YOU KNOW YOU'RE A ZABBIE (OR AIR
FORCE BRAT) WHEN....
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It had been
a rough night at the Golf Course and you could not make it up the ditch (in base
housing separating o quarters from enlisted) to get home. ~~ Pat Stafford Ferguson
Hi,
My name is
Chuck Tigue, Sevilla HS Class of '63, an original Toro. I
maybe
unhappy
that when the USAF, in its infinite wisdom, closed my school and then moved the
mascot and colors to Zaragoza. True, ZHS, at that time, had
the crappiest mascot (Zebras) because the school colors were THE worst (black
& white). I think ZHS was the last of the 4 in Spain to open and
all the good colors were taken (blue & white, crimson & cream{fancy red
& white}, and red & black) or the someone who was picking the colors had
no imagination. All the is water under the bridge and not real
important. But what is important is that a Toro is a Toro. I
just read "You know you're a Zabbie when..." They brought back
a rush of memories that only an AF brat in Spain would or could understand...
"Gee, Mom, we missed the last bus. So we just stayed downtown
all night"....43 & Coke...& not Pepsi or Diet Coke...played football so
that I could travel (my junior year was the first year for tackle football in
Spain, no matter what the NFL says)...I'm not certain about the name of the
feria there in Zaragoza, but it was something like La Feria de Sta. Pilar....my
best friends are folks I
have not
seen in 15+ years...going to Rota for "real" milk. Anyway, thanks for the
memories. Toros! OLE! ~~
Chuck
"... you
still remember how you got away with staying downtown a
little
later
because you convinced your parents that you missed the early
bus
back on
base from Plaza San Francisco".
"... When
you get together with your best friend of 15 years & your
main
topic of
conversation is "Remember when we ... in Zaragoza?"
"... when
you go to these reunions and you feel so comfortable around
a
bunch of
people that you either don't remember or never really met
but
it's ok
because you're all Zabbies" ~~ Michi
Fernandez
You know
you're a Zabbie when you actually look back with nostalgia on those cold windy
nights standing at the front gate trying to hitch a ride back to town after a
night of carousing at Mom's Place, Golf Course or where ever the action was that
night. ~~ Rick Caffery
....The
combination to your storage shed, motorcycle lock, gym locker are your football
numbers, soccer numbers, year you graduated or a combination of the
two...three? ~~ Mike
Rickey
You've got
a Bull - Beanie Baby on your car dashboard.... and every body says "Go Bulls"...
but you know better (Go Toros!) ~~ Mike
Rickey
... when
you see a "Mighty Toro" and not a cow when looking at our mascot ~~ Kirk Babino
...You know
you're a Zabbie when you get this irresistible craving for a Cuarenta y Tres
(43) and coke-especially when watching a Friday the 13th movie!! ~~ Judy Longoria de Hutton
You
know that ZAB is not a laundry detergent, or a low calorie soda. ~~ James Mahlan
...You name
your dog Toro
...You
serve Boone's Farm at your wedding
...Your
favorite song is Ring My Bell
...Your
curfew was 4:00 a.m. even when you were just 16!
...You
couldn't date the high school guys because they were your best friends and it
would be like dating your brothers...Yuk!
...You talk
to other "normal" high school kids and they don't know what a "bus monitor"
is!
...You
joined the sports teams just to travel!!!
...The
downtown biker chic was your Spanish teacher
...You tell
your kids there were 23 people in your graduating
class
...Your
high school friends are as special as family ~~ Jiri
Crowder
...your
favorite sports team wears RED and BLACK!(go MIAMI HEAT!!!)~~ Sonya Cooper
...you
attempt to go through life baffling and "shooting the Bull" based solely on your
high school mascot. ~~ Maurice.. uh Gangsta of luv..
uh Bryce McCloskey
....you get
up in the morning and pour Schlitz on your corn flakes. ~~ Bryce McCloskey
....everything in your closet is still either black and/or red.
~~ Cathy Carmona-Reed
... as you
walk outside you automatically lean into the wind to keep from being blown
over. ~~ Jeff Hickman, Class of
92
...you
check the ZHS Alumni Directory (Homeroom page and Message Board) EVERY DAY to
see who else has surfaced...and are excited to see a new name, even if you have
no clue who they are. ~~ Dolores
Gargus
...when you
are willing to pay $4 for some custard they call Flan ~~ Teresa Almond-Welch
... when
your best friend is the world is someone you haven't seen in 15
years ~~ Teresa
Almond-Welch
...when you
talk about the tubes and nobody knows what your talking about. ~~ Bryan Kuhl
...when
you've been to Rasputin, Why Not?, Scratch and Laser . . .and when you joined
the Chorus and didn't know how to sing, because you wanted to go to Rota for a
week!!! ~~ Abraham Smith
...you
can't remember who was more drunk... your parents who were partying down at the
o'club (or bowlling alley or el cisne or nco club) or you and your friends who
were stumbling off the downtown bus and into the youth center where you waited
for them to come and pick you up. ~~ Kenny
Lignon
You know
you're a Zabbie when you ask the waitress for a 'churro' to dunk in your hot
chocolate! ~~ Krista
Hurley
......you
offer someone a cake donut to go along with a Schlitz! (Hey, Sylvia!
Do you remember the park?) ~~ Maria
Salvo
You go to
K-mart and "recognize" the Air Force "Sergeant Section" You know.... Pull over
poly-blend polo shirts with Horizontal stripes and big collars, K-mart (read
off-brand) jeans with stretch waist and cuffed legs, Hats that read "I married a
Nun, nun last night...nun tonite," cheap cigars hat were smoke at Toros
football games early Saturday mornings.........sigh! ~~ Mike Rickey
Every two
to three years you find yourself rearranging all the furniture in your house.
It's not that you like to push and shove heavy pieces of stuff around, but
you're conditioned from birth to uproot your
whole world
and try to reassemble it somewhere else. ~~ Lynn
Pascoe
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