Stephen Shumate:  

CLASS OF 1984
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Polson High SchoolClass of 1984
Polson, MT

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Hmmm, well after I quit high school I moved to Nebraska and got a job with the State taking care of interstate highway rest areas...toilet cleaning mostly. Lived there for a year, moved back to Polson for a few months. Moved to Northern California with friends at about 19 yrs old. Got in trouble...moved back to Polson. Moved back to Nebraska at age 20 and tried my best to be a lazy pot smoking bum. Did good at that for about 6 months, got in trouble...moved back to Polson. At 21 yrs old moved to Los Angeles area with friends, took about 6 months bumming around before I got into trouble and moved back to Polson. Turned around and tried Nebraska again for about 1 year, got in trouble, moved back to Polson for the final time. Pulled my head out of my butt and got a job at the Lumber mill for a couple of years then started cooking at local restaurants. In 1991 I started cooking at The Ranch, ran the kitchen there for 5 years as head cook then quit and opened the kitchen at The Salish. Took 6 months of abuse there from the former truck driver owner/idiot then went to work at Polson Bay Grocery for 7 years. Got bored there and in 2003 I decided to take a shot at my own business by turning my 1200 movie collection into Steve's Videos. 5 years later and 5000 more movies and I am making a decent living. I stayed mostly single during those 20 years, almost got married once when I was 25 but luckily I chickened out. Dated a little for th...Expand for more
e next 15 years but never felt like any woman was "the one" that I could share my life with. I was almost set in mind to be a bachelor for life until the wonders of the internet opened the world up to me and I found my soul mate 8000 miles away. After a 2 year long distance relationship, Judith moved here to Polson and we got married on April 14th 2008. She is currently 5 months pregnant and our first child is due January 10th 2009. IT'S A BOY!!!!! I am now very happily married with a modestly successful business and very much looking forward to being a Father...and still living in Polson! Update 12-15-2009...Brandon Arthur was born January 22nd 2009, 12 days past due...21 inches and 8.9 pounds. Fast approaching his 1 year birthday. He is just an absolute joy, very happy baby with 2 very happy parents. He is crawling and pulling himself up to stand which means he is into EVERYTHING! I figure he is about 1 month away from breaking my stuff, but that is ok cuz I love the little bugger. Still have the business but times are tight with the recession and an industry leaning more towards online rentals and rentals from a vending machine or through mail. By the time my kid is 18 there will be no such thing as "service" in this country. Seems the mantra of the day is "cheap cheap cheap" and the first thing to go to reduce cost is service. Unfortunately for consumers it is one of those things that people do not miss until it is gone.
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