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Originally Posted by SleazyDream
3. Talk about how you grew up on a farm in Wisconson.
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I haven't really thought about this in a while, as I am certifiably all-porn, all the time these days.
We used to milk cows, I wasn't terribly fond of it. I was in the barn from the time I could walk I guess. It was a lot of shitty work. In the winter it was shitty work and freezing your ass off. In the summer, it was shitty work and then more shitty work because you were tending to the crops. I was driving a tractor pretty early on. Driving a tractor is kind of cool, but not for the hours upon hours it takes you plow or disk a field.
The cool thing about the farm is the open space. We had ATVs when I was a kid, which are a hell of a lot of fun. And also, I would learn from time to time, a recipie for disaster for a reckless youth like myself. We built jumps, carved pathes through the woods, went mud running through the swamps, and sometimes ended up in the hospital.
We also had a lot of forested land, which meant hunting.
A lot of people not from Wisconsin don't understand the allure of deer hunting. You sit in a woods freezing your ass off for hours waiting to see a deer run by. Sometimes you don't see any at all. When you do, and you raise your rifle, it's one of the biggest rushes you'll ever experience. Moreso than any substance can provide. There is also a lot of drinking cheap beer involved with deer hunting (as there is with most things in Wisconsin). So the family would get together, drink cases of Pabst, eat tons of food, cuss, play euchre and shoot shit with our rifles. Good times!
Anyway, we lived in the country and I went to school in a really small town - 615 people large to be exact. It's called Suring. You'll be hard pressed to find it on a map.
I graduated in a class of 37.
I always hated small-town life, which is probably why I live in L.A. now - much more my speed, which I guess is balls to the walls.
I do miss all that green grass everywhere though, and the lakes and forest. Of course, now I can't sleep without the hum of traffic, sirens, etc.