David Pielock:  

Life First off, I didn't go to Greenfield, (Dated a Green Wave girl, and married another though) Frontier, Franklin Tech or Pioneer, so if you click here thinking I'm someone you may remember from one of those schools...Well...It wasn't me. I joined those others because as an employee of the Umass Grounds Dept, I find lots of things like rings, books, and personal items with owner's names. Sometimes the rightful owners are easy to find, and sometimes they're not. Oddly enough, I've picked up a slew of class rings over the years, and I've had a 90% success rate of giving them back to those same folks who lost them. It helps if there's initials engraved, ya know? Anyway... I live a boring, mediocre, and lackluster life...But after the trials and tribulations of parenthood, I wouldn't have it any other way, School Wow, where to start...Biggest crush? I sure made enough of a fool out of myself, so I'm sure she knows who she is. Teacher who inspired me the most? No names, but he told me "Your not going to get far in life with your attitude. You have to put SOMETHING in to get something out of it." Unfortunately, it took a while for it to sink in.... One of the strangest memories I have of highschool is a "smoking pass", and in fact I still have it buried away somewhere. I told my daughter's friends a while back that we had a designated smoking area and they were in shock. I also remember skipping school in the morning to go deer or squirrel hunting with a group of guys who'd already graduated, and then showing up in the student parking lot around 9:30 or so, cleaning my shotgun in the back seat and then going to class. Wouldn't wanna do THAT now. There were a few road trips to Vermont with the usual crowd, but on one in particular we ended getting a flat tire on the way back to Montague from Vernon. As luck would have it, someone else in the senior class happened to be...Expand for more