# I'm back from Baltimore! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2002, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-baltimore/140523 "2002-12-04T21:27:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-baltimore/140523/21 "2002-12-06T05:09:02Z")
Hee hee. I had to take the Towson exit to get to Ben’s house. He went to Glen Burnie H.S., but it was only a couple of years ago. (Ok, fine, so I like younger guys! It’s not a crime! He’s over 21 now!) Just out of curiosity, have you guys ever heard of him? He does comedy in Baltimore. BIG Ben Kennedy. Or his best friend, Truth West, who used to be in a band called Radiant. It is such a small world. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Keith\_Berry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@Keith\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith_Berry)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-baltimore/140523/22 "2002-12-06T05:23:13Z")
I once dated a girl from Glen Burnie, and I sure do have fond memories of all those car dealerships lining either side of Route 2. Just kidding. Maybe it’s a little tacky in some parts, but in my youth I went to more than a few parties down there (I went to Fort Meade High School, and a lot of my friends dated girls from Glen Burnie) and I tell ya, every one of those parties were killer. The MVA down there sucks though. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-baltimore/140523/23 "2002-12-06T12:37:16Z")
> [@](#): > > The MVA down there sucks though. Oh, God, you’re so right about that!! Being born and raised there (well, technically I was born in b-more, but, you know), I never realized how horrible it was til we moved up here to Cumberland. The first time I had to go to the MVA here for something (license renewal, I think), I scheduled in about 4 hours of my time to get it done, cuz that’s what it would have taken in Glen Burnie. I was too shocked when I was in and out in under 15 minutes!! > [@](#): > > He went to Glen Burnie H.S., but it was only a couple of years ago. I graduated from GBHS, class of ‘79. Back then, you could get a contact high from walking into the girls’ bathroom (we were often referred to as “Glen Burnouts”), and I’ve heard the violence and fighting and stuff has gotten a lot worse since then! ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-baltimore/140523/24 "2002-12-06T13:49:31Z")
**norinew** , Ben’s mom graduated from GBHS in '76. I wonder if you know her! Jeez. It seems every day new people join this board, and it just gets smaller and smaller! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-baltimore/140523/25 "2002-12-06T15:02:05Z")
Actually [glaring through her lorgnette] I am a Main Liner . . . But I went to “Tays’n” from 1975–80. Hung out in Fells Point (when it _was_ Fells Point!) with the John Waters crowd. Then I left Balwmer in late '80 and they said, “Well, _she’s_ gone, we can start fixing the place up now.” ---
**Author:** ![YEP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/43a26b/32.png) [@YEP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YEP)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-baltimore/140523/26 "2002-12-06T15:11:59Z")
norinew, wow just missed you by a couple years, but you did go to Corkran with my older sister and maybe brother. Barely remember much of the school or faculty, except the short black haired science teacher. And I had to take home ec. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-baltimore/140523/27 "2002-12-06T15:38:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*Actually [glaring through her lorgnette] I am a Main Liner . . . But I went to “Tays’n” from 1975–80. Hung out in Fells Point (when it _was_ Fells Point!) with the John Waters crowd. > > Then I left Balwmer in late '80 and they said, “Well, _she’s_ gone, we can start fixing the place up now.” \*\* Tays’n State, right? I went there, too, but later. You oughta see it now. The place is freakin’ HUGE. They’ve bought up every building around it and made it either offices or classrooms or residences. Talk about sprawl. And everyone knows not to go to the MVA in Glen Burnie! You go to the one in Aberdeen! The driving test is easier. Eww! Glen Burnie’s gross. (sorry, I’m a Towson snob 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-baltimore/140523/28 "2002-12-06T15:43:08Z")
**Kinsey** , you don’t have a red-haired brother named Dennis, do you? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-baltimore/140523/29 "2002-12-06T15:47:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*. . . But I went to “Tays’n” from 1975–80. Hung out in Fells Point (when it _was_ Fells Point!) with the John Waters crowd. > \*\* “Tays’n” State or “Tays’n” High? From the years you list, I’m assuming TSU. John Waters filmed parts of _Serial Mom_ at my old high school, Towson High. Class of '82. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-baltimore/140523/30 "2002-12-06T15:51:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\ ***Kinsey** , you don’t have a red-haired brother named Dennis, do you? \*\* Nope. You asked me that same question about a year ago. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-baltimore/140523/31 "2002-12-06T15:58:57Z")
. . . Well, I thought you might have taken the hint and _acquired_ one in that time . . . ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-baltimore/140523/32 "2002-12-06T16:36:15Z")
Oh, sorry. I’ll ask Mommy for a baby brother for Christmas straight away. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-baltimore/140523/33 "2002-12-06T18:09:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skerri \* > \*\*Hee hee. I had to take the Towson exit to get to Ben’s house. \*\* Then he lives pretty close to my parents! You’d take the Greenspring Valley exit to get to their place. I grew up in Randallstown, and I remember Dundalk was the butt of many a regional joke. Exactly _why_, I don’t remember; I just remember that if you had to make fun of a city in Baltimore, it was Glen Burnie. Of course, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if the people in Dundalk were making fun of Randallstown the whole time. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-baltimore/140523.md?page=1)