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Name: 2000 Man
E-Mail: latrobe33@gmail.com
Subject: RE:Who were you when you were a teenager? nsc
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2015
Time: 6:37:31 AM
Remote Address: 75.118.20.107
Message ID: 292164
Parent ID: 292123
Thread ID: 292123
Like all teenagers, I was generally a self centered asshole. That's just part of growing up. Teenagers I know and love are the same way, and I think it's just because at that point in your growth, it seems natural that everything revolve around you. I mean, what else is there?
But me, I was a burnout. My dad taught at high school and we came to an early understanding that I wasn't gonna do anything he wanted me to and he was just going to wait and say, "I told you you were smart enough, but you didn't try. Welcome to 13th Grade."
I had a great girlfriend in Jr. High. Mom found a note from her once that was pretty much all about sex and we had a long talk. First time I got high in 8th grade I fell asleep standing up talking to mom. She woke me up at 4 AM and read me the riot act. Later, I'd leave for school on Friday morning and come home Sunday night and my parents wouldn't know what to say when I said, "I got home and you were asleep, and we went fishing every morning so you weren't awake. Did you think I was just "gone" all weekend?"
I dressed like Nirvana twenty years before they happened. I got along with everyone, and in school I was generally polite, I never cheated and my dad would ask how I got an A on a final and failed a class. Turns out, if you don't go to school, they won't pass you. I missed 160 of 186 days one year. In fact, I was four hours late for my first day of high school (Thai Stick - man, did we lose track of time!). Got caught smoking in Jr. High the last day of 9th grade, which was funny because the next year I went to high school, so they suspended me for two hours. That was cool.
I wanted to drop out but two teachers, Ron Schuff and Tom Madzy told me they'd get the school off my back if I'd come back for 13th grade. Ron got the school off my back and Tom (who was the football coach) got me a job that I would go to full time until school started, then I'd go half days. They have both since died, and this world is not as good without them. Ron was one of my derest friend's dad, so I knew him my whole life, in and out of school and it was very unexpected when he died. I think I'm his age now. Tom was the football coach and he had bone cancer (proof that god doesn't exist right there - that's one of the most horrible things to happen I've ever seen). They had a thing while he was still alive, pretty much for the football teams to come and say goodbye. I was in the huge long line, easily the shortest person in it, and when I got there I said that without him and Mr. Schuff, I'd just be some burned out drug dealer mostly in jail. At the time I was in school, working on my associates degree. I took pictures of my family and told him that if it weren't for him and Ron Schuff telling me I was too smart to not even try that I wouldn't have any of that. He knew that Ron had died recently and hundreds of people went to his funeral, and we only had a minute or two to talk, but his wife told my mom after he died that every day he mentioned that I was the only non football player to come, and that it really meant a lot to him that someone thought he was a good teacher. He wasn't just good, he was a really great man and I wish I could kick bone cancer's ass and bring him back.
So I really got off the track there, but let's just say that I didn't go away to college to have sex and try drugs. I was already plenty good at that. I had a baby with The Wonderchick, went to work and because those two guys didn't let me just quit, at some point my dad said, "You just needed some direction and motivation. When you got it, you put a lot of effort into the right things and now you're the kid that never asks me for anything. It really looked like for awhile you'd be the one that I didn't know what to do with." I miss him, too. So I was generally the kid your parents didn't want you to hang out with, but I turned out okay.
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