I remember that we had a teacher that we used to make fun of. She was our Home Economics teacher. She was overweight and short and had large breasts. We called her "Torpedo T---". You can guess what we called her.

Me and my friend Chris put a character in our book called "Torpedo T---".

I feel really bad about it though because it was cruel and she didn't do anything to deserve it.

Sometimes action figures would come with some kind of movement. You could lift their arm and it would spring back into place.  Well, I twisted one of my GI Joes only to discover that it would twist back similar to other action figures. I also found that they could be twisted almost a complete 360 degrees and they would spring back into their normal orientation.  Unfortunately, the Joes weren't intended to be twisted in such a fashion.  One time I twisted one of them and it broke.  The body fell off of the legs.  Then I was able to see why.  Basically, the top was connected to the bottom by a glorified rubber band.  After I discovered that, I stopped twisting them, but I started taking them apart to see if you could put one Joe's body on another Joe's legs.  It was very difficult and there were casualties.

I don't know why I remember this.

I remember when my brother and I were playing basketball with the guys and we were all pretty competitive. My brother was being a little bitch on defense and was pissing me off. I got so mad I just all of a sudden punched him in the face. All of a sudden his eye was bulging. I could not believe I actually did that! Wow, I was a little crazy. I guess I just got him back for when he punched my teeth out when we were little. His black eye was crazy. I felt really bad. Looking back on it, it was just good old brotherly love.

One time at our house in birdland, Kevin and I were shovelling in front of the house. We had these small, cheap red metal shovels with wooden sticks and a red plastic handles. Kevin must have been shovelling near me because he brought his shovel back and poked me in the eye. I remember crying and making my way up to the front door and that I was crying blood. I guess that Kevin just missed my eye.
I remember going to Dr. O'Neil's office before it was at Clarkston Medical Group and getting some stitches. I was laying down and I remember feeling something really cold touching my eye.

Back in the dizzay our family would drive up to Suttons Bay each summer.  Suttons Bay is just south of Traverse City, I believe.  That is where John and Derek lived.  They are Bill Conrad's kids and Bill is one of my dad's best friends.

I remember one year that we bought these toys from Kmart or something.  They were little hollow, round, squishy balls that had a hole in them so you could use them as squirt guns.  The strange thing was that they were faces of horror movie characters.  I had one of Jason from the "Friday the 13th" series and one of Freddie from the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series.  I used to watch those movies a lot as a kid - disturbing huh?  But somehow the squirt guns were good clean fun.

I think that we lost the Freddie toy in Lake Michigan.