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Topic: OT - What made you happy today?

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847badgerfan

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Re: OT - What made you happy today?
« Reply #2044 on: May 06, 2026, 02:23:06 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on May 06, 2026, 02:02:52 PM
Actual photo of badgerfan in the 90s:


90'S?

More like 70's...

I was born a poor black child.
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Re: OT - What made you happy today?
« Reply #2045 on: May 06, 2026, 04:14:51 PM »
I grew up lower middle to middle class in a very upper middle class suburb. 

I suspect my parents wanted us to be raised around good examples. 
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Re: OT - What made you happy today?
« Reply #2046 on: May 06, 2026, 04:26:43 PM »
Yeah, I grew up in a crappy area of Des Plaines, in the direct path of an ORD runway. 

Most common words used in the house were huh? what?

Gangs, crime, run down properties. 

I didn't think much of it then. It's all we knew. We were happy.

Today I'm happy.
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Re: OT - What made you happy today?
« Reply #2047 on: May 06, 2026, 04:37:43 PM »
I grew up by a prison. Don't pick up hitchhikers was something I was told.
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Re: OT - What made you happy today?
« Reply #2048 on: May 06, 2026, 05:56:01 PM »
I was told the same thing - no prisons in the area
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Re: OT - What made you happy today?
« Reply #2049 on: May 06, 2026, 05:59:37 PM »
had a business lunch with a customer that is also a good friend and fellow Husker fan 

neither of us are happy with the current state of the football program
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Re: OT - What made you happy today?
« Reply #2050 on: Today at 06:32:31 AM »
Quote from: MaximumSam on May 06, 2026, 04:37:43 PM
I grew up by a prison. Don't pick up hitchhikers was something I was told.
Quote from: 847badgerfan on May 06, 2026, 04:26:43 PM
Yeah, I grew up in a crappy area of Des Plaines, in the direct path of an ORD runway.
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on May 06, 2026, 04:14:51 PM
I grew up lower middle to middle class in a very upper middle class suburb.
I grew up in the 'burbs but within 20-40 minutes of plenty of auto plants/steel mills and affiliated shops/industries. And a couple of Horse Tracks.Most of those jobs have been moved out or greatly scaled back. Race Tracks are still there
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« Reply #2051 on: Today at 07:05:38 AM »
My Dad "worked" at the various horse tracks in and around Chicago.

There used to be 7 of them and he'd rotate depending on season and who "bought" the meets from the politicians.

There is only one left - Hawthorne in Chicago.
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« Reply #2052 on: Today at 07:24:25 AM »
never been to a horse track

had to settle for the dog track in North Sioux City

Sodrac Park shut down in 1995
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