[78-L] fwd: A Chance to Finally Forgive Mom for Throwing Out ThatCard

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 01:33 AM 2/18/2010, you wrote:
>martha wrote:
> >   I envy anyone who has or had parental support for his/her hobby.  Mine
> > condemned (in no uncertain terms) my interest in good music, old records,
> > and acoustic phonos as "a waste of money on JUNK".  All garbage, to them.
> >
>
>I wouldn't say it was TOTAL support!  I can still hear my mother saying
>"Oh Michael, when are you going to get RID of this stuff??"  But she did
>pay for my warehouse when I moved back to New Jersey (so the overflow
>wouldn't end up in her house!) However she let me take over her basement
>to finish writing my Ph.D. dissertation.  And she even was the typist of
>it!   There was one shelving unit with my 16mm films in her living room,
>which was handy when the FBI came to check out my film collection.
>Really.
>
>Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com

So did the FBI ever pay a visit to see your shelf of films? I wasn't 
into film collecting back then.