The kindness of strangers:   during high school the school bus dropped us off at my current boyfriends house at 3:30, his father would be waiting for us, take both of us to his place business.   I worked in the showroom on La Cienega, it was wholesale to the  trade only imports from Italy, Spain, England.  I wrote all the orders from the showroom floor.  I got the chance to have conversations on a causal basis with wonderful people like, William Holden, Gene Roddenbury, (after all this time it's hard for me to remember the spelling of names without looking them up) sports figures , singers.   And not one of them ever treated me like I was just 17 and 18 years old, they always treated me with the same respect to anyone of their own generation.  Now I always remember that at work.