[LowOiL]

I also briefly lived in both of your trailer parks (before moving even further out on wire road). Gentilly and Stonegate Trailer park were considered good locations. They had the bicycle lane on wire road into the campus and I once fancied myself a bicyclist until one day I overfilled my front bike tire and had it explode on me on the road. I did about 3 flips and tore all my clothes up and totaled my bike, bloody mess I was. I threw my bike in a dumpster and thumbed home and never did the bike thing again. LOL...

LOL, we were trailer park trash too, Dad/Mom was sending us three kids at once on very modest means (bless their hearts). I remember just how poor we were. Do you remember the sugar ants Auburn had, you couldn't leave a french fry laying around for 5 minutes in your car without a whole colony of ants invading. I bought some "captain crunch cereal" once as a treat (high dollar munchies back then). Anyway, the durn ants found em in the cabinet and it infuriated me, my special cereal was sacred and these pests had encroached on forbidden territory. I decided they must die, so I placed my box of sugar treats in the microwave and cooked on high for two minutes. My mistake was leaving the scene of the crime to use the bathroom and when I returned my whole kitchen area was engulfed in the most horrible black smoke you could imagine. It took days to clean my kitchen walls, floors, ect... and I still think to this day you probable can faintly smell the stench produced by CCC.

Just one of several dumb things I did back then. The bad check thing to McDonalds was another bad mistake. That was the most expensive Big Mac, Fries, and Dr. Pepper meal in the country. I can still see the veins popping out of my dad's head when I told him...LOL...I never wrote another bad check since then...***ouch***

I haven't been back to AU in years. I'm getting the memory itch now.

[martinidon]

I remember the ants, but I remember the big tree roaches most of all! I have never seen so many roaches in my life. I would go to bed at night and could here them eating the walls! I remember I found some in my oven and I called the exterminator out. He would not spray anything in or around the oven. I asked him how I could get rid of them and he said turn your oven up to 500 degrees and leave it on for a couple of hours. He said do that about once a week and it should take care of them... Good thing about living out west, not too many insects or bugs!