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[quote=Anonymous]Flying home after New Years I remembered my first airplane flight (coming home from college my first year for xmas break, flying was something only our relatives who worked for the military in a very remote location and 2 other relatives who were much better off than everyone else did). I didn't know what the flaps were and was afraid the wings were falling apart.

Also, I grew up in flat country and did not realize people from other places routinely put on the emergency brake when they parked (IDK if this is still something people do). So on a college trip through mountains in my car and I took over driving after one of the other people had been, I wrecked my rear brake drums driving with the emergency break on for 50 miles (I'd been sleeping before that and probably didn't even recognize that the emergency brake was on--we just never used it). Had to drive through a mountain pass with the brakes grinding loudly before getting to where they could be fixed.

I had never direct dialed before I was a sophomore in college--long distance was a very, very rare thing in my family and although direct dialing had been around for a few years I have never used it before being told I didn't have to do a person to person call from a home where I was a guest (so I wouldn't waste a station to station and end up talking to my little brother). [/quote]

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