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**gomosopions** · 02-08-2012, 03:31 PM

I'm sorry, I didn't know Toledo was your home town. I wouldn't have said that.

I consider Columbus my home town. I didn't live there very long and always make fun of it and wonder why many of my extended family still live there. The people are really nice though.

I was there in 1989 or 1990 when I worked for Fifth Third in Cinti. We bought a bank up there and I was with a very large group working on the conversion. It was February and therefore "Mardi Gras" in Toledo. We were all pretty young and most of us single so we went out one night looking for fun. We were advised by the hotel staff to check out the Mardi Gras festivities at some mall. So we did. There were about 10 people there wearing beads and dancing around a non-functioning fountain in the mall.

It was pathetic.

The most exciting thing about the trip there was the massive destructive accidents on I-75 near Tipp City. That was back in the days before cell phones, and my mother knew I was going there on business. She was home in NJ watching the news and they showed all the accidents and death. We were on the road that day, but were slightly ahead of the carnage. My poor mother was in a panic for hours thinking I was dead. OMG.

02-08-2012, 03:31 PM	#28
gomosopions Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 467 Senior Member	I'm sorry, I didn't know Toledo was your home town. I wouldn't have said that. I consider Columbus my home town. I didn't live there very long and always make fun of it and wonder why many of my extended family still live there. The people are really nice though. I was there in 1989 or 1990 when I worked for Fifth Third in Cinti. We bought a bank up there and I was with a very large group working on the conversion. It was February and therefore "Mardi Gras" in Toledo. We were all pretty young and most of us single so we went out one night looking for fun. We were advised by the hotel staff to check out the Mardi Gras festivities at some mall. So we did. There were about 10 people there wearing beads and dancing around a non-functioning fountain in the mall. It was pathetic. The most exciting thing about the trip there was the massive destructive accidents on I-75 near Tipp City. That was back in the days before cell phones, and my mother knew I was going there on business. She was home in NJ watching the news and they showed all the accidents and death. We were on the road that day, but were slightly ahead of the carnage. My poor mother was in a panic for hours thinking I was dead. OMG.
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