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On Feb 1, 10:21 am, "Eisboch" wrote:
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I think "liberal arts" is code for indoctrination...

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Naw. Back in Harry's day (and mine) one elected "liberal arts" as a
course of study when you were entering college but didn't have a
clue what
you wanted to do with your life.

It's meaning has changed over the years.

Eisboch

So, when your parents kicked you out and you didn't want to go to work?

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That was one motivation for some, I am sure.

I always envied the high school juniors and seniors who, with the
assistance of their "guidance consolers", had chosen a field of
future employment by the ninth grade.

I was too busy investigating other things at that age to decide.

Eisboch

About all I was investigating in the 9th grade was ways to work after
school and on weekends to save up enough $$$ for the mandatory driving
school lessons I could take in the 10th grade to get my license.

My father said he would fix me up a car, but that paying for the
lessons was my part of the deal.

There were limited ways for those under 16 to work legal jobs in
Connecticut in those days. I mowed a lot of lawns and shoveled a lot
of snow off sidewalks.

ditto.

I worked part time at a garage in Bethany. I didn't have a license at
first, the owner knew it, but didn't care.

He used to have me drive customers home who left their car there for
service and even had me drive into New Haven a couple of times to pick
up parts. 15-1/2 years old, no license. If my parents had known, I'd
have been dead meat. He used to do maintenance work for the CT state
police cars at the barracks up the street from the garage. I used to
drive the unmarked cruisers with 429 Cobra Jet police package engines
back and forth to and from the barracks and knew many of the state
troopers. Nobody ever questioned if I had a license. I know at least
one knew I didn't.

Eisboch


Bethany, eh? I know that barracks well. I dated a gal in Waterbury for
a while, and I used to slow waaaaaaaay down passing that barracks. In
those days, speeders lost licenses, even for the first offense.