Thursday, January 24, 2013

Three Brushes

Growing up, I found my share of mischief, but had few real brushes with the law. A few minor traffic violations and the morning after the huge Lewis Lumber Company fire on Bishop Street meeting in the Principal's office with a couple of the city's finest and that was about it for me. Across the street, in the yellow three-decker though, there seemed to be always trouble. Lots of times in the summer, the walls of my bedroom were lit up by the flashing blue lights of a  cop car lugging one of the guys away. Quite a few of the boys often took a trip 'up river' too, to the Correctional Center in Windham for a few months. One thing that caught my eye was that there were always good lookin' girls heading in and out of that building. They seemed mighty fine too. They and their boyfriends were our 'wild ones', and the closest I ever got to real danger.

13 comments:

  1. One lonely walk to the front office was it for me. Scared straight worked. Pretty sure my father would have incorporated the death penalty if he'd known about it.

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  2. i like the tie in there with the brushes with the law! clever!

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  3. I was a rule follower myself. I knew a few kids though that got sent away.

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  4. love this image...i wonder how many of us were roused at night by the sweep of an emergency vehicle's light across our bedroom walls.

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  5. More of a "Soc" than a "Greaser", huh?

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  6. Such a great image - and I don't know exactly why - just very appealing textures and colors and objects and . . . .

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  7. you were wild in your own, good way. :)

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  8. Hmm...perhaps there should be an itty bitty paintbrush depicting your small brushes with the law.

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  9. I knew a lot of girls who were drawn by the "wild boys" and I'm pretty sure a few may have some regrests. I on the other hand was always drawn to intelect over brawn. I was probaly labeled a nerd by most. Little did they know.....

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  10. Some girls seem to go for the 'bad' boys.

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  11. I think everyone is drawn to a "bad" person every now and then. Nice shot.

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  12. I had a spotless record. How boring.

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  13. Brushes with the law or attraction to the bad boys is not part of my record, either. Better to be boring than regretful.

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