I don’t remember who gave me that advice, unfortunately, it was after the crazy lady. I tell my sons, the first sign of crazy, run, and don’t look back. Words to live by! Based on just that one statement above, I should have done my best imitation of Forest Gump before I got with The …
Month: June 2019
So after dealing with the crazy one, I made a mental decision to move on, and for some reason, my criteria for a new girlfriend was she had to come from a good family. Not sure why I chose that as a reason to pick a girlfriend, but that was one of the things I …
After hanging out on the streets for almost 2 years, getting in lots of trouble, I found The crazy lady who used to live next door on Campbell Avenue. Remember, we sort of had our first date when I was 13 and she was married (Husband split when he realized how nuts she was) and …
Our family was forced to move from the courts, to Campbell Avenue somewhere around 1975, I remember getting cable, and staying up to watch the first SNL show (Oct. 11, 1075). The abuse never stopped here, although more about beating me up, than anyone else. Had a family move in downstairs shortly thereafter, and was …
I attended this program after my probation officer recommended it to me. We did hands-on projects around the city of St. John’s. We did basic electrical, masonry and carpentry. We would do in those programs in our building on O’Leary Avenue as well as different city-owned properties in the city. At one point we actually …
Around the age of 12-14, I basically lived on the streets, hanging around the Queen’s Road area. Did many things to survive, including a bunch of B & E’s. I left my house because I wasn’t going to school, and my old man was on his last few years of being an asshole. Went hungry …
When I was training for my first-year carpentry with “The New Start Project”, we were doing a job at The Nineteenth Hole at Pippy Park, we were in need of a specific tool that we didn’t have, so we dropped by Mount Cashel to borrow one. When we entered the workshop through a side door …