Me Growing Up

Me Growing Up

updated 9/4/99

So you want to know about me when I was younger.. ... huh....Boy you people are nosy...lol...ok, I'll try not to be boring here...

Ok where to start....hmmmmmm
I was born a poor black child...Ohhh wait that was Steve Martin....I was born a poor white child...

I was born in brockton MA. It once was nice, but now I don't think so. It was home of Rocky Marciano and Marvin Haggler, both boxers. Brockton is about 20 miles south of Boston.I was a happy kid as you can see in the little film clip of me dancing there...

I grew up in a pretty good size family...3 brothers 1 sister...Ya, 5 of us..I'm next to youngest..We got along great...Just like cat and mouse...Except there were more than one mouse in that house!

We lived in an old house...I think it was built in 1721. It had all the old creeks any house that age would...and maybe more??? It sat on an acre and a half of land. It was amazing as I grew to see everything grow up around me. the town I gre up in basicly just disappeared.

I grew up lovin gardening...Are family had a vegtable garden each year. About 1 acre. None of the other kids liked it, but I did.
We did also have a couple cows and a pig one year, But the neighbors didn't take kindly to that. For some reason they had a proble when they seen a cow running down the road. Or just the smell. You got to remember, this house was old. It had been a farm for a long time. But a city did grow around it.

I worked in one job or the other from 12 years old on. As I said, I like gardening and plants. So I went to work for a florist, then a couple greenhouses. when I was 16: or there abouts, I started my own greenhouse and sold plants and vegtables in front of the house....OOPS...Another no no from the nieghbors. They didn't want any form of buisness in the neighborhood.
(as you can see, we had great neighbors.)

Well graduation year came....Yes I graduated..And that was the year the greenhouse burnt down. To say the least I lost interest. So I went to work for a convinient store...after a few typical problems with that, I decided to move...A fight with dad helped a little...(don't worry we made up in the end) Thats when I moved to houston. 19 and 1500 miles from home...That worked all of 4 weeks or less...ran out of money...2 choices move back home, or go to Florida to see gramps. Well Florida...HERE I COME!!

So on to Florida I went. By bus, ohhh god never will I do that trip again. Ever ride the greyhound. Be better off riding the dog. I thought I was strange at times....NOT!!!!! And slow. That's A slow way to travel. As I said not again.

Gramps was great. He taught me how to live. Got me a place. It was a room in somebody's house $35 a week. And he paid the first 2 weeks. What A guy. Then he found me a job. Or helped me find one. Makin just over minimum wage. Once again, what a guy. this all happened in less than a week. Now remember I'm broke...NO CASH. Gramps does one more thing...Gives me something like $10 to eat with till first check. Not badfor a week and a half. One last time, what a guy. He fed me on sunday, and let me know how much I owed $103.45. I tried to pay him $105 and told him keep the change. Nope, couldn't do that. He gave me my change. And yes I had A lot of peanutbutter and jelly for that week and a half.

I joke a lot of that time in my life but I must say the man did teach me how to live. And that I am thankful for. He made me grow up in a hurry and stop being the kid I was.

Okay to move a long a little quicker, I worked for G.C.Murphy company...became an assistant manager. Lost that job cause the manager felt the job was more important than family. Told him I wanted to go see my other grandfather at christmas, felt it would be my last cance to see him alive. The boss said no...Job more important. I sad ok u have my 30 day notice. I quit. I went up north and seen him....7 months later he past away. Glad I went till this day.Screw the job.

Got a job at publix. Went good, then I got hit by a car. Back injury....BUMMER!!! Got a job with pizza hut...Got into drugs bad....REAL BUMMER!!! Got cancer while working there...NOW LIFE REALLY SUCKED!!!!! Thats when I met spidey. We were both ito drugs and we quit together. Guess you could ay we used a buddy system, and it worked.

So to escape the trouble, we moved to massachussette. there we got jobs and enjoyed it for 7 months or so. Then on Oct 1st they forcasted a dusting to an inch of snow. Okay a little early for snow. And I liked snow. At least I DID. the snow started arond midnight, and stopped around 7 am. 14 INCHES...A DUSTING???? We moved back to Florida soon after.

So now back in Florida. Need a job. Had an offer to be an electrician. Hell no, I new nothing. But it was a job. So I took it and here I am. Not the greatest; but as I said, it pays the bills.

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