Personal Influence
Uploaded by joshbob__ on Mar 14, 2005
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Some people growing up in high school seemed to be influenced by their friends, clothing, music, or even what sports they liked to play. What really changed my outlook on life was my car, an old Ford Taurus. It had many scratches and gaps all through the body of the car. It resembled that of a beat up tuna can that’s found in a person’s garbage. This really old beat up car further kept me isolated then I already had been; in fact, my car changed my personality by extremely secluding me as a youth, especially at school and when dating.
During my days in junior high and elementary school I was more out spoken. I think it’s fair to say that I was more like one of the kids in class who wore a dunce cap in the back, and spoke every week or hardly at all. Yet on the other hand, at lunch or at recess I interacted with my peers socially. A good game of Soccer when I was in elementary and computer games at lunch when I was in junior high. But most of that would change, as I would venture onto high school.
When I reached high school I further isolated myself from social crowds from fear of an ugly car. No one at high school had a worse car than mine, well except for the Bingham twins that had to push their car to get it started every morning. So I guess I really had the second worse car at school. I often felt that I wore an imaginary silver Olympic medal, for possessing a substandard car. And every one marked me as junkyard Josh. “Hey it’s that guy who can’t afford a car that doesn’t look like it came out of a Ford penitentiary,” the kids in the hall would say to themselves as I walked by.
One day, after a P.E. class having just beat some basketball players at pepper (a game that two people compete to shoot out each other); I felt very proud of myself and walked out the school doors, my chest puffed up. I felt exhilarated for beating jocks at there own game. Then, in the parking lot rite before I was about to get in my car, a group of outcasts began laughing, turning around, a really fat...