What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Reply #1 on Feb 8, 2010, 2:49pm »
That logbook is museum-worthy, Mossie. I am impressed by your penmanship.
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Re: What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Reply #2 on Feb 8, 2010, 3:44pm »
Celebrated getting my PA pharmacist's license that day! Now I could make the big money as a registered pharmacist, all of $125.00 a week for 40 hours! Hey that was big money in 1959!
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Re: What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Reply #3 on Feb 8, 2010, 7:11pm »
Miine had something to do with 21 shots of a dreaded Kamikaze (some completely disgusting alcoholic concotion), and a losing game of quarters with the College of Charleston soccer team. Actually - from what I can recall it was really fun!
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Re: What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Reply #4 on Feb 8, 2010, 8:39pm »

Didn't do very much. It was 3 days before my graduation from college and 8 days before my wedding. Really poor planning as I still get combination gifts.
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« Reply #5 on Feb 8, 2010, 11:22pm »
Hmmm.....I honestly can't remember my 21st birthday. Hey......maybe I'm still 20 !!!
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Re: What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Reply #6 on Feb 9, 2010, 2:22am »
: I was a student midwife at the time, in a very hierarchical system, where matron was GOD!

The matron didn't see why I needed the day off and put me on a split late shift, starting at 7.30am finishing at 9pm, because I had the audacity to ask for the day off!

So after my shift I went out to a club, with my boyfreind of the time in orange hot pants and danced till dawn. Then appeared on duty at 7.30am again with the most terrible hangover..........couln't do it today! I turn into a pumpkin at midnight! LOL!

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Re: What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Reply #7 on Feb 9, 2010, 2:54am »
Denise - That day you reported for work with the terrible hangover was the very same day I immigrated to Israel.
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Re: What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Reply #8 on Feb 9, 2010, 7:10am »
I am so impressed that all of you remember the day so vividly!!! I was enjoying morning sickness with my first baby at the time, so my 21st birthday was a blur....
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Re: What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Reply #9 on Feb 9, 2010, 11:00am »
I was a student in Paris. I took myself to the grand opening of the Musée d'Orsay. I always thought it very kind of the French gov't to celebrate my 21st in such a grand fashion. I then headed across the Tuileries for a chocolate at Angelina's. By then my friends were out of class. My friendsand I had tickets to see a show at the Opera Garnier with her parents who were in town from CA. After the show we were joined by more at a restaurant along the quais in the 5th, with a mille feuille for dessert.
The post-dinner party was a drunken blur and we end up being 2 dozen youth from across the globe sleeping on the floor in someone's chambre de bonne. The alcohol made me snore so loudly that I woke myself up. "Who's snoring?" I shouted. 20 or so heads popped up from sleeping bags, looking like worms coming to feed and shouted, "Its you, you moron. Now shut the F up and let us get some sleep!"

After the dinner (
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« Reply #10 on Feb 9, 2010, 11:14am »
That was quite a celebration you had, Phread !
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Re: What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Reply #11 on Feb 9, 2010, 11:54am »
Wow...what a fun thread! Mossie, I too am impressed with your penmenship. I'm actually impressed with you all for remembering.

My 21st birthday was celebrated with a bunch of friends in a Mexican restaurant. It ended up with me losing my shoes (permanently...and they were good shoes!) as well as threatening a bartender with an umbrella. I am not proud of this . I vaguely remember my girlfriend's husband leaning over me at about 6am and whispering to his wife, "I think she's dead!".

Ah, the good old days.
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Re: What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Reply #12 on Feb 9, 2010, 2:33pm »
How on earth did you lose your shoes, Happy
Boy, were you a wild one !
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« Reply #13 on Feb 9, 2010, 2:44pm »
Now Shoesy! If I knew how I'd lost my shoes, I'd have retrieved them
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Re: What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Reply #14 on Feb 9, 2010, 2:55pm »
I can't remember anything about that whole year!! Uh oh!!!

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« Reply #15 on Feb 9, 2010, 4:02pm »
I just realized that my 21st birthday took place 3 days after the Kent State University shootings in 1970. I was a student at the time, and there was unrest in many universities across the nation.
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Re: What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Reply #16 on Feb 9, 2010, 4:30pm »

Feb 9, 2010, 2:54am, Shoesy wrote:
Denise - That day you reported for work with the terrible hangover was the very same day I immigrated to Israel.

21st March 1971? first day of spring!
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Re: What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Reply #17 on Feb 9, 2010, 5:09pm »
to find what occurred on dates and what day your birthday was, go to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966

open then change year
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Re: What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Reply #18 on Feb 9, 2010, 5:17pm »
On my 21st birthday, I took my then two year old son, trick or treating.

So it was not until November 5th that I actually celebrated.

Dinner and Champagne at Villa Marina (seafood) at Balboa Island, CA marina.

I did have other things to celebrate that year, my husband home safe from Vietnam and finally able to start college.
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Re: What did you do on your 21st birthday
« Reply #19 on Feb 9, 2010, 6:02pm »
Katherine - 21 Kamikazes? Are you sure? Maybe after the first few you lost count. I drank 10 once and it darn near killed me.

Denise - got any pictures of the orange hot pants? That's something we'd all like to see.

And Phread - coolest birthday ever! Lucky girl.

Back when I was near that age, the "legal" age was 18, so that's the birthday I remember. I have no idea what I did for my 21st. But I plan to spend my 50th (or at least part of the summer before my 50th) in Paris!

Joy
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