No!Mike-xxx, did you ever have anyone from your youth that influenced you? Like a football coach, father, grandfather, anyone that showed you anything? Surely you didn’t learn everything in life from television or the internet. Who were the influences in your life? I’m not trying to be an ass I’m seriously just curious. For me it was my grandfather, I would work with him fixing up a cpl places that he owned, cut his grass, hell half the time I think he came up with jobs just to give me a way to work and earn some kind of money. He was a tough old bastard, navy man and Pearl Harbor survivor. Anyways, he was a big influence in my life. Did you have anyone as a kid you looked up to or took time out of their day to help you out or show you things?
I did it myself. I couldn't stand some cocksucker telling me what to do.
Sure I was out hunting, trapping, fishing, with my dad, standard guy stuff. That said I didn't spend much time with him, I preferred to do things on my own.
No one was sitting around watching TV when I was a kid. As soon as class was out you hit the ground running and came back home starving. As a 12 yo you might cover 20 miles on your bike in one day. You didn't want to hang out with your parents as they were assholes and I was specifically told not to come home until dark.
I've always done my best work and accomplished the most when on my own. Others have caused me to always compromise and fuck it up to where I was frustrated. I don't like working with others, as soon as those assholes come around I wanted out of their. Group projects where we all hold hands and smile while we reach over and jerk each other off just isn't for me.
That said I had a lot of friends, but they had my personality, I consider them loners that wanted to do their own shit and not be dictated to. I would have been the total opposite of someone to play team sports. My parents tried to force me into that and I quit that stuff as soon as possible. I was into dangerous sports where you put your life on the line, that adrenaline you get when you just barely pull something off and avoid death.
Now I did enjoy racquetball, but that was only because I used to hit the ball over onto the other courts when their game was heating up and piss people off while they were playing their games leading to these guys having full meltdowns running out of their courts looking for someone to kill. That's what I describe as good wholesome fun.

