what were you doing during the early years of the Carter administration?

[ulysses]

We know that Skittles was bringing babetude to the Air Force. I was playing soccer...



You?

[TransitJohn]

1. Kidnergarten through

3rd grade.

[St. Jarvitude]

2. Living out my last years in a previous life.

I dunno :shrug:

[name not needed]

3. I was an unfertilized egg.

[Guaranteed]

4. Swimming around in my dad's daddy bag. nt

[Droopy]

5. I was 4 and hanging out in my parent's apartment in Germany

Dad got out of the Army in '77 and we mived back to beautiful Miamisburg, Ohio where I shortly started going to a private Christian school. That lasted for 2 years and in the process my parents moved down the road to Moraine, Ohio, where I made some friends for the first time in my life.

[212demop]

6. taking tap classes at Carnegie hall for $5 a pop. I LOVED it.

I was my teacher's favorite.

For the first and last time.

[Gothic Sponge]

7. I was in 3rd, or 4th grade.

[ablbodyed]

8. Choaking the chicken>>>>

about 4 times a day.

[Bluzmann57]

9. Making a baby

the fact we were both too young to properly raise a child never occured to us. 1976 was also the first presidential election I ever voted in. Just turned 19 about a week before the election.

[Left Is Write]

10. Going to school, being a kid. Entering my teens.

I was ten when Jimmy Carter was elected. I voted for him in our school's mock election.

Beginning of Carter era:



End of Carter era:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

24. Nice outfit on the older gentleman!

He reminds me of my grandfather back then! I think I may have had the same style of very pink pants that you were wearing!

I was nine years old and no doubt playing with my E-Z Bake Oven. I used to melt my brothers plastic toys in it. :evilgrin:

[Left Is Write]

48. That was my grampa.

I'm not exactly sure when the picture was taken - it was either the summer of '75 or the summer of '76.

Grampa died in November of 1977. He was a wonderful man.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

52. I thought it may have been

There's a certain look of pride mixed with love that grandparents have when posing with their grandbabies.

His style was so like my grandfather's it amazing. It may just be the era mixed with the grandfatherly appearance. I don't know.

I'm glad you have the fond memories of your grandpa to carry with you. I have the same. Mine died in October of 1979. He, too, was a wonderful man.

[fluffernutter]

26. in that 2nd pic, you look exactly like a friend i had as a kid.

her name was Kim. i know i have a picture of her from our class pic, if i find it, i will post it.

[CO Liberal]

11. I Spent Them Separated From My First Wife...

...and going through the mandatory 18-month waiting period to get a no-fault divorce in NJ. We were granted a divorce in May of 1979.

Professionally, I was working at Vydec, a company that made word processors. It later became Exxon Office Systems before it folded completely. Personal computers made word processors obsolete.

[catmandu57]

12. 77 was totally awsome

totally kick ass awsome, we had a dewmocrat on the presidency, after kicking repuke ass. I lived with my drunken buddy on a fifty dollar a month rathole, during January and Febuary and part of March,
It was a great bohemian time, party party party all the time.
Then I moved back home went to work and had a great mispent youth until St. Ronnie kicked us in the nads.

[clydefrand]

13. I was in my 9th or 10th year of my teaching career.

And yes, I remember the long lines at the service stations to get gasoline on odd numbered days or whatever!

And yes, I liked Carter very much and still admire him tremendously. Where have all the smart people gone?? Too bad we have some in this great country and what do we have in the WH?

[Skittles]

14. LOL

I was going to SAY I was protecting America from the free world! :D

[ulysses]

36. you're my inspiration.

:D

[DBoon]

15. Smoking dope in my dorm room

listening to this new music from someone named "Patti Smith"

Tom Hayden was running for senate. It was very exciting.

[bicentennial_baby]

16. Being an infant

and all the lovely things that go along with that.

[motely36]

17. I was in 5th Grade

[Fenris]

18. Not existing.

[Lady Effingbroke]

19. 1st thru 4th grade.

I remember helping paint all the fire hydrants in my neighborhood red white and blue for the Bicentennial.

For President Carter's inauguration, the teachers at my elementary school set up TVs in the gym and herded all of us kids in to sit cross legged on the floor and watch the ceremony. It seemed to last forever - I guess I didn't have any appreciation for politics at the age of 7!

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Just married

happy :) also finishing college.

[Dem_4_Life]

21. In '78 I was being created and born nt

[yardwork]

22. Junior and Senior in High School being a geek

[Philostopher]

44. I resemble that remark!

Worry about zits (too many), tits (not enough), and what a loser I was. Pretty much being the typical junior high girl of the times.

Don't recall if you're female, yardwork -- maybe you were worrying about guy stuff!

[Longgrain]

23. Just learning my ABCs

in the beginning, by the end I was learning long division.

[StrongbadTehAwesome]

25. floating around in the void, I guess

I wasn't even a gleam in my parents' eye yet. My mom graduated high school in '76, parents married in '79.

[salin]

27. Riding a bike

and doing cheer leading (yikes).

[Endangered Specie]

28. Still an egg.

[trof]

29. Being a dad to a three year old

and flying the man's airplanes.

[SarahB]

30. Nursery school through 2nd grade.

[JVS]

31. Gestating

[medeak]

32. ditto

edited to say...I was gestating baby..not myself.

[fluffernutter]

33. cute pic, ulysses. i was knocking on the door of teenagedom.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

34. Last 3 years of... elementary? Is that the name? Then 1st year of HS (nt)

[bigwillq]

35. Pooping and crying all the times

I was just a little baby.

[Dzimbowicz]

37. I was in the Marine Corps

1974-1980.

[pres2032]

38. being that twinkle in my parents' eyes

[ElsewheresDaughter]

39. birthing babies

[MrSandman]

40. That was the 1st time I got to vote...

For Carter agin Reagan.

Before that it was the debauchery that accompanied the 18 y.o. drinking age.

[flamingyouth]

41. Third through sixth grades

I had American flag bell bottoms. I was tres chic indeed. :D

[ulysses]

42. hey, you have a birthday coming up soon, don't you?

:hi:

[flamingyouth]

43. I do - the 27th, in fact

:hi:

[auntAgonist]

45. 1977 got my license to drive semi trucks and hit the road

by 1978 I was trucking all of the continental USA and Canada ... Even visited Plains GA.

[Medium Baby Jesus]

46. LSD, PCP, THC..... n/t

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

47. In 1976, I was entering ninth grade

So I spent the Carter Administration in every student activity except cheerleading (not popular enough) and trying to get a date, usually without success. SIGH.

[ikojo]

49. No pics availabe but I was devouring everything I could

about Star Trek and Star Wars (I was 13 at the time).

[sundog]

50. Kindergarten

[skygazer]

51. Drugs and young men

My teenage years. :evilgrin:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

53. I was in graduate school, and then I went to Japan

for dissertation research.

[enigmatic]

54. Gazing lustfully at my Farrah Fawcett-Majors poster

and wondering what all the strange feeling I had below were in my 13 year old gonads; happily, I soon found out!

[Radical Activist]

55. Getting born

at least I was born during a Democratic administration.

[jdots]

56. Music Music and more Music

During the John Quincy Adams years i invented the whale blubber breast implant.

[Renew Deal]

57. I was being breast fed

I eventually started to walk.

[leftofthedial]

58. chasing women

drinking beer

I had other priorities