Guy Crockett:  

Life Hello to one and all who might remember me!! I left Spokane in 1986 and moved to Seattle, where I spent most of my 20's having fun and job hoping. I was a delivery driver for the Learning Annex, did a short stint with Metro as bus driver, delivered cleaning supplies for National Sanitary Supply Company, worked for the Puget Sound Blood Bank, and drove for Shuttle Express. One could safely say that I spent most of the late 1980’s drinking and driving. Sometime in the late 80’s I got the bright idea of giving up the driving gigs and trying my hand at something a little more white collar. I inquired at the little shop in the University District where I bought my contact lenses about becoming an Optician. Low and behold, they needed an apprentice optician immediately. I started the next day. That incarnation lasted about four years, with me working at Franz Optical and Pearle Vision in Seattle, and Montgomery Ward, and JCPenny Optical back in Spokane. Yeah, back to Spokane, for what would be, so far, the darkest chapter of an otherwise happy life. In late 1990 my Dad was diagnosed with colon cancer. By Christmas of ‘91, he and my Mom flew to Seattle to spend the holidays with me. During that visit, I was informed that Dad only had a few weeks left to live. I quit my job and moved back to Spokane sometime during the first ten days of January 1992. Dad died January 29th, three days after his 69th birthday. On his birthday Dad made me promise to keep a good eye on Mom. He went quickly and peacefully in his sleep at home. Leaving a wife that was very dependent on him, and a son who didn’t want to be in Spokane, living with his mother. I had to make a major life change. Somehow get out of Spokane, but keep an eye on my Mom. I started the ...Expand for more