Friday5- How did you learn that?

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Friday 5 for May 13: How Did You Learn That?

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How did you learn to throw a ball?
I learned by throwing rocks.  We lived on two and half acres of river bottom land, flood plain if you will, and we learned by throwing rocks.  Later, we threw balls at school.

How did you learn to drive?
I learned to drive on the San Gabriel River bottom.  There were all sorts of roads, sandy dirt, in the river because there wasn't much water most of the time.  I learned to handle a truck on those roads.

How did you learn to swim?
I learned to swim, on top of the water, in a pool in the desert.  I just took off across it one night and swam across the surface.  Up to that time I swam underwater and just came up for air once in awhile.  Not real swimming, that.

What is the most recent thing you learned how to do from an online tutorial?
How to give a warm oil lymphatic leg massage.

How did you learn most of your social etiquette?
From my mother and maternal grandfather, who taught his four daughter's the finer points of English manners from his own upbringing as a son of wealthy Canadians.  Grandfather had beautiful English manners, and so did my mother.  My grandfather had the most gorgeous handwriting as well.  I have some letters of his that he wrote to my mother.

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