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By GreatMartin
@GreatMartin (23671)
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
November 28, 2019 8:49pm CST
11th Leap Year Birthday February 29, 1980 South Florida
I returned to South Florida in 1979 and got an apartment right off I-95 and Davie Boulevard. Two blocks west was the restaurant/bar called the Sandpiper. I quickly became friends with the bartender Bruce and some of the regular customers like ‘Teacher Mike’, ‘Movie Mike’, ‘Ice Skater Mike’ and Gino. The bar was unique in the sense that the whole top of a long u-shaped bar was the top of a fish tank! You try having a few scotch on the rocks on top of fish!
In any case I had my eleventh Leap Year birthday there and I still have the “Happy Birthday” round pin that I wore all night.
The three Mike’s have passed on but I have many pictures and memories of the 3 of them. Guess where I had my 12th Leap Year birthday party? Just keep reading!
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@florelway (23355)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
29 Nov 19
When do you celebrate the other 3 years
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@GreatMartin (23671)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
2 Dec 19
I don't celebrate the in-between years but I make up for it when it does come around!
@celticeagle (171080)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Nov 19
We used to have a fancy restaurant here called The Sandpiper. This fish tank you described sounds very cool. Happy next Leap Year to you.
@FourWalls (71245)
• United States
4 Dec 19
They let you into a bar at the age of 11? My, my. 
I'm enjoying these (now that I'm getting around to reading them....
)!!!
I'm enjoying these (now that I'm getting around to reading them....)!!!
@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
29 Nov 19
What was an 11-year-old doing hanging out at a den of iniquity called the Sandpiper?
@jstory07 (141632)
• Roseburg, Oregon
29 Nov 19
So do you add a year every four years. You would stay younger longer that way.
