A Chirstmas Story

[Super Ordinary Guy]

Remember how every year at Christmas time we start talking about A Christmas Story and how I keep saying I see so much of me in Ralphie...

A Lot of people said that is the why the movie is so great everyone sees something of themselves in Ralphie...

Well let me know what you think,,, is this me or Ralphie ???

His family or mine ???



I gotta quit looking through those old photo's I didn't even know my mother had....

[Doug Palumbo]

Even though he is sans panama straw and mustache, SOG is still cool, sporting a leather jacket at that age!

[n11pilot]

SOG, that is a stylin' outfit.

[DanielJones]

What SOG neglected to say is that this picture was taken in July, and that is Raoul standing next to him.

But seriously, that is a cool photo and yes we all feel a kinship to Ralphie or his brother. My own Mother used to bundle me up in winter like that at a very early age, and we lived in central California. I suppose Chicago never left her blood. Any time she felt cold she would throw another layer on me. Like Ralphie said, "He looked like a tic about to burst."

Great photos SOG, I'm really enjoying what you're sharing here. Thanks.
What's really cool for me is this photo reminded me of the bomber hat that I wore into the ground around 2nd & 3rd grade winters. It was one of my favorites.

Cheers!

Dan

[Doug Palumbo]

I got another one...


Great pic! By the way, where's your motorcycle Fonzerelli?

[n11pilot]

Everyone, well every guy, sees a little of Ralphie in themselves. Well lets put it this way. I was blond, I wore kid glasses and I got a BB gun for Christmas one year over the objections of everyone of my relatives bearing a second X chromosome.

All went well and I developed my skill in the back yard not unlike Ralphie. Two days after Christmas my parents went to visit some out of town relations and left me at home with the promise that I would stay inside the house. I don't know what came over me but I shot half of the decorative balls off the tree, it was like eating peanuts, I couldn't stop.

When my parents came home I didn't see that BB gun again until I was almost old enough to buy a real one. I also had many years of gun safety lectures. I think I was the evil Ralphie.