Rock climbing's not something I ever did or knew anything about. I am a big city boy. It's not something I ever even heard of until my time in Hawaii and California. After I'd been in Hawaii a while, some guy who'd grown up in California asked me if I wanted to go rock climbing that weekend, and I was like, "What?"

A couple other things that caused jaws to drop when I was in Riverside: I had never eaten Mexican food and could not drive a car. That last one was really considered mind-blowing. I had always lived places where there was lots of public transportation and this wasn't considered too unusual. John Ruane said he was going to have somebody take me out and teach me some weekend, but it never happened.

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If you find it hard to imagine Joanie as a C/S, I think I know where you're coming from with that. :-)
After I posted the above remark about Joanie as a C/S, I got to thinking it sounds a little 1.1. (30 years later, scientologese is still handy sometimes.) I don't mean to put Joanie down, who as I said earlier I actually liked, even if she did get on my case a lot. I only meant that she didn't exhibit the personality type of other C/S'es I saw, who seemed more distant, ivory tower types. Joanie seemed a lot more extroverted, is maybe the word for it.

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