Just Once!

Things I'd really like to see!

Published on August 26, 2004 By Anne Alogy In Blogging

Hello Again,

We've all been there. Someone or something angers, saddens or frustrates us all, and we wish things would be different, and we resort to those tried and true words "Just once I'd like to (see)".....

Clean streets and sidewalks in Los Angeles, like they do in Beverly Hills & Santa Monica.....A heavyweight boxing champion that defends his title more than once a year.....A doctor concerned with patients' well-being first and not payments or malpractice insurance.....Both the local and worldwide music scenes get interesting again.....Certain radio talk show hosts not make a conspiracy out of every little news event.....Marilyn Monroe NOT being deified.....Any televangelist not ask for money.....Some older actors & actresses I'm familiar with finally get their big breaks.....A foreign company outsource jobs from their country to the US.....Proposition 13 repealed.....Something done about the growing gang problem.....Jay Leno & Larry King ask their guests hard questions.....A company like Clear Channel, TicketMaster & SBC declared an illegal monopoly & broken up.....The NCAA drop the amatuer pretense.....The FCC repeal its deregulation policies.....Slug a drunk driver.....A politician who preaches family values actually value families.....Barbra Streisand somehow get publicly humiliated.....Join a co-ed softball league.....And hit a game-winning home run.....A cure found for any incurable disease.....Another 30-game winner in the big leagues.....The crime rate & prison population go down.....Any of the wrongs from the 1972 Munich Olympics righted.....A free election in Cuba.....The leader of North Korea get his head out of the darkness.....An athletic contest of any kind played just for the sheer joy of playing.....Write a successful novel.....A sports car race at Laguna Seca Raceway in Northern California.....Be the starter/flag waver in any kind of auto race.....A World's Fair or Exposition in Southern California.....The alcohol & tobacco industries honestly admit that they go after underage customers.....A fired, high-profile executive admit that he screwed up instead of trying to make a martyr out of himself.....Be on an airplane without at least one ot the other passengers being nervous about flying.....Ride in a Rolls Royce or Bentley.....Jim McKay back on television.....A certain modern-day brother comedy act use original material.....Try water skiing.....Drive cross-country.

I'm sure I'll think of other things I could have listed later, but you get the idea, I'm sure.

Thanks for reading. As Always, Anne Alogy

Comments

kingbee

on Aug 26, 2004

make that drive cross country in a bentley or rolls and you gotta copilot/navigator

(ive done it several times from both directions; the last time i volunteered even though it meant i hadda load a truck fulla furniture and fly myself back here. it can be tooo much fun; the only real drawback--for me anyway--is just when im really into the rhythmn and the groove, i hit the ocean and its over)

Anne Alogy

on Aug 26, 2004

*King, I don't think taking a Bentley or a Rolls across the country would be safe! Blend in with the crowd, I always say!
Hitting the ocean is never a bad thing!

As Always, Anne

thatoneguyinslc

on Aug 26, 2004

I've driven a rolls....Felt like driving a big pimped out chevy to me

I miss Jim McKay too.

Anne Alogy

on Aug 26, 2004

*thatoneguy, You're one up on me! I would imagine that a ride in a Rolls or Bentley would be about the smoothest ride, ever!
--As Always, Anne

BlueDev

on Aug 26, 2004

A doctor concerned with patients' well-being first and not payments or malpractice insurance

I know quite a few actually. I would be happy to introduce you.

An athletic contest of any kind played just for the sheer joy of playing

Go to the local soccer/football field/basketball court. Watch the kids play. Play with them. We could learn a lot from them.

Try water skiing

Wow, what a rush. Snow skiing is great (I'm from Utah, isn't it like a law that I ski?), but not even close to the fun of water skiing IMO. I really hope you can get that one soon. Everyone should have that chance.

thatoneguyinslc

on Aug 26, 2004

Snow skiing is great (I'm from Utah, isn't it like a law that I ski?)

I think it's a law we have to tolerate the skiiers....And why ski when you can snowboard?

Thatoneguyinslc

BlueDev

on Aug 26, 2004

Hah, I actually am not a big snow skier. Been enough to know sort of what I am doing, but I don't like winter enough to seek it out. I much prefer the water variety.

Anne Alogy

on Aug 27, 2004

*BlueDev, I tried snow skiing once, at Moonridge near Big Bear. I didn't hurt myself or anything like that, it just didn't do anything for me. I wondered what the big deal was. You're kinda confirming what I've been suspecting, that water skiing is a lot more fun. --Anne

*Thatoneguy, Snowboarding is cool, in more ways than one! --Anne

kingbee

on Aug 27, 2004

I don't think taking a Bentley or a Rolls across the country would be safe

i agree. and if i cant swing a tbird (57 thru 60), ill settle for an rx-8. theyre almost impossible to roll

Anne Alogy

on Aug 27, 2004

*King, we'll have fun, fun, fun till my daddy takes the T-Bird awaaay. We'll make the Indy 500 look like a Roman Chariot race. Actually, I would be thrilled to be in a Chevelle SS, preferably a '66, 440 engine, mags, tuck & roll, I'm not asking for much, am I?
As Always, Anne

The Crusaders

on Aug 28, 2004

Anne Alogy,
Thats a long list there....but it could go on forever...hey!

An athletic contest of any kind played just for the sheer joy of playing...

I would like to see that too.....but I think BlueDev was right in saying...

Go to the local soccer/football field/basketball court. Watch the kids play. Play with them. We could learn a lot from them.

It would be good to see the Olympic games without the medals and places.....

Anne Alogy

on Aug 29, 2004

*Crusade, You used to get purity in athletics at the Div. III level of colleges, but that's changed, especially in football, where Arena Football now drafts players from Divs I-AA, II, III & NAIA. Overseas basketball leagues are also mining those divisions, both men & women.

I'm afraid that if you took the medals & places out of the Olympics, you would also lose TV coverage & corporate sponserships. Cities worldwide would stop bidding to host the Games. IOC members would lose all their freebies & perks. We can't have that! --Anne

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