Originally Posted By: Ember - PG Music
Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
I didn't like the marching band and would miss the games so I was "punished" by being thrown out of the marching band..... gee shucks....!

I was going to a summer camp where the councilors would play acoustic guitars and sing Bob Dylan songs and other folk songs and I determined that the guitar was my real calling. So I asked my mom for a .22 rifle for my 14th birthday. I really wanted a rifle..... but my mom thought the rifle was a bit too dangerous and she told me no rifle. So, I selected the next thing on my wish list.......a guitar. So at 14 I got my first guitar.

Wow, a rifle or a guitar ... crazy! I can't imagine ever asking my parents for a gun. I had a hard enough time with asking for a guitar! grin I had to cut so many lawns in order to pay for half of it.

That sucks you got kicked out of the marching band, but I suppose if you didn't like it it's not too much of a loss? Hopefully you weren't too disappointed!


Nahhhh... getting kicked out of the marching band..... an answered prayer. My mom was mad.... but I just told her I forget there were games that were mandatory.... no big loss. I still played in the band and the orchestra in school..... just not permitted the "privilege" of dressing in gold and black, wearing a goofy hat, and standing on a football field sideline freezing my butt off....

Regarding the rifle.... my mom never did buy one for me... I had to wait until I was 18 and in the USMC stationed in NC where I could walk into a gun store and fill out some paperwork and walk out with a cool new rifle. Nothing like the hoops you have to jump through in gun hating NJ where I was born and raised. I bought a Black Star Nylon 66 with chromed parts and a scope. Still have that same rifle.

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