Funny story.....
....so the last time I attended an inauguration, the only time now that I think about it, was....TADA....President Ronald Reagan!!!
Indeed me and a friend went to D.C. as part of some planned protest by women and we were all supposed to wear green. Me and the friend, who turned out to become my daughter’s teacher the following two years, ran around D.C. during the inauguration parade carrying five gallon buckets because we found them and needed them to stand above the crowd.
We made our way to the ramps off of the place where they swear them in and I was maybe 20-30 feet away from President Reagan and wife Nancy.
And though I was there in some sort of silly protest as I was a stupid women’s libber what knew nothing, let me tell you that Ronald Reagan was an amazingly handsome man and Nancy is a tiny women but as classy as they came.
So I got it into my head that I was going to shout bad things about Reagan and, heh, a couple of DC cops came up to me, turn me around to face the railing, kind of roughly, pinned my arms behind my back and told me, meanly, that if I didn’t shut up they would be snapping handcuffs on me.
Today go to hell I watch all those stupid protesters...and by the way not another woman showed up that day wearing green.
So I am talking to my mother-in-law now three or four husbands from that time. She tells me, after my story about Reagan, that she and her husband attended the inauguration of HARRY TRUMAN!
Wow! I was just intrigued. She told me it was her honeymoon and she and husband went to the inauguration while staying at a friend’s place. Her husband (fourth husban’d father) was in the military at the time.
Just a great story....both of us I’d argue.
LOL!! Great stories, Fishtalk. :) Thanks for sharing!