Paul Stewart:
CLASS OF 1977
Brawley Union High SchoolClass of 1977
Brawley, CA
Ruth Reid SchoolClass of 1977
Brawley, CA
Ira J. Earl Elementary SchoolClass of 1977
Las vegas, NV
Barbara Worth Junior High SchoolClass of 1973
Brawley, CA
Swing Elementary SchoolClass of 1972
Brawley, CA
Paul's Story
My party hell raising days are done
a lot of you would find it hard to beleive that I been sober and drug free for the last twenty years I am a grandfather and have a son that works for the Internal Revenue Service I have another son who is a car salesman and a wife whom works as a teller at one of our local banks. I am a Smog Technician and assistant manager for a local repair shop.
Well left high school 1975 hopped a few freight went to jail overnight for hopping a few freight trains but did Mardi Gras 1976 dispite the delay. Mardi Gras 1976 is a blurr in my memory but I mustv'e had a good time.
I do remember waking up in Orange Texas in a druken/hungover state in the rain on the freeway talking to a Texas State Trooper about two or three days after mardi gras telling him I was trying to get to Beuamont well I didn't say Beuamont California I let him to beleive I was trying to get to Beuamont Texas which was just a few miles from where I was at, at the time. His words were I will be back in one hour and if you are still here your going to jail. I thought nice cop and was picked up a few seconds later by a ride that took me all the way to San Antonio. When I got there I was sober has a judge and hungry as a bear I got me some coffee and some grub at some little diner after doing some dishes and them nice folks giving me some grub to take with me it was off to the freight yard where I caught a freight train to dallas and met up with a brakeman that hid me from the bulls I really wanted to visit Daily Plaza but was informed that the next freight to california was comming down the track and if I didn't want to be snow bound in Dallas I be best on my way so not to take chances I hopped that freight and got off in Indio CA. acouple of days later. And ended up living in Palm Desert for a couple of months...... The rest is a lot of work and school and partying on weekends. and days off. Then there was the time I sobered up a for five years met this woman her father is the most kindess person on the planet Dr. James Hammond PHD. (He worked on the shuttle program in it's infant stage at Vandenburg AFB) didn't get along with her mother (Whom used to be a cut and paste artist for Gems & Stones) to well she was strict and her daughter wasn't any good at all I will say is her mother was happy when the boys came and started treating her a little better. I tried to make this work but after a while my not being high got the worst of me and started to dabble in street drugs again. after trying to make this work for a total of twelve years we both threw in the towel and got a divorce (MY FAULT) so from 1980-1992 it was over she first won the custody battle and that woke my ass up. It was either that or the day I was sitting in a little diner with my boss. There were these two sheriffs sitting at a booth across from us one happened to say to the other "you see those four boys o...Expand for more
ut there by the paper machines their going to wind up dead or in prison" well I happen to look up and two of those boys were my boys. I went out brought them in and looked up at that cop and said not these two. Sad to say the other two boys ended up dead about a year later killed by some drug dealer. I cleaned up started my own landscaping business later my own computer repair and custom desktop computer business did well for a couple of years but when the landers earthquake happened in 1992(was bad for my marraige but when life deals you lemons.... ) it opened up a door for my two boys to come and stay with me for a couple of months then when it was time to go home they didn't want to so I went back to court beleiving that I had no chance in hell of getting custody of my two sons I know they aren't just my two sons but at the time if I didn't step up man up the cop was going to win so back to court back to mediation back to court and a month later I found out that court papers in a divorce case are not written in stone so it was 1990 New Years morning partying with Tod Reyes and his wife Rebecca the night before I woke the next moring with a bad hangover that ended up being the flue on top of a hangover a $5,000.00 bank check for a landscaping job and a flat tire on my truck no spare and my phone disconected it was three miles and four days later before I could get a hold of this person I was doing this landscaping for most of the check was for supplies the rest was to be used for bills like the phone bill. I made up my mind either way if I still had the job and the check was still good I was done drinking and parting (Now mind you in the past nineteen years and 7 months I probably have drank a twelve pack but not all at once.)No it didn't take a program all it took is those haunting words of a sheriff and a $5,000.00 bank check. Well I called the person I was doing the work for she was mad as hell couldn't blame her but after I told her I was done with smoking cigarettes , pot booze and drugs. Why should she beleive me she heard this same cock and bull storey from her own son. She told me she was on the way to the bank to put a stop payment on the check and I told her let me save you the trouble and I will bring it to you, She was shocked she thought I already cashed it and didn't have it. I showed up with the check and when she saw it. She told me I couldn't beleive you would do all this work for free a whole months worth then skip out on me with my check, She then said you still want to work for me I of course said yes I want to finish this job I was on that job for two years from 1992 to 1994. The hardest thing I ever did wasn't quiting drugs, booze, cigarettes. It was getting that cops words out of my head. My kids are grown now and have turned out to be what I wanted myself to be dependable and reliable and good citizens without going about it the hardway.
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