06/07/2026
Stories about people I've met.
1.
I once knew this guy he was older than me but we thought he was like 60.
It always knocked everything over. No matter what day like a walking tornado.
Turns out, he was a kickboxer in his twenties, in a match one of his kicks killed the opponent .
By the time I met him he was 35 we thought he was 60 that's what a lot of m**h will do to you. He was recovered by the time I met him. Trying to hold a job the best he could.
2.
I once met these two dudes, old dudes, I was a young head probably 19 picking up and delivering parts for a machine shop in Trenton. They worked at this big steel place we'd go get metal from. One was white one was black, they were the most openly racist people I ever met in my life. Like laid it on so thick just to f*** with people coming in, jokes back and forth constantly like they sat up together at night writing them for 30 years🤣 they were best friends. They worked there together until one died.
The other one died was in that same month, Like an elderly couple ♥️.
3
I once had this boss crazy Old hippie boss kind of guy with a ponytail real thin down to his back only from the back of his head the rest of his haircut short weird jersey style grateful Dead shirt regular working Man jeans. He was a machinist I learned a lot from him.
He used to deliver to this place in Philly man it was bad like leave your car on bricks bad.
He goes " yeah whenever I go down there you see this pencil?" He shows me a perfectly sharpened pencil. " Well I keep this in the console anybody tries to Jack me I stab them in the neck and snap it off and get the f*** out of there! It's not a weapon, it's what I had always think ahead kid."
4
I once knew this guy, he was a good friend for a while.
Turned into a head and then full-blown ju**ie. Eventually burning out every resource he had.
I had love for him. But the last conversation I had was that I couldn't trust him to meet our newborn child.
I couldn't trust him to not fall asleep standing up in our home. He was too bad at that point I already bounced from everybody's house. I was a lot younger than too.
Fast forward 10 years he's a social worker with the highest success rate for the worst cases of drug abuse turn arounds.
He's a completely different person. He built a whole new life working 60 hours a week to help as many people as he can.
Someone asked him that I've been doing it for 20 years with all kinds of degrees how has success rate was so high and how he could turn around people that even they couldn't.
He said because what I learned, I learned through blood sweat and death, the pain I live with from what I've seen and what I've done I wouldn't wish on anyone. What I have can't be taught, it has to be earned. And you won't get that at any school.
So if you can't fix them send them my way I can help. ♥️
The point of all these stories is if I was born wealthy would I even know this world was out there? Would I even know how hard it got just to deliver parts to do your job?
Or know what it's like living with the pain of accidentally killing somebody and what a person puts themselves through to deal with it?
I mean Jesus Christ I learned from a young age having rich friends and poor friends.
There's a whole bunch of different worlds out here all you got to do is get in the car and drive 15 minutes to get to another one. Your rules don't apply there and they speak in a different language. But we're supposed to act like we all have the same opportunity 🤣🤣🤣.
Man I've met people so arrogant they told us as kids oh well just go to school for that 🤣. If you didn't want to do this just don't. Just move to a better section if there's crime. 🤣
" So uh you going to finance that transition for me? Or is money just going to fall out of the sky like it did for you."
There's a lot of pieces to this machine we call America we got to start to even out the quality for all of them.
An engine won't function long running on an engine block made out of lead. That one part makes up the majority of the combustion engine. It's what everything else connects to to function. Doesn't matter if all those parts are made out of higher quality material if there's nothing to hold them together.
