My parents, nor any of their peers ever thought I was a hooligan. I was a what is now called a 'nerd' all through high school. I worked my ass off before and after school in the first two years on a paper route via bicycle.
I never dressed like or affected the mannerisms of the 'cool guys' at the time. (The location was Medford, Mass. a suburb of Boston in '57 and '58)
The style was greasy ducktail haircuts (like Travolta in 'Grease'), dungarees (blue jeans), and white T-shirts with a pack of cigarettes rolled into the sleeves and smoking unfiltered cigarettes. Marlon Brando and James Dean played characters like this; rebellious and alienated. But that was for the cool guys. I just wanted a career in technology. I didn't want to fight or intimidate anyone or put on an act that wansn't who I saw myself as.
I thought my Dad was a square (he was 26 years older than me) but I respected his judgement and his achievement in his field; as a salesman for industrial rubber products. We was the ultimate can-do, self-starter kind of guy. He was able to support five boys and a stay-at-home wife. That can't be said of a lot of men these days.
So what do you do? Stockbroker, bouncer, produce clerk, what?
IIN that I can't stand guys with pork pie hats or backwards ball caps?
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My parents, nor any of their peers ever thought I was a hooligan. I was a what is now called a 'nerd' all through high school. I worked my ass off before and after school in the first two years on a paper route via bicycle.
I never dressed like or affected the mannerisms of the 'cool guys' at the time. (The location was Medford, Mass. a suburb of Boston in '57 and '58)
The style was greasy ducktail haircuts (like Travolta in 'Grease'), dungarees (blue jeans), and white T-shirts with a pack of cigarettes rolled into the sleeves and smoking unfiltered cigarettes. Marlon Brando and James Dean played characters like this; rebellious and alienated. But that was for the cool guys. I just wanted a career in technology. I didn't want to fight or intimidate anyone or put on an act that wansn't who I saw myself as.
I thought my Dad was a square (he was 26 years older than me) but I respected his judgement and his achievement in his field; as a salesman for industrial rubber products. We was the ultimate can-do, self-starter kind of guy. He was able to support five boys and a stay-at-home wife. That can't be said of a lot of men these days.
So what do you do? Stockbroker, bouncer, produce clerk, what?