Our Perspective / Pick: Fuel

Disclaimer:  There are several songs that remind me of the time in our lives when Gabriel and Connor were not on the same school schedule and that allowed Connor to have some time alone with myself and Larry. So, because of that and to save myself time and effort I will write the pertinent background information and just reuse it at the beginning of each of these songs, then I will include any special memory specific to the song listed.  Now on to the background information…

When we moved to Lancaster, Ohio the boys went to school for several years at Fairfield Christian Church (Preschool) and then Fairfield Christian Academy (Kindergarten and up).  Depending on your age you might attend preschool for 1,2,3 or 5 days. These were half days in the morning or afternoon; Kindergarten was all day 5 days a week.  Since Connor was a year behind Gabriel in school it allowed for them to be on mostly different schedules until Connor started Kindergarten.  This was nice because as the second born and only being 13 months younger than Gabriel he never got any real alone time with mom and dad and this was mostly one on one alone time with mom and dad because Larry and I were still working separate shifts. I greatly appreciated this time and I’m sure Larry did as well and, in the moment, so did Connor but I don’t know if he would really remember that now since he was so young then (between the ages of 3 and 6).

Sometimes if the weather was nice Larry would meet me at a park in Pickerington that was about halfway between home and work or sometimes it was while running errands in Lancaster or even just waiting to pick Gabriel up from school, but these were all opportunities for us to have music playing and for a little while these were the songs of choice, Connor’s choice.

“Quench my thirst with gasoline.”

We had the Police, we had the Backstreet Boys and we also had Metallica or as Connor used to pronounce it when he was little ME-tallica.  If you would have asked him during the late 90’s who mommy’s favorite band was this was the answer you would get, “ME-tallica, mommy, ME-tallica”.  And then he would ask to listen to them.  Fuel was one of his favorites from that time period.

LB Notes:

I can distinctly remember how Connor pronounced Me-Tallica. Such a great, fun memory - the innocence of youth being corrupted mostly by his mom. 

Plus being a gearhead / rider this song, however cliche, just rocks...

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