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To: Tax-chick
Hubby tended to avoid the O-club because everybody smoked and he was allergic. (Lets you know how old we are!)
29 posted on 08/04/2016 4:43:47 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

My parents quit smoking in the 70s, but Mom started again in the 80s and still smokes when she’s in Europe, where you don’t have to stand in a drippy-ceiling section of the parking garage to have a cigarette.

Dad went to the club regularly, both before he retired from the Navy and after, when he was working as a contractor, because you could get cheap drinks and hang out with peers while waiting out the worst of rush hour.

After they moved to The Villages in 2000 or so, he didn’t keep a membership at a military base, but there was a “Navy Club” that would rent one of the country club facilities from time to time to recreate the Old Days.


34 posted on 08/04/2016 4:48:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)
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