Keeping boys off the campus

When I was around 5 or 6 years old, my brother and I would hang out at Kyle's, a burger joint that used to be very near where the HBR offices are now.  It was also a favored hangout for the bad Catholic Girls from Sacred Hearts (is that the name of the girls' school down the block?).  They were much older than me, much bigger, had breasts, wore makeup, smoked cigarettes, and put ketchup and pepper on their french fries.  The ketchup AND pepper on french fries really sums it up.  My mom would not allow us to put both ketchup AND pepper on our french fries.  That was immodest overcondimenting, and if we were anything, we were not overcondimentors. 

 

These girl's school girls also had a lot of boyfriends.  Since boys were not allowed anywhere on the campus, Kyle's was their hangout too.  Tough, slick looking guys who smoked cigarettes, had tatoos, and bright cars with chrome engines in uncovered engine compartment bays.  The girls with the Biggest and the Most always attracted the attentions of the guys with the coolest cars.  They'd have fistfights in the parking lot too.  Back then I thought they were fighting over cars.

 

This conference is the first one I've been to where vendors have been banned.  Good idea, I think.  Vendors tend to pollute the atmosphere.  MLS folk should be talking to other MLS folk and not somebody trying to sell them expensive stuff over drinks and dinner.  But nature being what it is, there ARE vendors lurking around here.  Some are bold enough to have actually checked into the hotel.  Yeah, Spring Break, sure.

 

Funny thing, though.  The MLS with the Biggest and Most attracts the vendors and that MLS gets dinner somewhere.  French fries with ketchup AND pepper, most likely.  Well, I guess we don't have the Biggest or the Most because we didn't get invited anywhere.  But the MLS that did, well they come back and boast about who took them to dinner etc.  They just blab about it to the rest of us girls. 

 

When I was a kid, I though, wow, being grown up was really going to be something, and I always wondered what it was going to be like.