Quote from: philipma1957 on Today at 03:39:12 AM

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Quote from: philipma1957 on Today at 12:21:43 AM

Man I have a lot of drug stories from

1972 first use of illegal drug. 15 years old.
to
1991 last use of illegal drug. 34 years old.

Fuck I think I could write 500 pages of stories.

Add in the gambling from 1961 to 1992. 1000 pages of stories. Yeah I started young with gambling.

You started gambling when you were 4? That's impressive Shocked

Hahaha

One way to kick a bad habit early is to start early.

Okay my 4 year old gambling story. I was the youngest kid in kindergarten. In September 1961 I was 4 years and 8 months old.

We went to a school in Brooklyn. So the game I was taught was flipping baseball cards. There where multiple versions one was matching colors of hats on the players. I am colorblind so I was playing a game that I absolutely could not win. I would lose all my cards every single time. When I asked to play other versions of flipping base ball cards. Ie a finger flick with multiple rotations on the way to the ground landing heads or tails. No one would play that and not knowing a freaking thing about compulsive gambling I had to play to get even. It took me a long time to learn to not play that game of matching for colors. Roll Eyes

. Plenty more stories after that one.

If we are going to start telling stories about how dumb we were when we were kids, there's no end to that. Am I not right?

O.k. I will tell one of my multiple dumb stories. I recall that when I was in fourth grade, I sold magazines and fruit to raise money (for some school club or something), and we would be able to use our earned points to buy guns and knives and things like that. So, I recall that I had bought a folding knife with some of my earned points (it was like the left over points), and when I got the knife and I had it at recess, I was showing one of the kids that "it's not even sharp" by testing it on my left hand.

Many years later, I still have that scar from that which required 5 stitches. I have dumber stories than that one, but hey.. it's as good of a dumb story from me as any.