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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (27230)	6/3/1999 6:35:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I was ridden pretty hard as a child. I'd have blips of rebellion but I didn't want to hurt my parents. My best one was my senior year in high school. Lord of the Flies. I thought it sucked but the teacher was hung up on the mud. Term paper due May 1st was about the mud. I didn't write one. Got threatened with a lower grade and still didn't write one. Got called to the principal's office and there sat my mother. Now I was getting a real case of the ass. "Young man, you don't turn in a 5 page type written report to get your F you won't graduate." Ish "So?" Principal G. Elwood ,,," You are in our advanced program and it would ruin it if you didn't graduate." Now we was talkin'. I took a piece of paper and wrote my name on it and Lord of the Flies, handed it to him and asked for a B. Got it. Later, when I worked for my father, which was a long way from what I wanted to do, I got the "it might hurt business" stuff. After a golden opportunity to sell the business that made my dad's retirement great, I realized that being in stocks and farming I had to kiss no one's ass. In retail you can't offend anyone for fear of losing customers, no matter how wrong they may be. Farm income and playing the market gives a freedom. "You don't do this and I'll quit buying from you." Ish " I'm in farming, quit eating. I'm in the market too so quit buying gas, electricity and medicine. I still won't notice it." I have gone from being a Milquetoast to a pain in the ass and I love it. You have too, you can't. There's two phrases that trip my trigger. I have to die and I can't live forever. Anything else is subjective to what I want.