Steve W. wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Larry Jaques wrote:
If you're a touch typist, simply dot the F and J keys with a mound of
epoxy or fingernail polish, or superglue a rounded piece of broken key
to the tops. If you're not a touch typist, shame on you. You should
have learned that by now. When computers came out, I sure was glad I
took typing in 9th grade.

Boys weren't allowed to take typing when I was in school, until my
senior year. I wasn't about to drop a shop class, to be in a hot
classroom with a 70+ year old screeching woman teacher. You could hear
her to both ends of that floor.


I was forced to take "keyboarding" as well as one quarter of "home
economics" Barely passed keyboarding but had no problems in home ec. My
Mom was one of the "Men should be able to cook and sew" people. She
taught me both long before that class.


Home Economics was another course that boys didn't take in my school
system, in the '60s. My mother insisted that I learn to cook, as well.

That was taught in Jr. High, and I had a class across the hall from that
classroom. Quite often you would see and hear a girl run screaming from
the classroom, and down the hall to the restroom to throw up when they
tried their cooking. The boys watched to see who kept doing it, and
stayed away from those girls to keep from being poisoned. ;-)

My schedule was interesting in Jr and Senior high school. I took
every math and science class that was available, except second year
Algebra. There was no way to fit it in. I took Latin, Metal Shop, Wood
shop, Drafting, and Electronics 1 and 2. I was the teacher's assistant
while taking Electronics 2. I was already working in a TV shop before I
took the two Electronics courses.

I also taught a night adult education course in small appliance
repair, before I was old enough to drive.