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i remember moving all the time
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i remember moving from Ohio to Alabama and not being allowed to tell
anybody
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i remember the night my grandfather had the car wreck that changed our lives
forever
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i remember mama telling us if dad dies she would lock us in the car, in
the garage with the motor running saying "we would all go together"
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i remember being told to lean forward in the car so mama could pull my
hair or slap me - i always did cuz the alternative would be worse
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i remember mama pulling into stranger's driveways and telling us to get
out of the car, she was leaving us there
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i remember being called an accident and my sister a mistake
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i remember getting my ass beat with a fireplace shovel til i hyperventilated
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i remember getting sent off to a christian school cuz we were disobedient
and they were dealing cocaine
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i remember coming home cuz uncle wally demanded it and i had nothing
left. my clothes, jewelry, stuffed animals and books were all gone
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i remember going into The Pegasus in Muscle Shoals and buying inositol
cuz they were too paranoid too - i was 15
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i remember i was supposed to flush the drugs if the police showed up -
again 15
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i remember the first time i got drunk was me, denise, rob, and carl - drinking
capfuls of some sweet red wine. We were
young, maybe 4-7 years old. They were
smoking marijuana.
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i remember one fourth of july all the men got drunk and shot fireworks
towards each other, burning holes in all their clothes
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i remember the well on riverview road and the nightmares i had where
screams came up from it
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i remember my grandma threatening to stab my grandfather with a screw driver
- this was after the accident
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i remember the desk in grandma’s office and after the divorce (auction)
my best friend’s mom had it in her bedroom
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i remember being 13 and taking a whole bottle of aspirin - didn't kill
me, just made my ears ring all night long
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i remember running away from home when i was in kindergarten
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i remember my dad pulling a gun on my mom while my baby girl was in
mom's lap
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i remember the Christmas eve it snowed in alabama (1989) and dad made us
all go to bed early because i made my daughter go to bed at 9:00 pm so Santa
could come - we had lotsa toys to put together.
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i remember almost every holiday being a circus cuz one or more people
got drunk and fucked it up
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i remember having a Honda 50 motor bike and it being stolen. To this
day I think mama did it because it made us happy.
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i remember going to west virginia to see my grandarents and mama and her
friend giving the four of us kids (two hers and two her girlfriend's) a 10 milligram
valium, split 4 ways, to shut us up.
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I remember mama and the same friend picking up hitchhikers and putting
them in the back of a pickup truck with us four girls.
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i remember in 1971 when my uncle mike died from an overdose mama had a
nervous breakdown and and poured bleach in every plant she had and slept for
days on end.
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i remember the story of my mom calling her mom and telling her to
come get me or she was going to throw me out the window.
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i remember crawling out the window to get away once i was older
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I remember being grounded from my room
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I remember being grounded from reading books
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I remember being grounded for bringing home straight A's and one 89 B -
one more point would have saved me 6 weeks of misery
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i remember begging Mr. Swinea the next semester for a way to make up 1
point so i wasn't grounded again for another 6 weeks
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i remember when i was thirsty being told to "swallow your spit"
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I remember having credit and letting our families take advantage of it for
boat seats and furniture and never paying us back
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i remember buying a car from my cousin and sending mama money to pay him
and i don't think she ever did
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i remember the pain i felt when she took my kids just because she could
- dad worked for attorneys and judges
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i remember being told by my in-laws that "if the judge said it was
true, it must be"
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I know every night mama had my son she would make him pack his clothes
and wait for us to come get him and then tell him we didn't love him - knowing
we weren't allowed to pick him up
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I remember the chritmas my daughter got 100's of dollars spent on her
and my son got a $10 dump truck
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i remember them taking my kids a second time and us moving to Georgia,
leaving everything behind, because once again they had no grounds or basis
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i remember crawling in the back of a dear friends van and never looking
back as we left our home and all of our belongings to keep our kids
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i remember going hungry to feed my kids
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i remember living with little food, no phone, no internet, no car - just
so we could keep our kids - utilities were in the landlords name and when we finally
got a phone it was in mama's maiden name. for the first year nobody but
one person in alabama knew how to reach us.
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I remember bailing hay, with asthma, to bring home $20 for groceries
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I remember I hated working at wal-mart but it fed the kids
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I remember being arrested on my way to work for no license, no insurance,
loud muffler - my first check was going to get me glasses so i could get
my license renewed. the muffler was the least of my problems.
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i remember having to quit college because we had to leave alabama to
keep our kids. i completed 21 hours the first semester, (with a 4.0 in
all but one class) the year my son started kindergarten, but everybody
thought i was supposed to stay home and be a mom. that's the first
reason given to take my kids - i was neglecting them by not being there
during the day, while they were in school.
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I remember nobody called to tell my husband his grandmother had died
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I remember my cousin steve died before i was ready to lose him
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my cousin mike could have been so much more
· I know i can't find the rest of my cousins
online - we've lost touch
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I remember i still owe my aunt and uncle for a final electric bill i
promised to pay if they would keep the utilities in their name
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i never went to my grandfather’s funeral
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my uncle charlie died too young and i miss him terribly
· my husband and I are both unemployed due to state budget cuts - I hated my job but he loved his because. he built it from the water up (he was the marina manager)
IZEAFest at SeaWorld from Ted Murphy on Vimeo.
Kinda creepy - like the Langoliers, unless you stood in the middle of the store like cattle waiting to be slaughtered.
Had I been the manager I would have apologized to the customer, honored the price and corrected the pricing immediately. Karen walked away from the customer, without fixing the price and refused to deal with the situation.