Good evening friends. The Title of this post is Getting busted in college with another woman in Alabama in the 1950’s as a Brooklyn Jew.
So tonight we have the story of my late father getting busted dating another woman other then his girlfriend during his college days in Alabama in late 1950’s, early 1960’s. Now keep in mind being a Jewish man in Alabama during those years was extremely uncommon. To be more specific, Jews and blacks were not very liked in the South. As i have said many times, my father was very unconventional and extremely eccentric. He wanted to a college that had a big Ra-Ra football team and feel a strong sense of college comradery.
So why Alabama ? Well my late father was not good enough to play football but wanted the traveling life that big college football teams experienced throughout the country. My dad was extremely athletic and very flexible. He had heard Alabama was looking for male cheerleaders that could jump over ten people and do back flips through big hoops, and big jumps and flips on trampolines Crazy cheerleading stuff. So he went from Brooklyn NY to Alabama to try out for the men’s gymnast cheerleading squad and made the cut. So now this young man from Brooklyn was traveling around the country with one of the biggest college Football teams in the country. Man he had a blast. Travelling the country for free and hanging out with the football players like a celebrity.
As time went on, he started exclusively dating this nice gal from Alabama. He was about 21 years old. They got pretty hot and heavy right away and before long were in a serious relationship. Now this young gal did not know my dad was Jewish. When my father told him she almost had a heart attack. The young gal said my dad is going to flip out. My father asked her why, and she said because her father said “Jews have horns coming out of their heads” — So he looked at her and said:”Do you see horns coming out of my head?” She said, “No I don’t” — So my father said to his girlfriend, “Your father is wrong”
So they continued dating and kept “the Jewish thing” on the down low, shhhhhh. Now, you should know my father knew how to put himself together when it came to attire. And his girlfriend became accustomed to his style. But he had this other side where he would dress down like a total slob too.
Well one night out with the his boys and in his Slob Attire, he meets another gal and starts a courtship with her. And from there, my late father Barry Smith was now dating two gals at the same time both thinking different things of him. So between the football team cheerleading, travelling the country, dating two women from Alabama, one who though he was sassy, the other gal who liked his casual jeans and t-shirt look, and one of the fathers thought Jews had horns coming out of their heads, life was very busy to say the least.
So his original girlfriend said to my father, I want you to meet my parents so they can see Jews do not have horns coming out of their heads. My father asked her” Is that the only reason they want to meet me? And once your dad sees that I don’t have horns coming out of my head, can i stay for dinner ?”
So my father goes to his original girlfriends house for dinner so the family can meet “The Jew” — As if this was not complicated enough, when he walked into the girlfriends house, he saw the other gal he was dating on the side. She was the one that answered the door. She said “Barry what are you doing here and why are you so dressed up?” — My friends, the other gal he was dating was the Sister of his girlfriend.
To say the father of the two Alabama daughters that got taken by the Jew from Brooklyn was Irate, would be the understatement of the century. This is where I give my father a lot of credit, despite doing a _hitty thing to these two girls.
He asked the father if he could have a word with him alone. Despite the father having fire coming out of his eyes, he granted my father this private conversation. He said to the father of the two girls; “I’m really sorry, it was a rotten thing to do. I had no idea they were related, and even if they weren’t, I know it was a horrible thing to do.
So the father of the two gals said, “you seem like a nice kid, why did you do this?” — My father said, “because I’m 21 years old, didn’t you do things like this when you were 21 years old?” — And the father of the two gals, smiled and said, “You know what, I probably would have. But unfortunately these are my two daughters and I have to shake your hand and ask you to leave now”
And that was the end of Barry Smith the Sharp dressed man, and Barry Smith the slob’s two girlfriends. Single again, and back on the road with the football team.. Yahoooooooooooooooo.
That’s all friends. Hope you enjoyed this story. And for the youngies that might be reading this, don’t do what my father did. He literally lived by no rules.
Friends quick note, i am not religious at all. But I am not Jewish, I went with my mother who is Italian Catholic. That said, we are very liberal people.
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