hemiram
Active Member
I went over to my allergy doctor/former neighbor's house to look at an old radio one of his son's had for sale. His dad came home and I got to hear his system, with HUGE tower speakers ( Don't remember the brand or model, but the bass was about as good as it could be in 1970) playing "Night on Bald Mountain" and I was pretty much hooked at that point. I don't remember all the brands of equipment he was using, but I remember seeing McIntosh amps. I wish I could have stayed longer, but he was generally a disagreeble type of guy, but a great doctor, and I wasn't comfortable talking to him outside the office back then. If he would have been a nicer guy, I would have been over there a lot. I decided when I was 17 that to continue the allergy shots I had been taking for over a decade weren't needed anymore, and when I told him I wouldn't be having them anymore, he went off on me, yelling, "You'll be back next spring!". He was wrong, with the exception of my insanely over the top reaction to cut grass and any kind of pine tree, I was pretty much allergy free for 25 years, until I was eating dinner in my truck and they came roaring back. Claritin took the edge off and I don't take anything for them now, unless I think there is a chance of going to someone's house with a Christmas tree in close proximity, then I take Benadryl and suffer through it. Without taking it, in a couple of hours I'm a total wreck.