On Monday, OnMilwaukee.com Publisher Andy Tarnoff posted a blog asking, "Where were you in ‘82?" The simple question brought back a vivid childhood memory.
I clearly remember watching the game with my mom -- who wasn’t usually a baseball fan -- and my sister, in our cozy Shorewood bungalow. My dad was at the game with a friend.
When Robin Yount made the final out, my mom jumped up and said, "Let’s go!" I wasn’t sure what she meant, but I liked her enthusiasm, and before I knew it, the three of us piled into our Ford Escort.
My mother zipped down Oakland Avenue -- driving well over the speed limit -- and honked the horn until it was a continuous drone. My sister and I cheered and giggled in the back seat. We wouldn’t act this reckless in a vehicle again for another seven or eight years.
My mom drove Downtown, only to lodge our Escort in a major traffic jam with scads of other honking and screaming fans. After a few minutes of Wisconsin Avenue mayhem, the horn went from an obnoxiously loud blaring sound to a sick goat bleat to absolute silence.
It took a good six months for my dad to have the horn fixed. Normally, my dad is the type of person who would have been right on it, but like a lot of baseball fans, he has a nostalgic side. My theory is that he left the broken horn just so he could relive the glory every time someone cut him off.
Molly Snyder started writing and publishing her work at the age 10, when her community newspaper printed her poem, "The Unicorn.” Since then, she's expanded beyond the subject of mythical creatures and written in many different mediums but, nearest and dearest to her heart, thousands of articles for OnMilwaukee.
Molly is a regular contributor to FOX6 News and numerous radio stations as well as the co-host of "Dandelions: A Podcast For Women.” She's received five Milwaukee Press Club Awards, served as the Pfister Narrator and is the Wisconsin State Fair’s Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Champion of 2019.
