Daryl Tucker

You know, Gary, I just had to stop worrying about what other people might think of me. Take a look at my picture here. I get some funny looks, but if they have a problem, it's theirs and not mine. Just do what makes you happy (as long as it's safe and not hurting anyone) and let everything else go. I believe one of the main things our generation has learned is that we all have worth as individuals and we should celebrate our unique differences. Variety is the spice of life as they say...

I'd forgotten how many VW's there were among us back in the day. I'm proud to say I had one for a while. It was gutless, but fun to drive. Mine was a 61 and didn't have a gas gauge. When you started running out of gas, you flipped a little lever down by the seat and you had a couple quarts in the reserve tank to get you to the next gas station. Our modern vehicles may have neat gadgets, but when they break they cost a fortune to fix. If we had a problem with our old VWs you could fix them for a couple of bucks and be back on the road. Here's another picture of mine with my dad leaning on the trunk and my sister Emily draped over it with a towel on her head. Is there no shame!

Kenneth Strong

I had the 72 Super Beatle I bought after high school.   It would go anywhere.  I remember buying it brand new for $2,000.   I loved that car but I think I ruined it by using it as a hunting and fishing vehicle.   Put on 200,000 miles on it in 4 years.     Even had a hitch on the back and pulled a boat with it.  Now that brought looks. 

        As Daryl said,  People give some strange looks and  I am sure they do not care for me but if they do not like it it is their loss and not mine.   I remember one day at a pickup that I had I started to leave and turned around to tell them to have a  great weekend and they were flipping me the bird.   I just said have a great weekend and left.  I know they did not know what to expect after that.  I never let it get to me.  I would bet they thought twice after that before doing something like that again to anyone.    My problem is after 30 years of knocking on doors in Springville and Mapleton I met so many people and now when I meet then I know them but do not remember names so I kind of try to avoid them so I do not make a fool of myself.   They probably think I am stuck up.  I just wish my mind worked as good now as it did in 2005.   

Linda Schardine

I agree with Kennth and Daryl.  

Gary it sounds to me like you need this site more than ever..It all boils down to how you feel about yourself.

Try being a women, no one listens to you most of the time except our girlfriends, everyone has their own lives and feelings and thoughts and it's up to you to make yourself happy and content not other people. 

Gary your part of the 69 class so buck up and loose the attitude......hey we all like ya!

Hey Daryl, my VW was a 61 too and I had the gas thing, I actually thought it was fun running out of gas and then just flipping over to the reserve then I knew I had to go scrape up some gas money.

That was then, it wouldn't be so fun now, I guess I'm spoiled.

Gary Averett

Linda,  attitude, really give it up.  Come on give that and whatever up, wow that means I would be getting old.  I do care about attitude.  That definds Springville.  It's about our growing up there,  someone better than the other.  Ok we're past that,(not really) but what about our grand kids.  Do we want them to grow up with that attitude.

Linda Schardine

do yur thing bud........

Shauna Bona (Leetham)

Hi Gary, there is always going to be people who look at you weird. Some people think that we are all suppose to be the same. Well some of us aren't. we may look different, think different, but we all love the same. Just try this for one day. Smile and say hello to everyone you see and see how many smiles come back. Some will look at you like your nuts, some will think am i suppose to know him, but there will be that one  person that you just plain made feel good that someone talked to them. Remember how you feel when your ignored, don't let it happen to anyone else. You get back in this world what you give out. If i see you in the store I will visit with you, and i would bet 99% of our classmates will talk to you. Remember we look different know so say hi to them and tell them who you are. No one is better than anyone else. I haven't seen anyone for a while and I'm starting to have withdrawls. Time for a party! You had better come Gary! 

I'm to tired to proof read so if this doesn't make sense,chuck it up to my age!!

David Lynn

I think you're right Gary. I guess we're the salt and pepper of the community now, it's not the main food but we give it flavor. Some don't like it spicy. I'm amazed when I go to Springville and to any store, even Walmart, and I don't know anybody. I think Daryl is the only one I've seen there. I don't think it's the same city we grew up in and they're a afraid of us old timers because the're the outsiders intruding on us. So I decided that if people have a problem with me they're either right and I can choose to change or not, or they are idots and it doesn't matter what they think. Either choice, I'm Popeye the Sailor and I am's what I am's.   Toot Toot.

Dennis Sorensen

Us older people need to learn something new every day...
Just to keep the grey matter tuned up. Where did "Piss Poor" come from? Interesting history.
They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot.
And then once it was full it was taken and sold to the tannery...
if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor".
But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot...
They "didn't have a pot to piss in" and were the lowest of the low.
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. 

Dennis Robertson

Hey thought it would be time for a few pictures. Had one of those great days Sunday after this last storm. The temp. was -8 degrees but it was beautiful. 

David Lynn

I see a werewolf on the horizion. Nice catch, the bird, the moon and the clouds. Those are beautiful Denny, if a guy can say that.

Charles (Chuck) Gividen

Hey Gary,

If you look for the bad in people you will find it.  If you look for the good in people you will find it.  People now days are on the move more than they ever have been before.  They do not seem to have time to say hi or stop and chat.  And maybe they were taught not to talk to strangers.  You are a stranger to most people in Springville, just as I would be in Mapleton, where I grew up.  The person(s) you tried to say hi to, do you know who they were, and do you know what kind of a day they were having?  Who knows, they may have just come from the hospital after visiting a loved one in intensive care, or they may have just lost their job, or maybe they were having a bad day and did not want to talk to you or to anybody else.  Or, maybe, when you said hello to that person(s) your voice or body language told them that they should ignore you and not talk to you.  Some people will read "bad" into a person no matter what, even when that person is the greatest and most friendly person in the world.  Don't judge everybody by the actions of one or two people.  I am positive that the actions of "one, two or even three" people DO NOT represent the attitudes of everybody else.  If we judged everybody by the actions of a few then we all would be in trouble.  I learned a lot being in law enforcement.  I had to take the bad with the good, and then dwell on the good because those were the people who were making a positive difference.  And you know something, I often would find myself looking for something good in that rotten person, and, you guessed it, I found out something good about them.  So, there you have it in a a "coconut shell" instead of in a "nutshell".

Hey Dennis, are you stil on that motorcycle taking all those pictures?  Ha, Ha.  Beautiful pictures.  I sure do like the seasons.  I like the snow, the spring when everything comes to life, the summer, when everything grows, the fall colors, and again the winter when all go to sleep.  Keep those pictures coming.

Hey you guys, I was unlucky to have a VW.  I had a 1956 Chevy Belaire.  I do remember that Paul Johnson's dad Frank, had a VW.  I was always jealous because he was one of the only ones who could drive up Maple Canyon in the winter without spinning out. 

Shauna Bona (Leetham)

Nice pictures Denny,they are beautiful and yes Dave guys can say that!!! Good to hear from you Chuck,love your positive words, must have learned them from your parents!!! Sorry to here about Ned larsen, Lynette's dad. He was always my bus driver and a good one. He was such a good man, good old Mapleton boy. It is so hard losing that generation. I think this means we are next, I wonder what they will say about us??? Have any ideas?????

Gary Averett

OK, Chuck, you got me, and you are right.  However the person who snubbed me, knows me.  Well I'm over it, and I do still love/like most all people, my old friends in or out of Springville.  Maybe it was me that was having the bad day.  Anyway if I try to go to Springville, the cops would stop me at the city limit and tell me to go back from where I came.   My intent was not ment to be personal to all,  but I did hope that, that one person may see it.

Daryl Tucker

Denny! Great photos, man! Maybe I'll have to buy some of your prints as an investment. Someday we'll be seeing some of your prints hanging between Ansel Adams and Dorthea Lange at the Art Museum.

Something caught my eye on one that looked like it could have been taken on a snow-covered golf course. Sure enough, guess who I found when I zoomed in? Yup, Dave just never quits...

David Lynn

I think these discussions are good for all of us, not preachy. Gary I was really glad you posted again, I was feeling snubbed. (That's in humor if you don't know me).

Daryl, I must have been helping you find your ball, those are right handed clubs.

Daryl Tucker

Dave, I know you're ambidextrous and swing both ways. Not that there's anything wrong with that! I like the fact that you're not too good to use the old fashioned technology. Check out those persimmon woods!

(Strange how they're in sharper focus than the rest of the photo. Must have been glare from the sun.)

David Lynn

What's swimming and running have to do with it?

David Lynn

Oh, that's amphibious.

Daryl Tucker

Well, Dave, it looks like we have successfully killed off all conversation on this forum except between the two of us. But it was a good forum while it lasted.

David Lynn

I guess so. I'll maybe just send you notes on our personal e-mail and call you now and then for other visits.

"Goodbye is to good of word babe, so I'll just say fare-thee-well." Bob Dylan

Dennis Sorensen

Don't leave quite yet!!   How about lunch tomorrow, 11:30 am at IHOP in Springville?  I am coming North for meetings and I know that the weather is supposed to be bad but we are like the mail persons, neither rain nor snow or bad jokes will keep us from our meetings in SLC.  How about the ladies are you willing to fair the storm and come have lunch with us?  Jan, Jill, Linda, Debbie, Kate, Gary, Dave, Daryl, Denny, Ken, Larry, and anyone else who dares eat the food at IHOP?? 

I know this is short notice, if no one can come it will be ok to I will just site there by my self and talk with my imaginary friends like I do normally when I go to SLC and eat lunch by my self. 

Hope to see some of you tomorrow, if not have a great week and weekend.  I do still check the forum even if I don't post all the time.  DS

Daryl Tucker

Hey Dennis! Nice to hear from you again. Tomorrow won't work out for me. I have a conference call with some software developers we work with and I won't be able to break away. I hope there are some others who can make it, though. 

Linda Schardine

sorry, can't make it for lunch, a little to far to drive.........

This site really does have a life of it's own, right now I think it's on life support with the few keeping it alive,

I'm sure things will pick up one day...............~~~~~~~~~ at least it's here......

Gary Averett

Dennis,

     I didn't see this invite until too  late,  I enjoyed our last visit, and I would like anouther.    For all of us.       About this site dieing, may very well be......Well I say shit here, try to get a response, get little.  Well, it seems that stating oppions is a no, no

unless it's all kissy, lovey stuff.  People read here, but say nothing.  Lack of comunication, is the downfall of this place, so be the same in life.

Kenneth Strong

Dennis,  I will try to make it.   I have been busy trying to get things done that I need done.   Seems like I never get caught up.   I am wondering if I am getting lazy or just can not keep up anymore.