LOL. Growing up with a millionaire daddy probably tends to have that effect.
If life includes growing weed, and I think for most of us it does, there may be a few life lessons to be learned here that are not in any of those movies, great as they may be. Just one guys opinion. 
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I haven’t seen this movie in a long time but quite enjoyed it.
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Saw it, good movie.
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The Karate Kid films were so much fun to watch growing up. It made you feel as if you could take on the bullies just like Daniel-San.
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Not the entire movie. But about the first half hour, is frickin hilarious.
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Hard outta likes.
Certainly at least some of the time.
I went to school with a lot of kids whose parents were seriously wealthy, some generationally. I could tell you so many fucked up stories.
When a kid on our (I was a gymnast) gymnastics team turned 16, his folks gave him a new Mercedes Benz 230SL. It was powder blue. He complained loudly to anyone who would listen that what he really wanted was a gull wing, but it was out of production. Spencer was a serious asshole, not unlike lots of other kids I went to school with. He had nothing on the Bradbury girl, whose name escapes me. It’s not like we dated! Thankfully! 
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Where did you attend High skewl?
Hamilton High in Los Angeles. At the time, about half the student body lived in Cheviot Hills. It abuts Beverly Hills.
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Man, that’s a gorgeous car. Once upon a time, my grandfather had a gold Gullwing. He was seriously wealthy until 2008, then just regular wealthy.
He passed last month, but MAN do I have some stories to tell about him. He was president of a pretty large company at one point, and was a million-miler on Delta and American. He lived enough for a hundred lifetimes.
Speaking of stories, he sold that 300SL in the early 90s to Robert Cade, the inventor of Gatorade.
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That’s funny, I’ve got a Hamilton and a Cheviot right near me. Nowhere near LA, though. LOL
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True Romance, such an amazing movie with Christian Slater and chicken shitted “Balkie” (from an old sitcom) gets shot as informer.
‘Call an Ambulance!’
‘You’ll need a hearse!’
It’s hilarious!
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Bishop O’dowd had its share of generationally wealthy too. First time i saw cocaine he made an M 4 me to snort. The wealthy taught me drugs. Wrong crowd to learn from for a Serf.
ET was a great flick
I so hate being outta likes at times like this!
I parked cars for a very short time at The Millionaire’s Club in Hollywood. I got to park a gull wing once! It was so exciting for a kid! No shit.
I’m sorry for your loss if you were close to him. Hang onto those stories you have about him. They’ll be gold later in your life.
@slippy790, interesting they’re both near you.
I believe that! I think I liked them, at least the first one, as much as my kids did when we saw it shortly after it opened.
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Every croptober when I’m in trim jail I marathon Lord of the rings and Star Wars in chronological order over a weekend. Usually gets me through lol
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Thank you for your condolences. I was very close with him; it was rough, but without going into too much detail, it was about time. Alzheimer’s and the things that come with it, like the “memory care” facility, aren’t fitting for a man of his caliber.
Not that anyone deserves it, but sometimes it seems like that stuff gets reserved for the very best of us, for whatever reason. 
On a lighter note, that sounds like a KILLER job for a teenager. How’d you end up there? What other cool stuff did you get to park?
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Some of my favs:
Heat
Falling Down
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
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It was, but I only did it for less than two weeks.
A rich kid I knew from school got me the job. He also parked cars there, but I think he did it for fun. He’d take members’ cars out and drive 'em around, and as fun as that sounded, there wasn’t a snow ball’s chance in a non-existent hell that I would have risked going to jail for something that stupid. And I was getting high by that time!
The Gullwing was the coolest vehicle I got to “drive” 
/park. At least one Rolls Royce a night wasn’t uncommon. I’m sure there were at least a few of what we would today call exotics too, I just don’t recall them particularly. Just that Gullwing.
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Out of many, I will mention this one.
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