Eighth Grade Begins
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
After our Clearwater, Florida trip, I rounded out the rest of the Summer of 1985 collecting autographs, performing the duties of my paper route, and all of the other things described in my Summer ’85 posting. Occasionally my friend Jeff Flinn and I would bicycle to each others houses and see what trouble we could find. Smoking was often our goal. Other times, we just wreaked havoc around the neighborhood. Once I spit on Bud Nye’s truck when I was collecting for my paper route and they put me off until later. Kelly spotted me doing this from her windown and soon enough, Kenny Carroll was tracking me down, telling me that Bud was driving around looking for me. So I bit the bullet and went over to his house and apologized. Read the rest of this entry »