Having experienced so much, bullying, teasing and abuse, especially from grades 7-12. I truly relished some special times. The best times were acting in little practice movies that my friend and his older brother, and his older brother's friends would direct and produce.
These guys were a great contrast and relief from my three highly abusive friends who I have not touched on here.
Hanging out with them was lots of fun, as was the acting. These guys actually got a couple movies out on CD when they got older.
This is what made the February 14 coincidence so difficult. I would have likely lost the friendship of all these guys had I graduated on time.
Since this acting was fun, I decided to go to University in the fall of 1985, and take two acting classes in my spare time. I thought I could have fun and gain some camaraderie with new people.
The entirety of both classes went well for the entire semester. There were no bizarre coincidences, distractions or strange synchronicites for 18 weeks. All I had to do was get through finals week for total normalcy, but the forces of nature had other plans.
I had been driving for 12 years. and had been fortunate to suffer only one vehicle breakdown in all this time, and that was when I was 1,000 miles from home. This would change during finals week.
In order to advance to the next class, we had to pass our final performance in each class.
For the first class, I performed a scene from "Hamlet", in front of the class. For the 2nd class, I performed a scene from " A Thousand Clowns" in front of only the teacher in a dark auditorium.
I lived about 18 miles from University. On my way to my Hamlet performance, my car brakes gave out about three miles from the freeway exit. I do not remember how I managed to get on campus, but I was nervous about what just happened, and worried about how i would get home.
Of course to act well, one must be completely into their character, but this was very difficult after what had just happened. I did not pass my final performance.
Two nights later, I am driving to my 2nd class final performance. This time, my tire explodes as I am getting off the freeway. I managed to get to the parking lot, on tire tread, but of course, I could again not successfully get into character, and was not able to advance to the next class.
Once again i had the double whammy effect. There is the direct concern and frustration stemming from these frightening events, but there is the secondary pain and suffering due to my inability to contemplate the astronomical laws of probability that had been violated.
I calculated them as follows; I had been driving for about 365 x 12 years equals 4380 days, with only one incident.
Had only one final performance been ruined by a car problem, the odds would be about two in 4380 that this would happen, or a one of 2190 chance. But since it happened during BOTH finals, the odds are 2190 x 2190, or one in almost 4.8 million. Of course my math is off, but one gets the idea.
I might not have continued on, or passed these final exams anyway, but I sure wish the forces of nature would have given me a chance
These guys were a great contrast and relief from my three highly abusive friends who I have not touched on here.
Hanging out with them was lots of fun, as was the acting. These guys actually got a couple movies out on CD when they got older.
This is what made the February 14 coincidence so difficult. I would have likely lost the friendship of all these guys had I graduated on time.
Since this acting was fun, I decided to go to University in the fall of 1985, and take two acting classes in my spare time. I thought I could have fun and gain some camaraderie with new people.
The entirety of both classes went well for the entire semester. There were no bizarre coincidences, distractions or strange synchronicites for 18 weeks. All I had to do was get through finals week for total normalcy, but the forces of nature had other plans.
I had been driving for 12 years. and had been fortunate to suffer only one vehicle breakdown in all this time, and that was when I was 1,000 miles from home. This would change during finals week.
In order to advance to the next class, we had to pass our final performance in each class.
For the first class, I performed a scene from "Hamlet", in front of the class. For the 2nd class, I performed a scene from " A Thousand Clowns" in front of only the teacher in a dark auditorium.
I lived about 18 miles from University. On my way to my Hamlet performance, my car brakes gave out about three miles from the freeway exit. I do not remember how I managed to get on campus, but I was nervous about what just happened, and worried about how i would get home.
Of course to act well, one must be completely into their character, but this was very difficult after what had just happened. I did not pass my final performance.
Two nights later, I am driving to my 2nd class final performance. This time, my tire explodes as I am getting off the freeway. I managed to get to the parking lot, on tire tread, but of course, I could again not successfully get into character, and was not able to advance to the next class.
Once again i had the double whammy effect. There is the direct concern and frustration stemming from these frightening events, but there is the secondary pain and suffering due to my inability to contemplate the astronomical laws of probability that had been violated.
I calculated them as follows; I had been driving for about 365 x 12 years equals 4380 days, with only one incident.
Had only one final performance been ruined by a car problem, the odds would be about two in 4380 that this would happen, or a one of 2190 chance. But since it happened during BOTH finals, the odds are 2190 x 2190, or one in almost 4.8 million. Of course my math is off, but one gets the idea.
I might not have continued on, or passed these final exams anyway, but I sure wish the forces of nature would have given me a chance
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I guess the forces of nature wanted me to be handy. 
