Saturday, January 27, 2007

Trivial Pursuit

I lived in the city of Chicago for the first 19 years of my life, it’s my hometown. I lived in the city itself, not the suburbs. The Cubs are my favorite Baseball team and Da Bears are my favorite Football team. The “Hog Butcher for the World……. City of the Big Shoulders”. As “Old Blue Eyes would say “It’s My Kind of Town”.
Yesterday I visited one of the few Blogs that I have bookmarked: http://secondeffort.blogspot.com. The author of this Blog calls himself “The Curmudgeon” and is almost as overly opinionated as I am. I admire this quality, or what some of my friends would call a human failing, in a person. The Curmudgeon can also write a cohesive sentence or paragraph. This, in my eyes, is another admirable quality.
On his Blog he placed a quiz about Chicago Trivia. This quiz was geared towards the over 50 year old native Chicagoans. My answers were only 76% correct, but I am refuting one of my incorrect answers as being erroneous.
I pride myself on knowing unimportant fact and figures. Friends have said that I have a great knowledge of obscure facts and near total recall of events and things that happened forty to fifty years ago. Some say that I have the gift of a near photographic memory. I wish that I did have one.
As a child, my parents taught me how to be observant and how to train my memory. At 88 years old, a year before he passed away, by Dad could recall things that we did when I was 10 and 11 years old. However, he couldn’t recall what he had eaten for lunch the day before.
My ostensibly excellent memory has been nurtured and is not of an inherent nature. I enjoy remembering trivial things and revel in good memories that I have of the past. It’s the hard facts of life that I prefer to forget. Unfortunately these things are also imprinted on the hard drive in my cranium.
The Beach Bum

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