One of my favorite parts about road trips is listening to music in the car. I don’t mean the mixes – I guess they’re called playlists these days – I’m talking about entering a new state, hitting “scan” on the stereo, stretching my legs out on the dashboard, and listening to what music pops up.
Our road trips usually consist of driving back and forth to the Midwest, and driving away from the Chicago skyline brings with it a pain that I need to sit with in silence until I can’t see the Sears Tower anymore, so I end up playing my “scan the stereo” game once we hit Gary, Indiana. I don’t know why, but Indiana and Ohio play great 90s music. I can always count on spending a few hours with teenage Callie before we hit the Pennsylvania border.
I was a bit of an unassuming sneak as a teenager. I relied on my reputation as “the quiet one,” because I knew most people mistook being quiet for being meek. I wasn’t meek.
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For those of you interested, I got in touch with one of my old high school teachers, Mr. McBride, for this one. I wanted to make sure it was OK I wrote what I wrote. He’s the best; not because he said I could tell this story, but because he helped me write and name a few things here and there in 1994. Here’s to wonderful teachers who don’t give up on us.
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