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PAINFULLY ACCURATE OBSERVATIONS
If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in-law.” – Edgar Howe
“Old age comes at a bad time.” – San Banducci
“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard
there is nothing you can do about it.” – Golda Meir
“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never
happened. – Mark Twain
“I’m at that age where my back goes out more than I do.” – Phyllis Diller
“Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.” – George Burns
“First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to
pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.” – Leo
Rosenberg
“You spend 90 percent of your adult life hoping for a long rest and
the last 10 percent trying to convince the Lord that you’re actually
not that tired.” – Robert Brault
“Old people shouldn’t eat health foods. They need all the
preservatives they can get.” – Robert Orben
“The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being
asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them
down.” – T.S. Elliot
“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us… at age 40, we
don’t care what they think of us… at age 60, we discover they haven’t
been thinking of us at all.” – Ann Landers
“The important thing to remember is that I’m probably going to
forget.” – Unknown
“It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to
everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.” –
Andy Rooney
“The older I get, the better I used to be.” – Lee Trevino
“I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as
they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their
final exam.”- George Carlin
“Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice
cream to reach your hips.” – John Wagnerf
“Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old, it’s the knowledge that he’s
married to a grandmother that does.” – J. Norman Collie
“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a
sure sign you’re getting old.” – Mark Twain
“You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or
leaks.” – Joel Plaskett
“There’s one advantage to being 102, there’s no peer pressure.” –
Dennis Wolfberg
“Looking fifty is great—if you’re sixty.” – Joan Rivers
“At my age ‘getting lucky’ means walking into a room and remembering
what I came in for.” – Unknown “
Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated
because there are fewer articles to read.” – George Burns “
“Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.” – Anonymous
Our thanks to Bob Hogg who lifted this from another class website.
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Are You Aware...
of any of our Arthur Hill teachers who are still be living in the Saginaw area? It might be fun to invite any of them to our next reunion. Please contact Karen Hoerauf with any living teachers' names.
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Welcome to two New Pages for Our Enjoyment...
Today, we are offering two new pages for you to enjoy.
A suggestion by Hap Myers has led us to offer "Pets, Past & Present". Please feel free to post photos and/or stories of your favorite animal friends. Access this page under Message Forum.
In addition, feel free to check out and add photos and brags about your grandchildren and/or other family members on our "Best and Brightest" brag page. Access this page, also, through Message Forum.
You may add to these pages directly. Enjoy!
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Arthur Hill High School 65
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My Most Embarrassing High School Moment
I was a Co-Op student, and as a class project we had to do a product demonstration. I decided to use something called an emersion heater. It was just a cheap “Made in Japan” (the equivalent of made in China today) coiled wire with a plastic handle and an electric cord. You plugged it in, put it in a cup of water, and shortly it would boil the water. On the day of the demonstration, I skillfully placed a cup of water on top of the glass display case, plugged the heater in, and set it in the cup of water, all the while praising the attributes of my product. I then lifted the heater out of the water, and as I was saying: “You can see just how hot it gets...” the radiant red coil began to melt in my hand. A piece of it dropped on the glass display case, and cracked the thick glass, bringing my demonstration to a climatic and sudden end.
I was so dumbfounded, I just stood there staring at the thing. Mr. Hartman (whom everyone called "The Goblin"), jumped out of his seat, ran to where I was, and unplugged it. My classmates howled with laughter, I turned as red as the heater, and the goblin’s face was as white as...well, a goblin.
A couple of decades later I was in Dallas, TX, managing a mortgage office. The prospective mortgagee I was interviewing happened to be a former AHHS Co-Op student, about eight years my junior. When I told him my demonstration story, his eyes got big, and pointing at me like I was a movie star said: “OH MY GOD, YOU’RE THE ONE!” He then went on to tell me that Hartman used my experience as a teaching example (probably until the day he retired) on becoming totally familiar with your product before demonstrating it. Let me tell you, after hearing that, I forever empathized with Vinko Bogataj, the hapless Yugoslavian skier, whose spectacular wipeout (The Agony of Defeat) was shown week after week on the opening credits of the Wide World of Sports. Some things we just never live down.