Second One

So where did we leave off? I think we left off at Rally's... Yes, we were getting to the point where I was going reveal how I figured out that Jason Ryan did not hate me after all. And that came shortly after I talked about them asking me to close. So I came to understand that when Jim the manager at the time, had told me I was being sent home so often because I could only make sandwiches. So with that offer to learn to close I also had to learn to run the register. And let me tell you what, if you have never worked fast food that doesn't mean anything to you. But if you have you know that once you know how to operate it, you spend a fucking eternity there. So at this time I was in 9th grade and after moving here out of junior high, I was really having a hard time making friends. It was really that whole culture shock thing, I mean at the time in Michigan baggy pants were still in style, and leaving the tag on a hat. And now looking back it was really the high point I'd say for Hip Hop in the last 20 years. It was everywhere, and I come here and am floored. Kids were very different. I was sorta in limbo, and what I mean is before moving to Arizona I had very little interest in sports, or anything for that matter. Maybe playing guitar was in there somewhere but for the most part my parents never encouraged me to do anything, so when we got here they saw the hard time I was having. My dad got me to try out for Intramural basketball. But I'm getting off the point here I'll get back to that. I did learn to operate the register, sadly I got to be a bit to good. And from there that was all I did, we would close the store at 10pm and it normally took about an hour and a half to close everything down. Back to school at 8 ish or whatever time it started at then. So extend that time frame out for a 16 year old it wears you down fast. I never really made good grades anyway, but now they went to shit. Failing every class I had. I went to working until 9, which did help. I got my grades back in line well as good as they were going to get. While working there many many many things happened to me. This is about the time my parents tried to exercise their power over me. I was working full time, the school year was over and I was working all I could. They told me that I needed to cut my hours back and focus on the up coming school year. Which now looking back this was my parents last ditch effort to reel me in, sadly it failed terribly. I had become friends with a few guys from my neighbor hood and wasn't hearing any of it. I was playing basketball everyday and working and that was the extent of my first summer that I was working I should say. Well stick around there is a lot more coming.