When I was 17...

Just inspired by that other thread about music...what were you doing as a teen? No music just what did you do?...this just came back to me today and....I was much younger than 17 but I was working so maybe 15....I spent a lot of time visiting this kid....I worked beside his aunt and....plucked up the courage to go see this oddity (at the time he looked like nothing I could ever describe in words here) but....I guess I got hooked on visiting him rather than music...he was my inspiration back then I suppose...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/08/21/the_boy_david_story_2003_review.shtml

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So I guess I could say something that will tie this post in with Britt's Thanksgiving one....I'm thankful David was rescued...thankful he found a home and to some degree help...thankful that I met him.

Nice story Hellon.

I was working very hard in a factory, a papermill actually. I had no parents to support me so basically I was working before I even officially finished school. Working hard and drinking a lot. I didn't do much of anything that was special except survive and somehow not end up like the rest of my family.

My post wasn't intended to focus on me Kevin...far from it....did you even take time to look at the link?

However, I do realise I asked the question about what you were doing so....a papermill? A lot of people in Glasogw worked in Wills cigarette factory back then or...Collins...maybe that's more up your alley? Me...I started off life as a window dresser for Galls....Ask your mum/granny about that one haha!!!! I am now classed as a visual merchandiser...I think?

Oh...and can you remember what your first wage was anyone....mind was 6 pounds...and 10 shillings LMAO!!!!

Yeah I read the story Hellon, but I don't give a monkeys about some random person in an article. When I said "good story" I meant yours, because I have a partial connection to you.

If your post wasn't intended to focus on you, why'd you make most of the post about you? :)

My first wage was £75 for a full time working week but that was due to me being 16. By the time I was 18 I was making £200 a week, which back then was big money where I came from.

Kevin...some random person in an article? This was actually history in the making. No one had ever tried to reconstruct a face that was so badly deformed back then. Ian Jackson was a pioneer in his time. Have you ever seen anyone with a hole in their face where a nose should have been? Have you ever wept over a child who is so badly deformed that they cannot open and close their mouth to form any words because their mouth is up where their nose should be? Have you ever seen skin grafts grown on other body parts in order for reconstruction to begin....this is painful in itself (and very ugly to look at)... He is not a random person....he's a human being and...one who humbled me to a point you probably could only imagine. Yes, I believe you work with handicapped people and I applaud that so that's why it saddened me that you would call this a random person.

Are you offended I care more about your story than the boy David? Aren't you a weird one.