I think you've been watching too many 'Revenge of the Nerds' movies!
1) I did wear unfashionable glasses 2) I did read a lot & tried earnestly to impress my teachers 3) I didn't often speak over other students BUT I always believed I was right 4) I never dropped my books, we had desks where we stored all our books 5) I was always in love with the 'girl next door' but never made any of them puke (to my knowledge) 6) I often threw paper around the class but was way too smart to get caught doing it! 7) I was picked on but not for being well brought up, more for being a 'lil fatty' 8) I only ever took on the bully once, I ate dirt within the first 10 seconds! (What can I say? I'm a lover not a fighter) 9) Teachers pet a few times but not always. 10) Definitely did not stay at school for an extra year, by the time I was a senior in High school I was SICK OF IT & couldn't wait to leave. 11) Probably not as geeky as some geeks can be. 12) My best subjects were Maths & Science (specifically physics) 13)Doughnuts are using a car to 'draw' doughnut shapes on the road with the cars tires (round & round & lots of smoke) 14) Handbrake slides took place at the reserve next to the lake (in the carpark or on the garssed area, especially after rain, the muddier the better!) 15) I'm sure I made plenty of mistakes, never classed them as regrets cos everything I have done has made me a better, stronger person & how could that be regretable?
I didn't play ice hockey, the kind of hockey we play in NZ is on grass, and its not quite as violent as the kind played on ice, and I only got violent once when an opponent hit me in the shins with his stick long after I had cleared the ball. I was quite angry & my stick went head high, if the coach wasn't there to stop me, it may have been a nasty sight.
Yes I was a geek, not the geekiest of geeks though, kinda 2 steps off geek
Drag racing took place most weekends, if we didn't race we were usually doing donuts or handbrake slides down at the local lake, I never could understand why I spent so much money on Tires!
While I had glasses (the geeky type) when I was a kid, I wasn't a snotty nose kid with big glasses, I don't really know what type of kid I was actually, I spose a 'trekkie' type if I really think about it, I loved sci-fi, computer games & maths.
I realise that I made a slight mistake when I said I had an HJ Holden, cos it was actually an HG (I know it still doesn't mean anything to you but if you search Holden Utes at any stage, you would be looking at a ute I never actually owned)
Music in my late teens....... hmmm, well I was a late adolescent in the 80's - 90's, so I guess I was listening to Rick Astley, Flock of Seagulls, Prince, Bananarama, Cheap Trick, The Police, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper & other such 80's pop. I tried the 'Miami Vice' wardrobe, but it didn't quite work for me, (wasn't cool enough) Most of my life has been jeans & t-shirts.
Did I ever get embarrassed? Well you would have a fair idea now that what other people thought of me was important to me, so yes, it didn't take much for my friends to embarrass me.
And with those last few (embarrassing) confessions, i'll say end of part 7
Friday the 13th is about to end without incident for me, superstition is only as powerful as you make it. Seize the day, with or without luck, you'll be where you're meant to be at the end of it.
I wasn't very good at sport, I was more the 'academic' type, strong on smarts but lacking in skill.
I did play hockey for a few years, I liked it but was never going to join the national team
Always wanted to do martial arts but never had the discipline & didnt believe that the sport would discipline me along the way.
Started smoking at an early age (peer pressure again) and hung out with a bad crowd, a few of my friends were stealing cars before they were able to drive (I never actually got involved with the auto theft) but I did enjoy learning from them what made cars tick.
Developed a love of Holdens at an early age (Australian made car to rival Ford) These days running Chevy engines under the GM logo, Holdens are more closely associated with Pontiac in America & Opel in european countries.
My second car was a Holden HJ Kingswood ute with a 186 straight 6 engine & Crager mag wheels (real steel ones too, not the alloy kind that you get today) and man that thing could go! My sister's boyfriend had a later model Holden Ute with a 253 V8 in it, and although he could beat me on take off, on a flying run we would be even, in fact one time on a 1 mile drag I almost beat him.
So what I became was known as a 'rev head' people saw me as nothing but some jerk who only loves 1 thing better than his car & that was himself! But they were wrong............ I loved my car more than myself!
Could I dance? Yeah I guess so, not that it was cool to do that in my group, we would either race or just sit on the hood of our cars in the street & talk about racing.
But when I was younger, before I liked cars, man I could boogie! My brother used to run a mobile disco in the 70's & I would be his roadie, free entry to each gig, free food & drink & I practiced all the latest moves when my bro would run his playlist before the doors opened. My mates thought I was cool, (which, of course, I was )
The drinking would usually take place at mates houses or parties in the area, never liked the pubs, too much trouble with bouncers, cops & money! Picking up a hip flask or 2 at the bottle store was far cheaper & more to my liking.
The bar was nice, dad built it himself, it took up a whole corner of our family room. Not licensed at all, no one cared about liquor laws back in the 70's & 80's and dad never sold alcohol to anyone, he just stocked the bar & people came to drink. There were many people that would buy more booze throughout the week & drop it off at our place in preparation for the next weekend.
The house was a 5 bedroom homestead, it was the first house to be built in our street & when it was brand new it was surrounded by farm land. When we moved into the house it was on a half acre section, dad later subdivided & sold 1/4 of an acre leaving us with a 1/4 acre section also (still quite large by today's standards) The rear of the section was bordered by a creek & 100 year old macrocarpa trees which we used to tie good strong ropes on & swing like Tarzan across the creek, all the neighbourhood kids would be in our back yard during the summer months.
My parents were fun, everyone who came to our house called them Ma & Pa, they were like parents to the whole town, that was in the good old days, when people respected their community, our doors were never locked & we would often wake up in the morning & find people sleeping on the couch or on the lounge floor, it was common place for our family, mum would wake up about 6am most mornings, count the bodies in the house & start cooking breakfast for all of them, they would wake, sit at the breakfast table, eat & leave to do their days work or whatever. I grew up thinking that was the way life was & everyone did it.
I played trumpet when I was young but soon lost interest when I found out about cigarettes, booze, cars & girls
People of all types would come to our house, we didn't discriminate, if they wanted to join in & they respected everybody in the room then they were more than welcome.
Yeah Jack Daniels is very similar to Jim Beam, both very smooth drinks.
That's part 4, I'm off to pick up my daughter from Netball, bbs
Alcohol was a big part of my family's lifestyle for as long as I could remember, we had our own bar that was always stocked with beer, wine & bacardi. My parents would often let me have a shandi (beer & lemonade) when they were entertaining, it was an acceptable treat back then, alcohol was not such a bad thing as it is now. It was only natural that I would accept drinking as an everyday thing. So when I was 16 I went to a social evening at my boss's place, he had an array of alcohol there & told me his favourite mix was bourbon & L & P (Lemon & Paeroa, world famous in New Zealand) As I had only ever tried Beer, wine & bacardi, I thought this would be a good time to try something new, and I loved it! It was smooth, didn't burn the throat (as some top shelf spirits can do) & at the time relatively cheap to purchase. With all these factors & my lack of will power (and the fact that I have always done what other people do to look cool), it was a given that I would keep up with the bourbon, didn't take long after that to get addicted..
Trying marajuana was a mistake because of the way it made me feel, I couldn't move for 2 hours, I was fully alert & aware of everything around me but had absolutely no power in my body to make even the slightest movements, couldn't talk, couldn't lift a finger, couldn't even move my eyes! - NEVER will I do that again!
Alcoholic days were fun, I had lotsa friends, had a full social calendar & I had lotsa dents in my car, memory loss, ALWAYS broke!, cant remember the amount of times I was late for work! Really enjoyed waking up in strange places & then trying to find my way home, LOVED misplacing my vehicle every weekend (yes I actually lost my car many times)............. barrell of laughs the whole time (sarcastic undertone included)
Lets just say that because of those days I am very aware of how good my life is now.
I grew up in a small town, peer pressure was all we had, either you gave it or you took it! Anyone with an original thought in that town was front page news!!
Unfortunately for me, I was a follower, I believed that if I did what the cool kids were doing then I would be seen as cool too, didn't even stop to think who it would hurt.
Nor did I see that the cool kids weren't so cool.
I personally hated the thrill of getting caught, the guilt was too much, still is, even little white lies haunt me I just can't be dishonest, it's not in my nature.
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Sorry Gilly, how very rude of me!
Happy Birthday Serenity 
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