27 Aug 2023 2:16 am
I can work with you.Bruce » 26 Aug 2023, 2:56 pm » wrote: ↑ In May 1973 I weighed about 140 pounds and was 5’6”
All that summer of 73 I drove thousands and thousands of oak fence posts using my great grandfather’s 18 pound fence maul, and dug dozens and dozens of deep holes in the ground for corner and line posts.
Each day my mother fed me heaps of fried chicken and mashed potatoes and gravy and pies or I’d go to Dunnegan where Bea Ellis would feed me double cheeseburgers and fries and pies and meat loaf and I ate so much that summer I gained 35 pounds of hard muscle.
By September I’d grown to 5’10. My bones hurt, I grew so fast.
There was this bully named William at school that liked to knock books out of my hands and call me a Campbellite.
The first day of school, I started to go in Miss Adella’s classroom and William snuck up behind me and knocked the books out of my hands and laughed at me, and said, you dropped your Bible, Campbellite!
I hit him square on his chin and knocked him quite a ways down the hall way.
Johnny was afraid I might of killed him, but he woke up pretty soon, and me and William were friends afterwards, and Miss Adella didn’t see a thing, must have been taking to somebody else.
I learned that day how to turn bullies into friends.
For a brighter future.
