Memorable Events during the 1970s

1970: Awarded for achieving First Class Scout with my Troupe at Hope Lutheran Church

1970: While shutting down after recess in the gymnasium, my friend Rusty squashed me between a rolled up floor mat and the wall it was rolled up against.

May 1973: Received an Award for participation in Spanish Club.

May 23, 1973: Received an Award for participation in 9th Grade Band

May 23, 1973: Received an Award for participation in the Smart Set Club.

1973: Met a friend north of my school and realized that his younger sister took a liking to me for reasons I wasn't quite sure of.

May 1974: Received a Certificate of Merit for the performance of a Snare Drum Solo.

1974: Required to provide a colonic to my brother before he went to bed. After greasing a plastic stopcock with petroleum jelly for the delivery of one pint of lukewarm water, I asked if he'd like to do it for himself and he said: "No, mom always does it for me".

1975/76: While working on pull-ups for upper arm strength, my friend from Hay Lake and I decided to use the term 'Corn' as a code word for Marijuana.

1975/1976: Trauma resulting from loading sod onto a pallet leads to my first encounter with repetitive strain injury, so I learned to lift the sod with my wrist.

April 1976: Received Certificates of Merit for the performance of a Snare Drum Solo and Snare Drum Duet.

1976: Felt up by my boss while on the tractor where I loaded the sod.

1976: Noticed that my boss's daughter expressed a fondness towards me, but by this time, I was aware of the fact that her affection had more to do with an attachment of mine, than me.

1975-76: Someone else signed my name on the signature line of my paycheck while I was working on the sod farm.

1976: Beaten-up by the side-kick of 'the boss', who told me not to be a spokesperson for the crew.

1977: Induced polyploidy by treating marijuana plants with colchicine during my first year of college (I also grew marijuana above the sand pit where we rode our motorcycles, by one of the sod fields in Washington County).

Spring 1978: Went with a friend to get a job out West, though I thought we'd both get hired, he didn't, which is most likely due to my own assumptions and which cost him time and money for travel out there and back.

Summer 1978: Lost all my belongings when I left to spend a weekend with my family (the thief defecated in my hard hat and wiped with one of my socks).

Fall of 1978: Went to work down South for a while and witnessed my step mother peel the scab off my half brother's penis after his circumcision. He cried, but there was nothing I could do about it. I don't really know why I had to see that happen, but the shock of that encounter cast me into doubt about the whole industry of modern medicine.

1978: While working for a restaurant in the area, I was required to take a lie detector test (someone stole silverware from the facility).

1979: Drug and alcohol induced spiritual experience while fishing on a lake with a friend.

1979: Walked off the job when required to spread feces from my old neighborhood onto a sod field in Stillwater.