I was born and raised in a smallish town. It was an OK place to grow up and things went reasonably well for some years. However, like most kids I was a bit confused as to exactly what I was expected to do. Things began to clear up and then I got to high school.
By the time I got to high school, I had already learned that I was expected to finish high school and then get a job to support myself and, probably, a wife.
I tried and failed to visualize how reading the crap they wanted me to read in English class was ever going to get me a job. I knew that memorizing dates in history class was never gonna’ get me a job. All in all, I found only two classes that I thought might be of some use in my future. The two classes were math and auto shop.
I became steadily more rebellious in school and things came to a head just after I turned 16-years-old. I was in English class and I asked a question about this book we had been assigned to read. The teacher wouldn’t answer my question and I politely told her, “Look, you fat, stupid, ugly bitch, I am in this class to learn something useful. If you won’t answer my questions, I am not gonna’ learn.”












