Brian Garnier:  

Well...life has definately been an e-ticket attraction so far. After a year & a half of high school, I shoved my favorite things into a backpack and at the age of 15, headed out to see the world...with my thumb out. After 2 years of hitchin', heavy drinking and lots of drugs, I was back home in Costa Mesa. Well, not exactly home...I was living in the tractor tire at Tewinkle Park. When winter hit, I decided that the park was no place to be, so I enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a Sonar Tech. After Basic, I was stationed at an anti-submarine warfare base in San Diego (1978). We considered ourselves the "elite". Heck, we surely must have been the elite, we had a beer machine right in the barracks...35 cents a can. After much more drinking & drugging (no drug tests on our base), I was kicked out of the Navy for having epilepsy (from head injury while playing football). So after 6 months as a sailor who never sailed, I was back on the street. (side note: while on my first 2 week leave after Navy bootcamp, I ran into a friend of mine from high school. I asked him if he wanted to snort some coke...his reply was "Why do you want to waste it?", So at the age of 17, I became an intravenous drug user. I started out main-lining coke, then turned to crystal meth (crank)...Expand for more