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Our parents let a friend and myself miss the last day of school (4th grade for me; 3rd for my friend) back in June '84 to go down to the old defunct Atlanta train station to be extras in a Michael J. Fox made for TV movie called Poison Ivy (not to be confused with the Drew Barrymore movie made much later) about kids going to summer camp. It co-starred Nancy McKeon (Jo from The Facts of Life). I got to meet Michael J. Fox who was actually not much taller than me at the time if I remember correctly. The train station portion of the movie was when all the kids were leaving for camp and only lasted about 10 minutes in the movie. In the finished movie, I think we ended up barely being able to see myself a couple of times (the back of my head wearing my orange Orioles baseball cap as Michael J. Fox's "camp counselor" rival had water balloons tossed down on his head by a guy on a ladder which was cut in the final movie to make it seem as if M.J. Fox had tossed the balloons down from the roof of the station; another quick shot of me dribbling a basketball past the camera in a group shot of a bunch of kids). It was a pretty fun day and I got a check for $47 bucks (funny how I remember the exact amount) for being an extra.
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Persuaded, paraded, inebriated, and down
Still aware of everything life carries on without
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