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Where were you and what were you doing at nineteen?

April 25 2016

Still a teenager but also an adult I was totally naive living with my boyfriend in a share house in Fitzoy drinking scrumpy cider,hanging out with folkie musos working in the Atheneum library..Happy days ...ps this OP was inspired by Rant's inner nineteen year old 😆Q

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  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    Went on holiday to Ibiza and realised what a big mistake it was. He was older and disappeared most nights on the razzle. But I loved the island and the atmosphere, it was a great holiday otherwise. Had to hang out with his older friends and then he got the shits if they paid me too much attention. Ill happily fast forward to my mid twenties.......Loved the music of that time though!

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    Had moved away from my home town to go to University. Was living in a college on campus. Drinking too much, and having terrible (though was unbeknownst, at the time) sex. Soon to be whisked away by a older guy on a motorbike who was lovely in so many ways, but unappreciated by (the 19 year old) me. Quite sure I was rather insufferable, very loud, and embarrassingly naive My current house guest is someone who I met at 19. Funny to see we didn't get that far in becoming less insufferable, though we are somewhat quieter, and now only rather naive. She hid my nozzle - and had been waiting for me to ask her about it. So, obviously I am slightly lower on the insufferable scale, at present

  • Missb4u

    Missb4u

    9 years ago

    Living at home, working in a very male dominated auto electrical repair shop. Getting hit on and sexually harassed every single day. Weekends were full of alcohol and sex and fast cars. Good times!

  • Cazz61

    Cazz61

    9 years ago

    When I was 19 I was a mother and a wife ... I loved being a mother but hated being a wife ....Nothings changed hahaha

  • Lovinit28andKC72

    Lovinit28andKC72

    9 years ago

    Living in Brisbane with house mates, days working for a department store in the credit department, nights working in a bar. Drinking way to much scotch from Thursday through to Sunday, driving a HR Holden down the coast, having lots of sex with a few different lovers, smoking lots of pot and other drugs and being a carefree, not a worry in the world, 19 year old hippy.....Wouldn't do it again for all the money in the world, but it was definitely fun, I'm surprised I survived actually. 💋

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    Living out of home , working in law, met someone fell madly in love and spent the next six years with him. No licence because at that point i was terrified of driving - got it a few years later

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    ...as a lead guitarist/singer in a jazz rock band. We made our way up and down the West Coast back home. I was also still hanging out at Uni doing all the things that I thought would make me (and everyone else that was paying for it all) happy. Yeah yeah... a few degrees and $1.00 will still buy you coffee at 7-Eleven. Fortune would have it... I eventually started playing Reggae.

  • horneycouplewa

    horneycouplewa

    9 years ago

    I was back packing through Thailand....best experience.Working various jobs except for SummerHad a cheater boyfriend....why I went to ThailandWas learning a lot about love hate trust and myself

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    I got married and was pregnant with my 2nd child 😊 I will never regret one moment. The best days and the fondest memories filled with joy & love ❤️ RR 💋💋

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    Skipping classes and doing just enough to pass. :)

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    at 19, I was engaged to an older guy, who was 28. Yes I was attracted to older men back then, go figure that is until a smoking hot barman came into town and I had to have him I then moved in with the smoking hot barman. The next year was a blur of mind blowing sex, dope induced but a lot of fun. Has a kind of flower power sound to it but not the 60's heady days

  • aussian43

    aussian43

    9 years ago

    It is depressing reading some of these comments. I was very shy and introverted! When I was 19 I was still living at home, was half way through an apprenticeship as a fitter and turner, and studying part time for a associate diploma in engineering. No real social life and still a virgin. The spare time when I wasn't working or studying was mostly spent reading fantasy novels and occasionally playing dungeons and dragons. It was not long after I turned 19 I bought my first computer, a 286! And started spending much time on it.

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    I was running wild, drink, drugs, fast motorcycles and pushing my luck.That's why I'm still paying for my mis-spent youth, it was good at the time though.

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    Rough riding bulls and bareback broncs in Rodeo.Doing TWO apprenticeships (Diesel Mechanics and Auto Electrician)..Became a father.paying off my first house.Training for state titles in Judo (Which I won)Drinking an obscene amount of alcohol.fcking anyone who I could.

  • MzCaTie

    MzCaTie

    9 years ago

    Got married, pregnant with our 2nd baby. Surviving my 1st year living away from family & friends in a small mining town. Wouldnt change it for the world :) - Posted from rhpmobile

  • uneventful

    uneventful

    9 years ago

    Still living at home.. but had own granny flat. Working for an insurance company.. holidaying in SA with b/f ... discussing marriage ... thankfully didn't go thru with it.. Riding motobike solo around the three lower eastern states. Tending to the needs and care of a close friend who was extensively injured in the Granville Train disaster..... shaping my career in Nursing. listening to some fantastic music. - Posted from rhpmobile

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    Quoting 'I_touch_myself2' at 19, I was engaged to an older guy, who was 28. Yes I was attracted to older men back then, go figure that is until a smoking hot barman came into town and I had to have him I then moved in with the smoking hot barman. The next year was a blur of mind blowing sex, dope induced but a lot of fun. Has a kind of flower power sound to it but not the 60's heady days If that guy reads this and recognises me, get in touch, oops no pun intended there, I'd love to know how your life turned out. This many years later, it would be fun to catch up again. Don't worry, I won't want to fuck you, you'd be too old for me now

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    Quoting 'I_touch_myself2' The next year was a blur of mind blowing sex, dope induced but a lot of fun. It was all about sex, drugs and rock & roll! I'm sure as hell glad I was smart enough to leave the drugs behind!

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    Driving a rally car off a cliff and rolling 6 times before coming to rest in blackness and silence... stream hissing under the bonnet... having to clinb back up the clif in the dark... mud... blackberries... then jump in the back seat (or where the back seat would be) of the next competitors car... holing onto the roll bar as we slid around at competition speed. Yes my pants should have been full of it... but happily youth protected me and my navigator.

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    oh and drinking way too much

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    I had a job at KFC and owned a car that was older than me (1965 Vauxhall Viva). My friends and I loved cutting laps of the Main Street in that car and using it in illegal street drag racing. I thought I was invincible and boys thought I was a real cool "dude" for how I could handle a car (not quite the impression I wanted to give them back then). I hovered between 39 and 42 kgs and thought I was fat. The sort of stuff that would make my hair go grey if I found out my own kids were doing.

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    And to another city. Studying dance and joined a contemporary dance company. Making my first deep friendships (both sexes) because my family always stopped me having a full life. Exploring the Arts and the countryside. Opening up to the joy of life and my own power.

  • Cazz61

    Cazz61

    9 years ago

    WiccaWitch I owned a Vauxhill Victor

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    with Mum and Dad, after just having a gap year off after doing my HSC, spending 6 months of that in Europe visiting relatives and, swearing off alcohol forever cause I so overindulged way too many times while there. Had just started Uni and was full of doubts as to what I was doing and what I wanted to do and too scared to change my preferences Had just bought a second hand little hand car and was working part time at a bookshop for funds No boyfriend but a great group of friends who I'm still mostly in contact with today.

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    Working in a bank, living with my boyfriend, drinking partying and having a general good time - Posted from rhpmobile

  • inspirit

    inspirit

    9 years ago

    Traveling around Australia like a free spirit on the wind.

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    I was at University in Manchester. I'd grown up in a small town in the Cotswolds and was suddenly living in a city and away from my parents. There were 60 000 students, a thriving night club scene with every type of music imaginable (it was around the time that The Stone Roses and Oasis put the Manchester music scene on the map and the Hacienda nightclub was known all over Europe). Bus loads of foreign students used to come over for the weekend to sample the nightlife. And I was attending Physics lectures and learning about Quantum Mechanics and the difference between the Special and General Theory of relativity :) I had a great time, but given my time again...

  • lovman8

    lovman8

    9 years ago

    full of testosterone and with a high libido. And also very shy and insecure and very socially inept and a virgin. Could very well have lead to calloused hands. Luckily I got through that and now I am much happier as an old , arrogant self obsessed prick, still with a high libido. Must check my hands for callouses?

  • sweetgem

    sweetgem

    9 years ago

    I was here (in Australia, fortunately) and already started full time work, making my own living, as well as supporting my family, together with one of my siblings and we were the only two income earners at the time! I know my case isn't the worst in human history, in fact far from it, but I am proud of who I am, what I have achieved in life, as I have a story to tell 😊 As I have mentioned before, I was separated from my parents at a very young age and my family only reunited as a whole one again in my teens! So, life to me is always a challenge to take and a lesson to learn! 😊 My childhood, my teens, my overall growing up have molded me into who I am today! 😋 - Posted from rhpmobile

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    this topic. I have found it really interesting to know what you were all doing way back then.You all sound like great people who have fabulous stories to tell - tell us more !!!!!!!!!

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    I forgot to "follow" this thread so I've just caught up with, it's kind of interesting in another way as my daughter is 19, at uni and living in a share house. It's a significant and formative stage of life, Remember the RedGum and Herd versions of I was only 19. Also Paul Hardcastle's nininini19, hell I even used nininini19 as a user name and email address.The old Vauxhall was something I had in my 20's Great thread thanks Q

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    My second of nine years in the RAN. My family has a long history of Military service (including a combined 60 years in just my immediate family). Consequently, we moved frequently and lived in many places around Australia. I had already spent a year in Cadets when I was fifteen, and had worked in my parents' businesses through my later years at school. Right at the end of my 19th year (of age), I headed off to the US for a year of further training in San Diego. Spent my 20th birthday on the flight there. That was the first of many subsequent trips overseas (during my service and since).P.S. In the Australian Navy, your Summer ceremonial rig was nicknamed your "Ice Cream suit".

  • RHP

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    9 years ago

    I was working in A.C.T and now in VIC just taking been going out having dinner but never got married , been over seas a few times lol just loving life .......

  • Laidback_Fun

    Laidback_Fun

    8 years ago

    At 19 we were just entering the fabulous world of swinging ! ;) - Posted from rhpmobile

  • RHP

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    8 years ago

    A Drunk.. A Drug fckd..A Biological parentA Diesel Mechanic in Training..\An Auto Electrician in Training (I did TWO apprenticeships back to back)A house owner..An Inconsiderate, opinionated Home breaker..President of a Martial Art club..A PigA lying fckA cheating Piece of shit..A bully..A Cowboy riding bulls and bareback broncs in Rodeo..I DID have a busy year at nineteen.. then I got Glandular fever, server burns to part of my body which culminated in Gangrene forming in the wound .. because I knew MORE Then the fckn Doctors about keeping myself in Shape..Things slowed down a little by the time I got out of my teens..