When I was Fourteen

[Brickjectivity]

Tell something about your fourteenth year. In my fourteenth year I learned how to make tiny rockets using matches and aluminum foil.

 

[Left Coast]

In my 14th year, 9/11 happened. I learned it happened in US history class.

 

[PureX]

In my 14th year of life on Earth, I had sexual intercourse for the first time.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I can think of nothing significant that I did in 1973.

 

[Polymath257]

When I was 14, I was studying differential equations, thinking about general relativity, starting to notice girls, and really getting frustrated with high school.

 

[Estro Felino]

Let's see...
First year of high school...in a not that crowded hilly town...
I was obsessed with The Bold and The Beautiful...and other telenovelas.

And I wanted to meet my prince charming at school....

 

[Onoma]

At 14 I spent my time addicted to hard drugs and living on the streets, or bouncing back and forth from attending rehabs to getting booted from good private schools

Can't really recall anything good from those times, they were dark days in my life

 

[exchemist]

When I was fourteen, men first landed on the moon, while I was at a school camp on Rannoch Moor. A farmer let us watch on his TV. On that same expedition I also went to a pub for the first time (illegally) and drank a pint of cider.

 

[Estro Felino]

When I was fourteen, men first landed on the moon, while I was at a school camp on Rannoch Moor. A farmer let us watch on his TV. On that same expedition I also went to a pub for the first time (illegally) and drank a pint of cider.

I drank my first vodka at 12...lol

 

[exchemist]

I drank my first vodka at 12...lol

At 12, I was introduced to alcohol by my grandfather, who used to offer those of that age or over the choice of a tumbler of either pale ale or cider to drink with the Sunday roast. We never got that at home and it seemed out of character for such an ascetic Edwardian gentleman. But he believed in marking progress towards adulthood in small ways.

 

[sun rise]

I don't remember anything significant when I was 14.

 

[ChristineM]

14 was a significant year for me. I was treated very badly by adults at my church because i was the stupid kid who couldn't read from the bible. After a while i bucked up the courage to give them the finger and leave the church.

Very soon after i was diagnosed with dyslexia, remedial measures prescribed and voila, i could see letters.

It was the year i learned to read, which eventually propelled me through college and university.

It was the year that i started to read the bible, the second book i ever read (first was "the colour of magic). Reading the OT, as written, not as preached with a time machine finished the job of alienating me from Christianity, and i began my drift into atheism

Oh, and my 14th birthday was the last and best birthday party i remember.

 

[ChristineM]

I don't remember anything significant when I was 14.

You know what they say, if you can remember, you weren't there ;-)

 

[McBell]

When I was 14 the hip hop happening tv show was.....

Tales of the Gold Monkey - Wikipedia


At least, hip hop happening for me

 

[Nakosis]

When I was 14, Watergate happened, Nixon resigned.

I suppose my distrust of politicians began.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Don't think I was doing much at 14 (1960) - few friends then (came later) - but I was doing quite a bit with the Scouts, including some caving over in the Mendips, and I was probably cycling quite a lot too. Already had a few girlfriends but very short affairs - a longer one came a few years later. The music then was about to change quite a lot.

 

[Quintessence]

I don't remember anything significant when I was 14.

Same, but that is mostly because I do not mark time based on age. My age means nothing to me. It stopped meaning much of anything to me after college, when age stopped being referenced constantly due to being in the school system. If you asked me right now how old I was, I would seriously have to stop and think about it.

 

[Daemon Sophic]

In my 14th year Michael Jackson released Thriller.

CDs were cutting edge technology, and computers didn’t have hard-drives yet.
I got a rifle (.22 cal) for Christmas, which I kept till I was 40. I played a lot of D&D and made some of my longest lasting friendships in my life.

And Argentina went to war with the United Kingdom (in the Falklands).

 

[halbhh]

Tell something about your fourteenth year. In my fourteenth year I learned how to make tiny rockets using matches and aluminum foil.

When I was 14 I got caught up in reading about black holes and neutron stars a lot, and also some friends and I that year started a jazz/blues/rockband that lasted a few years and we had some real fun playing a few small concerts for school assemblies.

 

[BSM1]

I moved back to the real world at fourteen, thereby escaping the crushing grip of poverty that I had to endure for five years previous in rural Appalachia. Also at fourteen I entered a high school that had just admitted the first two Negro (at the time) students in it's history. It was the beginning of an eventful, and sometimes even magical, era.