'That one summer...'

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Do you think you could age into that person who constantly reminisces about 'That one summer...'. Or do you already do this? Do you have a 'one summer' ? If so, tell us about it.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah it starts in in about 6 weeks : )

― Ronan, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, I am already that person. You have to remember, some of us are old already. But the question is - which summer was it?

1989, that'll do.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

maybe, but for some reason it seems to be winters more. but as for summers...1999, moving to london, new everything, knowing it felt right, it was the innocent start rather than the best times, things got better, but then much worse. also, 1995 and 1996, but this is nostalgia rather for times gone and a Leeds that no longer exists, they were no more or less good than any other.

anti-special summer. 2000. total disaster.

― gareth, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The summer of 2000 will be hard to beat. I stayed in new York, but it seems like I was at the beach every weekend. Just lolling about, grilling food nonstop, making bucketfuls of frozen drinks; the downstairs neighbors were always away and gave us their keys so that we could "water their plants"—which we attended to assiduously, and if they noticed that the tiki torches on their deck were out of fuel by the end of the summer, they never told us. That was also before Lydia and I had begun to grate on each others' nerves.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

taking sides: summer 2000 vs. summer 1999

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't have a special summer that I remember fondly. This is partly because I always used to dislike summer. I preferred autumn because autumn and winter clothes are more interesting, and also because I didn't like summer heat. Now, for some reason, I am starting to prefer summer (unless it gets horribly hot). I think this shift is related to climate changes: I love ultra-cold, clear winter days but cannot bear the endless greyness/dampness and strong winds that seem to dominate autumn and winter now in Britain.

― David, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Every summer is special for me. I am a shallow, simple creature, and my moods correspond directly to the temperature. In winter I bite my nails and always look frumpy and out of sleep; in summer I expand, maybe I actually increase in height, I change from introverted to somewhat extroverted, I get tan. why the FUCK do I live in Minnesota?!

― Dan I., Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Summer 2000 vs Summer 1999. Both were great, my two favourites perhaps.

― Ally C, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Because of cheap breakfasts out and cheaper Vietnamese, the thrift stores and the Walker Art Centre? I can't think why else.

― suzy, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whenever I reminisce I get depressed. So 'that one summer' will always be next summer. Thankfully.

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably May last year thru September last year could be referred to as such for me, yeah. That was a bizarre year.

― Ally, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No way, I've only had awkward summers. My clearest memory is standing outside the surf club wondering why drinking a bottle of kahlua has given me a chilling sensation of clarity and detachment.

Summers represent having to leave your home and reluctantly scrambling to appear normal.

Perhaps if one had an understanding family, summers could be blissful. The advantage of having had childhodd misunderstandings is that the summers to come look better than those that have been. I don't know that I would like to feel that a beautiful past was locked behind me.

― maryann, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've had my summers. Ups, downs and all arounds!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Summers during high school and college were generally so boring, there was nothing fun to do at all. Summer 2001 had its good moments though.

― rosemary, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I tend to go a bit nuts in summers. but generate memories. '97 i totally flipped. 98 was dull. 99 was dull. 2000 super stressed. 2001 was a quiet pleasant goodbye to an old city, and my best thus far, tho this promises to be better.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nope, no one good summer for me. Often been optimistic for the one summer, but it never quite materialises. Lots of great winters and autumns though.

― jel --, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

95 was pretty splendid, but last year was a corker, in the main.

― chris, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think this thread is mean.

― N., Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the summer of '69!

― bryan adams, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Summer of 1990 was nice at the time, but I'd never do it again.

― Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You probably won't get the chance anyway.

― N., Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably?

memory before 20 = rubbish. I had a lot of good summers in the 90s, can't really pick one out. It's been downhill each year since 1999. Maybe it'll pick up this year.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not ready to let go of my time machine dream just yet.

― N., Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

this year is shaping up pretty well I must say.

― chris, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't think of one that sticks out at all. All my previous summers seemed to have melded into one big memeory, certainly this is true of the last 5 or 6.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

N: classic comedy form

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Explain yourself.

― N., Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What's to explain?

― Ally C, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Again, 1990. Sixteen, lots of local friends, popular with the ladies (it's true! the next 12 years it went downhill, fast), fantastic musical discoveries as I'd only really been "alternative" for 6 months or so, beautiful evenings on Wimbledon Common with friends, girls and Gaymers Olde English. It was bliss, it really was.

Worst summer - 1997. Became unemployed in June, as my ex-girlfriend's mental illness was spiralling out of control, until she ended our relationship to move back to the country to try and sort her life out. Could barely sleep, didn't get any sort of job until September, felt completely void of happy things. It were horrible.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good summers were 1997 and 2001. When I was a child I was envious of those teen fantasy lives in the back of Seventeen magazines. The short stories were always about perfect summer romances that started and ended independence day weekend. Some boy from Georgia, a canoe and campfire. The adults would be discussing how music went crap after the 60's.

― Evangeline, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can only remember one year at a time. 2001 summer was monumental.

― Mandee, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

thirteen years pass...

That summer I was drifting. Somehow I had become detached from the reality of the day to day world. I couldn't remember when this had happened; only that there was a "before" that I recognized that was distinct from "now."

― calstars, Sunday, 12 July 2015 03:11 (ten years ago)

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