Crazy ’bout a Mercury
This was LindsAy’s first car.Â
Let’s do three firsts. Your first car, first pet and first job.
My first car was a Mercury. My first pet was Archie, a miniature dachshund. For my first job, I worked as a maid in a motel in Upstate New York.Â
March 4th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
1st Car: ‘88 Mazda GLC (Good Looking Car)
1st Pet: Pete the Parakeet
1st Job: Chuck E. Cheese game room attendant in EastGate Shopping Center
March 4th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I don’t know what year the car was. Had to be earlier than ‘88 because I was married with children by then. The memory…
March 4th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
My first car was a chevy pickup my dad gave me. It was named “mr. pickup”. My first dog (as an adult) was Oscar the grouch…a Lasa Opsa, aptly named. First job was a lifeguard. I wish I had made a career out of that….not a bad job really.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Those candy cars make me laugh every time I see them!
Car: Mazda Protege 5
Pet: it was a dog named biscuit, it was golden like a biscuit, so I named it that, I don’t remember what type of dog.
Job: I worked in a copy that made and sold fishing lures. I handled all the dealer accounts.
March 4th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Ok, is this supposed to be like your “stripper name?” First car+first pet+first job
Therefore, mine is “Blazer Crackers KTBS”
March 4th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
And Sher, that’s not my car…it’s T-Bone’s! Get it? “Reece’s”?!?!
March 4th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
cbp: I was Promotional Coordinator for Chuck E. Cheese’s in Eastgate in 1982-83. Did we work together?
March 4th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I’d drop the KTBS and just go with “Blazer Crackers”. It has a nice ring to it.
March 4th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Well, probably so. I also would don the Chuck E. Cheese costume for special events. If you ever got a token stuck in a video machine, I was keeper of the key that unlocked it and then I would (usually) give you your token back. I was also proficient at skeeball!
March 4th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
sherri, are you the one that booked Chuck E. for all of those lame public appearances?
March 4th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Yes, I booked Chuck E., Jasper T. Jowls and Mr. Munch for appearances. I, too, had to sometimes be Chuck E. Remember how kids used to pull Chuck E.’s tail all the time back then? Notice how he doesn’t have a tail now. Wonder if it was phased out or if he got too close to the pizza slicer.
March 4th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
I couldn’t stand to be around kids for a LONG time after I worked there.
March 4th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Gee and I felt bad about having to dress up in black polyester pants and stand in the middle of the mall on a saturday offering people “a delicious sample of our Chick-Fil-A nuggests”. At least i didn’t have to dress up as a giant rodent! Thanks Sherri Talley.com. My life is lookin’ better already. What can you do about other painful memories..like say…oh Jason Weimar’s voice!
March 4th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Oh my God. I have this videotape of me when I was little hugging Chuck E. Cheese at the Chuck E. Cheese on Youree Drive!
If you guys saw me there, I was the cute girl with the big brown eyes and the dancing ringlets that was probably hugging you (AKA-Chuck E. Cheese)
March 4th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
And once AGAIN, this post has gone waaay too far off topic.
But…
Here is a list of all the Chuck E. Cheese “characters” and they’re bios/pics! Good times!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chuck_E._Cheese’s_characters
March 4th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
We should change your name to ‘Mrs. Blazer cheese n’ crackers.
March 4th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
first car-a 76 ford…it would later become my 3rd car with a new paint job and engine
first pet-a blackandwhite mixed bred collie..name Bo
first job-pair of hands on a industrial construction site ,my dad was the job foreman….he told me i may hear him use words that he doesnt use around mom…
March 4th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
lindsAy…was crackers a dog a parrot or a big rat ?
March 4th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
It was a Springer Spaniel I think. I couldn’t say “Crackers” so I said “Crackies”.
March 4th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
LindsAY you said: “I was the cute girl with the big brown eyes” You have high self esteem don’t you? What’s that like?
March 4th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
1st car: ‘98 saturn SL2
1st pet: dog name strek (don’t know what kind)
1st job: Hamel’s amusement park (good times)
March 4th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
rt, I’m just being honest.
You know you’re 100% totally in love with me.
Don’t deny.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
And rt, I said I WAS….WAS the cute girl with the big brown eyes.
WAS cute. WAS.
I still have big brown eyes though…at least my left one.
March 5th, 2008 at 7:00 am
1st Car: ‘76 Mercury Capri
1st Pet: Hamster (forgot his name)
1st Job: Shreve City Driving Range. I drove a tractor and picked up golf balls.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
CT, OMG I used to play putt-putt golf there!
LindsAy, if you got knocked down by Chuck E.’s tail, then yes, we saw you. It was just so hot inside that fur…it made you do things you wouldn’t normally do…like step on small children. Sorry.
March 5th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I didn’t get knocked down, gurl. Nor knocked “up”…
March 5th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Yes, I call EVERYONE gurl. I don’t care if you’re male or female, gurl.
P.S.-I’m making fun of the whole “callin’ people “girl” thing”…I HATE it.
March 5th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
First car I drove was my Dad’s old Ford Falcon but my first car which I shared with my sister was a bright green Datsun B-210 with black interior and no air conditioning. It did have a radio.
First pet: Jingles the cocker spaniel that we got on Christmas Eve
First real job: Working at Pou, Quinn, Watkins and Thornton. I even got a date with one of the patients!
March 5th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
LindsAY’s first car was pretty sweet, but it needs bigger rims.
Sherri, check this out.
http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~bmclean/pics/73capri.jpg
March 5th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
that was an awesome car ct. how many of ya’ll did that pass down from?
March 5th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
charlesm: On the NSU campus, I remember being met with another vehicle in my lane, having to swerve and crash the yellow Capris into a tree. Loved that car. Stick shift. Sporty for its time. Don’t even remember the sibs’ experiences. HRB, CT, Suzie? Who drove it?
March 5th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I drove it the first year that I had my license. I’m pretty sure Suzie and HRB did too. My friends called it “The Banana”. I loved that car.
March 5th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
1st car - 1968 Chevy Impala (grecian green)
1st pet - Snoopy (real orignal name) - Dachshund
1st job - LA State Dept of Education - Textbook Depository (big warehouse). We were responsible for all schoolbooks (grades 1-12), INCLUDING TEACHERS EDITIONS. This fringe benefit came in real handy during my 11th and 12th grade years. All the real smart girls in Bookkeeping/Accounting classes (cuz there were only about 2 guys) always wondered why I got straight A’s on all my homework.
First real non W-2 job was selling programs at LSU football games - did this for about 4 seasons as a kid.
CT - my 2nd car was a 1977 Capri with the 2.8 liter engine w/ 4 speed and I loved it. Car survived getting crushed underneath the Racetrack gas station on Old Minden Road during the 1978 Bossier tornado (I was inside paying when it hit the station and girlfriend sitting in the car) - Sher, think Joe Haynes told my tornado story one nite when he broadcast the weather from the new convention center. 80
Mel - Pou, Quinn, etal. is one of my current customers now - really great folks.
March 5th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
wow george that same tornado’s last stop was way out at bodcau/old cotton valley road where me a sister and mom and dad were laying next to my grandfathers big white cadallic we made it but alotta other stuff didnt…the caddy took a pine tree…we crawled out from under allthat….30yrs since that twister
March 5th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
jj, sounds like you guys very lucky too!!
My girlfriend and I drove back from Christmas Lights in Natchitoches so I could drop her off at NSU Nursing school dorm and return to NSU campus next day. We got into town and rented room at hotel across street from the gas station on Old Minden Rd. After paying for room, we decided to cross street and get gas and candy bar before heading to room. Had no clue of tornado watch during the evening. While inside paying, all the lights in the whole area blew out and I heard the very loud “train sound” they speak of - in span of about 10 seconds, I realized we were in the middle of hell and grabbed the young pregnant gal working there (who had started crying) and pushed her to the floor and laid on top of her. Just as we hit the floor, the building was leveled, When the dust settled, we had to crawl out on our stomachs - the big covering/roof to the gas station pumps had blown onto the hood of my car and my front bumper was pushed to the ground from the weight of the roof. My girlfriend (who was still in my Capri)was scared, but ok, and had the roof hit about 2 - 3 feet further back, she would have been in big trouble.
Man, talking about ruining a good eveing of drinking and hopeful fun nite with girlfriend. Oh, we used our hotel key to figure out where our room was and located it - glad we were not in there!!! The room would have been rockin’, but it would not have been because of me!!!
A crazy evening…..
March 6th, 2008 at 1:14 am
is there a happy ever after and the girlfriend still around dodgein twisters and enjoying be Mrs.george…i love a happy endin…mom and dad and me and two sisters and a brother came back to all that nothing yrs later and rebuilt …mom still lives there
March 6th, 2008 at 6:10 am
car-77crysler Newport -my friends called the ss newman
pet-snowball&holly-cats that I dressed in babydoll clothes and drove around the house in a baby carriage.
job- b.k. Drive thru, still have the visor.
March 6th, 2008 at 8:48 am
I also worked at Chuck E. Cheese in the summer and fall of 1983 and wore the Chuck E. costume as well as the Mr. Munch costume when I wasn’t cleaning tables or washing dishes.
On day I was in the Mr. Munch costume when a little boy looked up into the mouth and realized there was a person inside and not a monster. He proceeded to punch Mr. Munch in the stomach but the costume was a little big for me at the time. You probably don’t have to guess where the punch actually landed. Still kinda hurts to think about it.
I also remember Sherri driving us around in a Jeep while we were in costume to advertise the restaurant.
March 6th, 2008 at 9:34 am
jayteegee: Wow! I still have a picture of you and ‘the others’ in the jeep. Will try to find it! That place was wildly popular. I know we scheduled more than 100 birthday parties a week for five weeks straight.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:45 am
I don’t know how y’all did it. I think Chuck E. Cheese smells like feet!
March 6th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
i remember when that place was crystal palace the arcade place with go-carts inside ….and going to the movies at east-gate
March 6th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Eastgate was so cool back then.
March 6th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Crystal Palace was awesome!
March 7th, 2008 at 8:42 am
I SEE LINDSAY STILL DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO SPELL!!! EVEN WHEN IT IS IN FRONT OF HER TO COPY IT’S REESE NOT REECE GET IT!!
April 11th, 2008 at 12:46 am
After working all day I visited this website and guess what? I sound this source and I don’t feel tired any more! It’s the best entertaining source!