DAY THREE: Bonus Stacey Story Saturday! 

This is our third grade class picture, the year we became friends. We joined the same Girl Scout troop as well. As part of scouting, we did the usual cookie sales and badge projects, and our 50 cents dues each week funded camping trips and volunteer efforts.

To our surprise, we received an ENGRAVED invitation from Governor Schaefer to a tea honoring volunteers. A. TEA! We didn’t even like tea, but we’d be darned if we’d miss an opportunity to eat a biscuit with the Guv’nuh!

We shopped for new dresses and paired them with some fancy shoes. We even bought NEW NYLONS. To this day, I’m not sure why we didn’t realize that an event being held at the old Baltimore Civic Center wasn’t going to be up close and personal. Did our mothers know and not want to burst our bubble? Imagine our surprise when we showed up to the “tea” with approximately 10,000 other people and sat in section Z500, row TT.

FUN FACT: We also saw our first concert, Shaun Cassidy, at the Civic Center. He jumped through a big paper poster and ripped his pants. Governor Schaefer’s pants, however, remained intact throughout the tea.

We still snort about getting all gussied up and having Stacey’s mom drag us downtown for a bunch of speeches, a cup of KoolAid, and a single Murray’s sugar cookie.

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