Ivan Simms:  

I was Introduced to this "Classmates" Site Several years ago by a Dipshit Friend who thought he'd get his Kicks & Giggles at MY Expense by observing the Look on my face when he Showed me a NAME that he Knew would STILL Haunt me,, And SO, If my old friend should happen to see this commentary, and has managed to Dry-Out , Sober-Up & Pull his head out of his A#S since I "BEAT Him to within an Inch of His Life,,All I Can Say is , "There is No need to Thank me for-it, since I'm sure that it was the LEAST I could do for my Best most Beloved Friend.. AND, should he Ever Happen To Need some Help Dismounting his 'Hobbity-Horse again, Then frankly he's Better-Off just Riding it Out till he dies of thirst or loneliness" ,!,,{*_*},,!, However digressing to 'Classmates' though.. I Attended Sequoia School From the Time I was a 6 Year-Old Kindergartner Till Those Latter-Days as a 12 Year-Old Sixth-Grader. And, as I recall I always had a Notorious Reputation as a Bit of an "Odd-Ball" & Was Never in Danger of getting Accused of Being Anything of a "Genius". Ha!,,Quite The Contrary. Since I was Often seen taking "The Walk of Death" to the Principal's Office , & It was nearly as often suggested by more than one or two Teachers, that if I "Didn't Straighten Up I Would NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING",, HA!!,, What did THEY Know!?!... Well...Actually ,, it's not as if they didn't Kind-o-Have a Point... Since after all,, between a 'Hitch' in the U.S. Navy after High School & drifting hither & yawn & everywhere else in the country for three or four decades, There WAS , the Small matters of Three Divorces, ( Four if I count the annulment but I won't if nobody else will),, & Oh Yes!,, the Two Prison Terms,, ONE of them a Homicide, (But for what it's worth he had it coming & nobody'll miss that POS Anyway),,, & OH yea,, just in case anybody happens to be wondering what all that 'Smoke & Ash' in the Air from Sea to Sea is all about?... It's probably just the 'residue of some 'Precautions' I'm often inclined to take while "Crossing Some Bridges" ahead of the Pursuit of my Life, Liberty & Happiness,, lest it 'Bite me in the A#S for carelessly neglecting to Look over My Shoulder in time to 'See it Coming',,, BUT,, Also for what it's worth , (Though I Felt kind of Creepy about it),, After 40-plus Years of Dragging some Really Ragged-Baggage about it,, I DID manage to track-down that aforementioned 'Namesake' of my earliest acknowledgment' & Wow!,, Ain't Face Book a House of Cards?!?,, Frankly it's my preferred however unqualified-opinion that only "Fools & Dipsticks that didn't get enough attention as Children" put their life on "Front Street" for all manner of A-Holes to gawk-at and make god-knows what kind of mischief with,, But Ha! What would ' I ' Know,, Since it wasn't such a bad idea after all,, And perhaps , on a brighter-side That's what it's there for anyway. Especially since after getting One look at the Picture & realizing that I'd never have been able recognize her if I didn't already know who "She." was. Wow! Totally Bloomed to the dimensions of a House that I would've never been able to afford at the best & especially the worst of times any way! Thus upon clearing the Beer from my Nasal-Passages, I ultimately came to the conclusion that "She." is thankfully the apple of somebody else's Cares, Concerns & Give-a-Derns, And all, is just as well that ends well, And, a far-sight less 'Splendorous' under the influence of 'Grass' than any anticlimactic conclusion to some poorly-written kid's-stuff drama in an old Natalie Wood movie! So as long as "I'm OK" then quite frankly I perfectly couldn't care less whether or not anybody else 'is OK'! However in less cryptic inference, though seemingly no-less crazy, I don't know WTF kind-o-'Weird-Bomb' exploded there,, But the last time I saw the old Westminster Indian Village childhood stomping-grounds it was one hell-of-o-creepy Alternate-reality Twilight-Zone Version of itself! Looking for-all...Expand for more