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HIGH SCHOOL HIGH-JINKS?

or just

HELL ON WHEELS ?

read the book...

Now this part tells of MANY TYPICAL occurrences in the life of a teenager.

Like loosing ones virginity with a girl named, "Stinky box wholfiler"(THATS THE TRUTH! lol ), and here I had a cast on my right foot from a break in SCRIMMAGE! in JV football PRACTICE of all things,and as I was "mounting"her,I swung my "casted" foot up and over only to come crashing down to BREAK HER TOE! lol lol (romantic ,yes?), and having the condom break at our climax! and here I had walked 1 mile to a local "ZODY'S" store (back then like a TARGET store today) ON CRUTCHES!!!!!!!!just to be safe for my FIRST SEXUAL ENCOUNTER! lol lol .......

Feeding BBQ RAT meat to my science teachers, and be complimented on it taste! (they didn't know what they ate! I had told them "rabbits", from our Lab Specimens, only my favorite Biology teacher "MR. KLIKINECK", knew! and He didn't tell them! He thought it was too funny! He knew rite off from the bone structures!

---Getting forced into sex with a septuagenarian.---

Almost getting caught having sex with a neighbors wife, and meanwhile standing in the shower stall as he took a piss with his back to me after coming home drunk only to stagger off to bed and pass out before I could escape! (think "The Pink Panther"), with Robert Wagner in the shower stall as Inspector Clouseau putzed around in the bathroom.(lol) ( remember I'm 14 yrs. old now and now I'm big.(growth hormones kicked into OVERDRIVE. so did my SEX DRIVE!)) .

Having sex on, and falling off of a Honda 250cc.scrambler motorcycle down a 50' gully in the mountains as a car came around the turn.

Making out in the back seat of my 56' push-button drive Plymouth as my date and I were at a drive-in playing "Birdman of Alcatraz"and have her Dentures pop-out!

Or running away from home for the first time.

As a runaway from Home for the first time , hearing AND seeing, "The RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS" and their NEW RELEASE, "LITTLE LATIN LOUPYLOU". or "DICK DALE and the DEL TONES"at the RONDEVU BALLROOM in Balboa Beach,Calif.

Meeting SHELLY FABRE, while working on a harbor tug as She was filming for, "The DONNA REED SHOW"

As a runaway , registering myself into CORONA DELMAR HIGH SCHOOL so as to still acquire my education AND get 2 part-time jobs to support myself as I attended school, AND RENT(!)an APARTMENT!!!!!!!!

Being caught as a juvenile runaway by an Officer Gomez, and as I had to wait for my parents to come retrieve me , He ACTUALLY APOLOGISED TO ME for having to bring me in!!!!!!!

He told me that I was the ONLY juvenile EVER, that He had EVER had encountered that installed himself back in High School, maintained good grades, gotten 2 part time jobs, and rented an apartment AND stayed out of trouble, to boot! (He met my parents and understood why I ran away!).

Meeting my First NYMPHOMANIAC(!) on Balboa Island in a record store, (for a JEWISH kid at the age of 16 who had the opportunity to DIDDLE a blond haired,blue eyed, shickza, who just LOVED to SCREW(!), this was a gift of MANNA from on high!!!!!!!!!), albeit, I was ALMOST caught by her father when he came into her room because he heard noises. (she was in bed under the covers , I was in the closet behind a pile of clothes until he left!), whereupon I left at the crack of dawn leaving Thur the window having to "CRAWL" and stagger 3 blocks to the ferry to get across the channel to my apt., to REST! (HEY! even at 16, SUPERMAN had his limits! ).

Or meeting THE REAL "LONE RANGER" from the old TV Series at the channel mouth one day as I pondered my future, and we talked......WOW, what a guy!

Or meeting ANDY DEVINE from the TV series "THE WILD BILL HITCHCOCK " TV show!

Or meeting BUDDY EPSON from "THE BEVERLY HILLBILLYS", what a sweet man!

Or graduating 2 yrs. early from high school, (did I mention that I was considered intelligent?) and getting a parental consent form signed to move out of the house, and move into a room the size 15'x5', and happy as a clam at high tide!

Or hearing about the ASSINATION of PRESIDENT KENNEDY as I was running stock at my after school job at "KINNEY'S SHOE STORE" and seeing my jerk-off, hard-assed boss cry like a baby as he heard the news on the radio news bulletin.

Or going to college and pledging the Fraternity "OMICRON DELTA NU" ,WE WERE THE "ORIGINAL"BAD BOYS ON or OFF CAMPUS! lol. We were kicked off-campus 2 times. Long before the movie "ANIMAL HOUSE", and for ALL the same reasons! (GOD BLESS ALL MY " O-D-N" BROTHERS OUT THERE!).

Or watching the "WATTS RIOTS" on TV and having 2 of my buddies who had bikes as well,(motorcycles), ask if I wanted to go down to WATTS and "check it out!", I declined, Harvey was arrested for being at the WRONG place AT the WRONG time, Billy was hospitalized for being a dumb-assed white boy in a black city of turmoil!

Or working 56 hrs. at an all-nite gas station and taking a full scholastic load at college and still not having enough money for a Biology Text. and after asking my mother for some assistance in its purchase, turning me down and saying she would not help!, saying that she didn't have the money to spare. (CRAP! the woman was f--king RICH! what with the portfolio that my Father had left her and with the various settlements from 2 previous divorces and this third and current "SCHLEP", who had his own meat packing company! (no pun!) remember that I had said that she went "MACHUGANA" after Fathers death! And turned into a really twisted woman!).

Or wondering , "What is this thing called VIET NAM"?", that we keep seeing on TV?

"What's a POLICE ACTION?"

Why did 5 of my classmates "knock-up" their girlfriends and get married SO fast?

What's a "DEFERMENT"?

What's the "DRAFT"?

Why were 7 of my classmates Killed In Action?

Why did 3 of my "FRAT BROTHERS",suddenly have a REALLY small goodbye party and leave for Canada so fast?

Why did 3 of who I thought to be my "best-est friends" come over late one night to bring me my mail? and when I opened it , it started with the words,"GREETINGS, FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ..................."....................AND WHY DID I THINK IT WAS REAL?????? hell I was only 17 ! (6 years later I found out that they meant it as a joke and really didn't think it would elicit such actions on my part!

Or why, after they left that night, were my hands shaking as I packed my backpack with underwear, jeans, Homer, Hemingway, a ream of note paper, a packing quilt from a moving van and $200.

Or why, after midnight , as I sat on my Honda 250c.c. scrambler and a full tank of gas, was I crying?

THE ROAD.................

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FAMILY? or DIS FUNCTION?
read the book..............

For some inexplicable reason a cadet named Micheal Plemons and I started to acknowledge each other and start to hang out together. I really don't know why? but we did.

He looked like a barrel, Me? I looked like a sandbag shaped to look like a watermelon,(go figure!). At any rate we became friends. As the jester of the universe would have it? we introduced our parents together.

BUT I DIGRESS.

As things turned out , I was now taken to live at home out of P. A. . During this time it came to my awareness that I had more "uncles" then I knew I had! There was "uncle Harry", He ran the local hardware store,"uncle Charles", He owned the local drugstore, oh , and lets not forget "uncle Ray" , I have no idea what he did., but they ALL had one thing in common, they All came to the back door! That's when I slept on the "I LOVE LUCY" couch in the living room. That was fine by me, cause then I could watch that magnificent ,19" black and white ,console R C A TV with 500 knobs (only 3 worked! off/on, channel select, and the other that made the picture flutter up or flutter down. gawd but I got sick looking at that! I loved it ! )

THE FABULOUS 52 what a show!!!!!! meanwhile mother was bumping uglies in the bedroom.

OK FOLKS . i WANNA GET OUT OF HERE AS MUCH AS YOU DO. So suffice it to say that Micky and I introduced our parents together , they married and out popped Blair Alan and Alana Viola.(remember that I said I was the first of 3 issues?)

During this time I was placed in my First PUBLIC Junior High school .

Now we'll have some fun! lol lol

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WEEK-END MILITARY SCHOOL SHOWOFF DAYS.......(see how good we treat your kids?)...........................
( Believe me folks, I want to get out of this 12 year old world as much as you do ! I want to runaway to THE WORLD SO MUCH! Just bear with me for a few more installments? lol ).

OK , so here comes my attempt to curry favor with Capt. Beauchamp by introducing him to my mother.(actually I was tired of being knuckled on the head for questioning authority).
At this point I should state that my mother was released from LA-LA LAND and was now living in her own flat. And unbeknownst to me,she had another life .(Hey! that's what grown-ups do! Right?)

As it happened on this Sunday , mother came to see how her ward was doing and do her matriarchal duty by sitting in the bleachers with the other ........parents (?),to be seen by THEIR wards.

After chow, inspection,suit-up, formations and drills, just to show off how well we were trained. (wolf! wolf!) , we were then dismissed either to run like rockets to our parents or to drift like lost waifs in a wind! Me? I would rather go read a book...., but on this Sunday, mother came to be seen by one and all, did I mention that she could have passed for the twin sister of RITA MORENO?(more on that piece of parental DRECK. (Yiddish again,=shit!)) As she came to me and pay her respects, Capt. Beauchamp zeroed in on her like a dog in lust!( I would have phrased it as "a bitch in heat", but that mainly pertains to bitches, and my mother hadn't attained that stature .......yet.) At any rate Beauchamp would come over with his CLARK GABLE looks and really hit on my mother, and in time acquired a date for drinks with her which led to more................

You see, the woman that emerged from that institution was NOT the same woman that gave birth to me! by the time that this narrative is taking place , my mother has had 2 husbands and I have acquired 1 step-sister.Lupi by name, and we became very good friends in time, and for life, until the night the whole family was killed on Christmas Eve. More on our adventures a bit later. You'll love 'em!

At this point I was allowed to come home for the week ends more to be a witness then protection,(HEY! I'm 11, 5'2'', 38"waist, 178lbs.what could I do? sit on an aggressor? ), as I came to think about it in later times And I remember, we , both she and I never spent those week ends at our house but always at some female friend single mother she had met at P.A. (HEY! GIRLS GOTTA HAVE FUN TOO! RIGHT?)right............and yo mama to boot!

A strange thing would occur in the mornings that i never had seen when mother had come out of the bedroom when Father was alive. she would come out wearing make-up............apparently they weren't only bumping uglies , but it seemed that Capt. Beauchamp was also BUMPING her! Its no wonder that only after her 2'ND and last date with him, he started, REALLY started knuckling my head for no apparent reasons!

Well enough of this maudlin DRECK lets go on to how Micheal and I became step-brothers and mother met and married her 4'Th and final husband,(to my knowledge.).

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.............................CALIGULA.....................................at P.A.............................................
On those nights that Capt. Winters took the kids of special interest to his room,(only 1 per night!), I would sneak over to and alternately put my ear or my eye to the keyhole to look and listen to his words and actions.In his little WILLIE WONKA WORLD of his 10'x15' room. He had his H.O. train set running around track flats on the walls to bring the kids at ease and not think much of any punishments that might or might not happen.He would alternately either give them candy or let them play with his H O Train set to put them in a total comfort zone.
At this point he would get around to mentioning that he(the kid), was seen playing with himself and ask the dumb kid if he had enjoyed it? The kid would answer something like,"yeah, sure , I guess." Whereupon Capt.Winters, this sick,deranged fuck(!)would ask the kid to show him how he played with himself.(!) Inevitably the kid would get a hard on the size of a Vienna sausage from those little cans, and the ludicrous part was that Winters was not much bigger! (lol!)!
It got to the point that I could tell what was going to happen depending on which kid went into his room. Whether it would be FELLATIO or depending on the kids size,(NO PUN!), it would be SODOMY! I can't , no I won't mention any names of the kids seeing as how they still may be alive today as high placed political officials in California government TO THIS DAY! But I digress.
What gets me is that parents of the 50's NEVER BELIEVED US KIDS IF WE TOLD WHAT WAS HAPPENING AT BOARDING SCHOOLS!!!!!!!!!!! Who could we turn to? Tell the police and they would scoff at children! then they would tell our parents and then THEY would begin to either do a tap dance on our heads or bring out the belt! (YES , THE BELT!).
Now how does one make a segway from this?............
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DEMERITS...................at Pedophile Academy !

Now don't go thinking that those Demerits went by untallied. NO! The totals were kept scrupulously by the child officers and turned every night to the adult officers at the end of the day to be dealt with at their desecration.(and I mean ....At Their Own Desecration!)

The greatest offender of authority and trust was one Capt. Winters!( remember him? )I have no qualms at this point in time in giving his name for you see that at the age of 12 HE seemed really OLD .....at least 35 or 40, and by now he has to be dead, so there can be no ramifications now.

This is taking me some time to compose so bare with me................

At nights and after free time ,we were called to formation , read off information for the marrow then dismissed to troop off to our dorms.Once in our dorms and changed into our PJ's . We would stand at attention at the foot of our bunks until the child soldier wanna-be's came to call off the names of the daily winners of the highest DEMERITS and were called into the hall to be marched to stand again along the wall next to the room of Capt. Winters and await his metting out of justice upon his return from rounds.

ALL this comes forth at this point in time from places of fear and loathing, from cellars of fright and shame. IT WAS ALL DESPICABLE AND YET FASCINATING. For the kids involved.......I pitied them for their ignorance , compliance and culpability. In essence? fuck'em...........they got what they .......wanted?

You see Capt. Winters had in his employ "RAT FINKS" THAT HE PAID OFF WITH BOXES OF "Babe Ruth's, Aba-Zabazs,3 Musketeers or,appropriately enough, Paydays. "

to report to him the kids who were seen masturbating in there bunks at night after lights out or at the time (50's) acting "QUEER",WHEREUPON HE WOULD TAKE SPECIAL NOTE OF SAID KIDS ACTIONS. and if he felt that there was fertile soil to plow(!) , would make it a point to make sure that they received "Demetris".

As we cadets stood (at first), butts to wall (yeah, I was a regular there! I was the one who challenged the teachers on their outdated teachings information in the class rooms),we would await the arrival of the capt. to come tell us of our time to be spent with NOSE to WALL! IN HOURS!

As was customary, Capt. Winters would walk down the hall and read off the offenders to be meted out punishments, and those he would take to his quarters for talks!(thies were the kids who were first time offenders and turn-ins from the Kid Officer RAT FINKS! CURRING FAVOR WITH THE GROWNUPS!of any adolescent sexual misbehavior.)

I was ON THE WALL almost every night so I had the opportunity to mark his time allocations.It also seemed that I had balls enough,(albeit the size of pee-wee marbles ), to go look thur his key hole to see what was going on.(the other cadets either were too young, too afraid or just too innocent to go sneak and take a look ), and what I saw was an introduction into the world of "CALIGULA"

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SPUTNIK and the BEATLES
During the time that I was at P.A. I was actually fortunate to hear the beeping sounds of the Russian SPUTNIK as it traveled in its orbit over the earth. Remember this was still the time of the "RED THREAT".We , the cadets were gathered in the big dorms of L&M, to sit around on the floor to listen to Capt. Winters shortwave radio in awe as we heard the beeping sound of TOMORROW!
OK , so now what? beeps , big deal! I'm 12! who cares! RED THREAT! what's that? a rash?
Does anyone remember "the ED SULLIVAN SHOW"?
We had a main viewing hall where we cadets could watch TV en mass when we came back from home leave. Well on this one night the ED SULLIVAN show was on and he had this group of British kids with mop head hair-dos and skinny pants and guitars and this happy beagle looking kid on the drums. they called themselves "THE BEATLES", who knew? They sang some song called,"I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND", or something like that.
UPCOMING ............NIGHTS...and...........
THE DEMERITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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RETRIBUTION

After Flag raising, we'd march into the mess hall and sit at ridged attention with our arms folded in front of us chest high until told "AT EASE', and could start eating. (unless of course you had acquired DEMERITS, ), then you'd be left that way for the whole meal, until the end , where upon you'd be the last one to rise and be told to throw your meal in the trash without eating!(everything one sees in bad "b" movies about military academies is true and then some.). The same ritualistic bullshit transpired for lunch and dinner.Meanwhile the day students would be debarking from their buses.
After any given meal we would have 45 mins. of free time before we'd form up again to drill for 1 hr. then off to classes. Before we finish the day off and go to the dorms , let me jump to the week ends and its "fun". Parents were ALLOWED to take their kids 1 week-end a month to spend at home. (in retrospect , I think MOST parents preferred it that way,)
After the standard crap of the mess halls , we were allowed to go outside in the yards to do what ever. many of us played marbles , and some of us were really good at it . (THAT'S ME! lol), I had one game that was a sure winner for the golden drops of glass. I would sit down with my legs extended and put my 'CHAP STICK" standing on end at my crotch turned upside down with a marble in the cup, and the kids would shoot at it from the imaginary line drawn at the bottom of my feet, in the hopes of hitting off the marble and not knocking over the chapstick. If they did so they would get 5 to 1.It was a great scam! The other kids thought it was so good that they started it on there own. (I was losing suckers!), so I did something no one thought of ,(I put the odds in my favor!), I put a "pee-wee" in the cup !.(it was IMPOSSIBLE to knock off the marble without knocking over the chapstick! I WAS RICH!!!!!! And at 'POTS" I was the undisputed KING!, (of course I cheated! I used an "AGGIE", If you 've never played marbles then to explain it to you would be casting "pearls before swine")
Anyway , as in any world of high finance you would have your parasites who would come around and demand their cut of the action. (the BIG kids, LYSTER , THOMPSON and PHELPS) , They were in Band company. (so was I but, I'll get to that later.) Anyway they were big and bullies and they beat up on us and took anything they wanted! ANYTHING!
I was tired of being terrorized and decided to put an end to it! (Did I say that I like to read? LAU TZUE WAS A GREAT TACTICIAN! lol ) , reading that and coupled with Fathers sense of honor gave me the courage to do what I did next. For days, weeks I studied their habits and schedules. I picked my own battlefield and weapon! I waited until LYSTER (the biggest one),was alone and walking to the lockers and as he turned the corner I brought the baseball bat in a 'MICKEY MANTLE' swing and broke his knee! as he was on the ground crying with no one around to hear , I calmly walked over to stand above him , (inside I was jell-o!) and said ,"If you or the others ever steal from me or my friends again or beat us up in retribution , (I had to explain the word to him.), or snitch on me. I will find you and break the other knee! " DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!",crying and clutching his knee all he could do was nod.
Somehow later some cadets came around and took him to the infirmary and there to the hospital. when he returned with a cast. He and his two goons never harassed us again!( remember that thies guys were 15 and 16 and hitting the growth spurt and BIG!)
Another instance was CADET CAMPBELL! He was our dorm leader, a Sargent by rank.(15 years old!)

On Saturdays we would have "White Glove " inspections for all the Dorms, and after them we would be required to stay in situe until dismissed by our DORM LEADERS, here is where SGT. CAMPBELL(15 YEARS OLD!) would take his sadistic pleasures! We cadets were made to stand at attention before our bunks and the terror would begin! Campbell had a DAISEY PELLET GUN(that looked like a 45cal. "glock" which he kept in his duffel bag (long before HOME LAND SECURITY STANDARDS or simple school restrictions!), and would bring it out and LOAD it! at which point he would rattle off a litany of offences to his person by us. such as not cleaning his locker enough, not polishing his shoes bright enough to shine, not giving him our candy rations or just basic bullshit in general. At which point we were ordered to "about face", and he would then proceed to shoot us in the ass or legs or feet. places that would show nothing more the welts that looked like mosquito bites.

Over the weekend I had thought and thought and decided that I as well as the others had had, ENOUGH!

I waited until Sunday night around 2am , after Capt. WINTERS,(more on him later!), did his rounds and had Myers standing by the latrines as a look out and Becker by the door to let us know if Myers gave the high sign of intrusion. Meanwhile Carter and Morales stood by with a gag as I pulled up his, "Campbells'", sleeping head by his hair to be gaged!

When he groped out, I came down with the "LOUISVILLE SLUGGER" on his leg, then as he went to his leg, I got him on the arm, as he grabbed his arm, I got him in the stomach! he was down for the count but not out! as he lay there crying I got his Pellet Gun and stuck it to his head and said, "IF YOU EVER draw this on us again I will make it so you NEVER walk again! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"

He was VERY stiff the next day ,and NEVER snitched on us and asked for a TRANSFER to another dorm 3 days later!

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