So we then moved out to albright shores, which is kind of a suburb of beaverton. Now beaverton is a tiny tiny town anyway, but albright shores was still small enough it didnt warrant having any of it's own stuff, so that's just how it was seen. We lived in this trailer on a dirt road buried deep in there, and I LOVED it!!!!! We were right across the street from the lake. I went fishing every single day. I cleaned and cooked what I caught (yes boys and girls, in 4th grade I could do that). I basically took care of myself. I had several friends, including an extremely attractive tomboy named bobbie jo hudeck. She later gets pregnant by this guy that was a total A$# at like 16. Sad..
Also had a crush on another girl in neighborhood that was like in 6th grade and was only there sometimes....Totally embarrased me when she found out and I hid out in someone's RV??? Dont even know who's it was. My sister was friends with her...To be honest the whole events there are a little fuzzy. We moved into another house in albright shores briefly. I remember crossing an iced over lake and playing with some kid a few years older than me that was a troublemaker somehow. Not even sure how. I do remember his house being really cool, right on the lake, and him having a Simon game.
I remember my mom having a friend somewhere in this time we would go over to her house and play with her kids while they smoked a bowl. She didnt work either, and basically kept having kids to get more welfare money. Kinda glad Clinton reformed that. Yes Clinton, not Reagan or Bush Sr....fixed that. Eat that repubs.
We moved in with grandparents (mom's) briefly. Very briefly really. They didnt like us there at all obviously. This must have been somewhere in 5th grade, but not sure when. I remember visiting cousin Eric at a house he lived in up there for a while. How the heck did he end up living in Beaverton some while his dad still worked down in flint....I dont have a clue. I need to ask that I guess. Anyways, he didnt live there for long. He had such a cool treehouse there though!
Then moved next door to the Beaverton Food Center in town. This was 6th grade now?? (Almost seems like I'm missing 5th grade entirely. Hopefully I'll remember that later).
I loved that house. I would work next door at the food center and stock shelves and do pricing and they in return put tons of credits on the Galaga game. I remember watching Transformers on a tv with an antenna and barely picking it up. I remember hanging out with chuck warner ALOT. Going to dances at the bowling alley for kids...Dating Rachel Sharich. Who was in fourth grade and her sister Lynette was in my grade. But she was cuter. Long hair. Wow that fetish started early.
I remember that punk that later knocked bobbie jo up once threatening to beat me up (simply cause he could and he was a bully). Grabbing me by the neck and digging his fingernails in enough to bleed.
I remember running away from a couple of older kids that were going to beat me and chuck up, and I ended up getting hit by a car and put in the hospital for a week and out of school for another few weeks after that. About 3/4 through sixth grade mom met some guy named Greg and was moving to Dearborn with him. My sister went to stay with a friend and I went back to grandparents (dad's). Sometime I believe during early summer my grandpa passed away while I was living there. No one's death has hit me as hard as his did. He was truly a great man. I have heard bad things about him since, his temper and such that he had. I never saw it. Not a bit. I have never met anyone so patient with me. Never met anyone I wanted to live up to or please as much as him. I still talk to him, ask him how I'm doing. He's my conscience.
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