That's Life!!!!

...was having a flashback that landed me in a 66 olds with 2 of my best buds...we were too young to love Sinatra...yet...we had this 8-track tape...we'd be coming from Pen's games in Pittsburgh...fresh out of a ripping nite of pitiful losing (Pens in the 60's)...but filled to the brim with pent up frustration, and on the edge of having yelled a solid 2 hours at refs!

We'd move like a solid mass of "burgers" out of The "Igloo"(seems like it was always 2 degrees) and hunt down that Olds, as far back in the upper lot as you could be and still pay money to park! It'd take 10 long, agonizing minutes to warm that frosty, crispy seated car. We'd be reshouting the "Pen's Suck" chant and ripping on Ron Stackhouse, as I recollect...

then....

We'd pop that Frank cart into the under-dash tape player(pretty hot for the day) and click to "That's Life"...damn...we'd sing that thing till we had no voices...none...raw...through the South Hills of Pittsburgh on the way for Pinchera's Pizza. Man...we'd sing...smacking that dashboard on the bridge.."I been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king..."

...a car of young guys who, not having a date to round out the nights, needed their hockey games...and Frank...and Pizza.

What a memory........
where are those guys...Gary....Tom...?