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The pain was brutal from the skidding. Somehow I took myself into the
campus infirmary and was treated for several scrape wounds and skid
marks which kept me laid up for several days until I could move again.
This may have been the closest I came to die while skateboarding and to
this day I do not skateboard at least down steep hills.
Although I was in a beautiful place at SLO I found the weekends a bit
to SLO no pun intended. I was not a pot smoker and not into the party
scene at SLO and too young to go to a bar since the drinking age in California
was 21 unlike the 18-year-old drinking age I was accustomed to
in New York. I had partied way too much in my Junior HS and HS days
and I was motivated to get my education behind me and go to work.
What was I thinking … Looking back I rushed into my misguided career
which was a mistake.
My advice to college kids is to take time to figure who you are while in
college and what you like and don’t like. I was young and restless and
thinking I was doing the right thing. I had no Idea.
I knew I had a job in LA at my Dad’s company. I thought let’s get this
degree ASAP and go to work, get married and have kids. I was damaged
from losing my brother and thought I had to live life in the fast lane
since our days on earth are not guaranteed.
My Days at SLO were numbered. I was ready
to go home and enroll at a College next to
where I grew up and get back in the City life.
It’s called stepping back instead of moving
forward and sometimes that’s okay when you
really don’t know what you want which I did
I traded in my reliable
1969 Volkswagon for a
1963 Ford Falcon Station
Wagon while attending Cal
Poly San Luis Obispo and
Cal State LA . She lasted a
few years before I Started my
career and traded her in for a
Chevy Nova
not have a clue. I did meet a very nice lady
from San Marino while at Cal Poly. On
weekends when I went home she would
sometimes drive home with me and back. I
would leave her off at her parents’ house in
San Marino on Friday Night and Pick her up
on Sunday for our return trip to SLO. She
was a beautiful lady with blonde hair and
gleaming blue eyes. We never dated. Another
mistake I made. We were just friends. I was bit too into the books another
big mistake. Not enough time for dating at least I thought.
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