You should’ve seen me trying to woo girls in Poland. Poles are generally anarchists and the girls love boys who break the rules. I would climb the tree outside my future wife’s window and shoot notes through her window with my pea shooter. One day I found a note in my room and that’s when I knew I had found her.
You sure must have been a cute and fun young critter for that girl to keep coming back (lucky for you?)
I had one son cut from similar cloth. Trouble followed him like his shadow! He got bailed outta jail a few times but never quite made it to the big house . But his momma did! She got on the payroll.
Since you did GED, what was your school like? Were you the class clown?
You must have had enough background then from previous public schooling to accomplish it with just a review. Did your writing skills show up then or not until much later? Your essay must have been a good one? Lol.
Holy crwp, Coleman. Deja vu on how it was for me talking cops out of situations, albeit not as serious, nonetheless very bad. In the 1960’s police came down hard on hippies and wannabes. I lived a somewhat privileged life in the midst of intelligentsia near Stanford University. Still hitchhiked when we didn’t have wheels. Spent a summer in a cave in the Santa Cruz Mountains east of Palo Alto, and was with some 20-something longhair trying to get back after a shopping trip (probably for more brown rice). Pot was a felony, and roadside in Skylonda (near LaHonda - Ken Kesey hangout) we were set upon by a sheriff deputy. He looked at our ID’s and radioed in for wants and warrants- none. My buddy Stanley Bates had a backpack: could be open it?
Stanley: No.
Cop: Why?
Stanley: Probable cause?
Cop: Empty your pockets.
Stanley: No. Probable cause, again, officer.
Me: Yeah, no probable cause. (Total wiseass at age 15)
Cop: (Looking at my driver’s permit) OK, that’s enough out of you, Master Meblin. (Master was what adults called juvenile males back then)
Stanley: Are you telling my friend to be quiet?
Cop: Well, Master Bates-
And then we lost it, giggling like children while the deputy got back in his car and gunned it up the road after a speeder.
You always make me grin with these stories
Same. :)
That photo you picked is OK but I picture you in a police station looking more like Charlie Sheen in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
Ooooo, that would've been much better lol
Sheen is a righteous dude
I've been reading you for awhile now. And I love your stories and the way you write. Good stuff! ✌️
Thank you
You should’ve seen me trying to woo girls in Poland. Poles are generally anarchists and the girls love boys who break the rules. I would climb the tree outside my future wife’s window and shoot notes through her window with my pea shooter. One day I found a note in my room and that’s when I knew I had found her.
It could be 100% fabrication, or court-stenographer accurate. But it wouldn't make a difference. This is still a fun story!
Damn! Some pretty savvy negotiating skills for a 15 year old!
Not really. A lot of people talked that way. I was just mimicking behavior
Damn! Some pretty savvy mimicking!
We all are mimicking behavior, but your modesty becomes you well!
That’s how you learn, and that’s what’s important
You sure must have been a cute and fun young critter for that girl to keep coming back (lucky for you?)
I had one son cut from similar cloth. Trouble followed him like his shadow! He got bailed outta jail a few times but never quite made it to the big house . But his momma did! She got on the payroll.
Since you did GED, what was your school like? Were you the class clown?
It wasn't so much a class as a guy went over the practice stuff with me and I took the test eventually
You must have had enough background then from previous public schooling to accomplish it with just a review. Did your writing skills show up then or not until much later? Your essay must have been a good one? Lol.
😂😂😍
No no no. It took a very very long time, I was basically illiterate when we started.
Good for you going after that certificate! It paid off in the end!
Good you didn’t go on to college to study writing! They might have ruined you! 😇
Nah. I just wrote letters for many years lol
Which, I guess, must have been the exact opposite of mimicking behavior...
Way too smart for college, and it would certainly have damaged his gift
You kill me! I wish I had half your balls when I was young. But I was young way longer ago than you were.
That would have been just one giant ball.
Holy crwp, Coleman. Deja vu on how it was for me talking cops out of situations, albeit not as serious, nonetheless very bad. In the 1960’s police came down hard on hippies and wannabes. I lived a somewhat privileged life in the midst of intelligentsia near Stanford University. Still hitchhiked when we didn’t have wheels. Spent a summer in a cave in the Santa Cruz Mountains east of Palo Alto, and was with some 20-something longhair trying to get back after a shopping trip (probably for more brown rice). Pot was a felony, and roadside in Skylonda (near LaHonda - Ken Kesey hangout) we were set upon by a sheriff deputy. He looked at our ID’s and radioed in for wants and warrants- none. My buddy Stanley Bates had a backpack: could be open it?
Stanley: No.
Cop: Why?
Stanley: Probable cause?
Cop: Empty your pockets.
Stanley: No. Probable cause, again, officer.
Me: Yeah, no probable cause. (Total wiseass at age 15)
Cop: (Looking at my driver’s permit) OK, that’s enough out of you, Master Meblin. (Master was what adults called juvenile males back then)
Stanley: Are you telling my friend to be quiet?
Cop: Well, Master Bates-
And then we lost it, giggling like children while the deputy got back in his car and gunned it up the road after a speeder.
I think you meant west of PA. Did you live in EPA or PA?
Ladera.
You certainly were (are?) a piece of work and that’s a sincere compliment.
Our school had 6 teachers for basics and averaged around a dozen inmates each. I taught an addition art class.
Love reading about your escapades.
“Some people do dinner and a movie on dates, I did misdemeanors and felonies instead.“
this checks out
Dang your wife's a keeper! Great writing!
Insightful
As usual, a very entertaining story! 😂😂😂