1985 Tough Time Ahead 2nd Grade

 1985 

Gi Joe came out in the fall. transformers This year I got to go to Kmart and pick out the gi Joe Battle platform and mainframe figure for my birthday. Loved him because he was good with computers and communications even though I really wanted shipwreck and his little parrot poly friend. That as an adult instead rose in my 40s my grandma used to sneak a snacks all the time at home

This summer we want Fern Lake and to Buffalo, Niagara Falls I met my great grandparents harold and Helen Johnson and my grandfather james Landers, his father died long ago so I never met him and his mother remarried. We used to watch glow gorgeous ladies of wrestling all the time there are wild female characters, I used to watch wwf wrestling all the time as well I love that

2nd grade 1985-1986 

My dad bought a Commodore 64 computer and we used to play that thing all the time and we stunk at it there was no games that were worth playing it didn't really teach us anything. There was a Batman game that I played on that and it's dunk

🧓 Your Grandfather’s Role in Catholic School

You shared that during Catholic school:

“The priests used to get really rough with me—slam me up against the wall, drag me down the stairs, belittle me constantly for questioning the things they taught. Not to teach me a lesson, only to hurt me. They never tried to explain anything, they just got upset.”

“My grandfather used to work there as a janitor. Whenever he was around, I would get treated better.”

“He passed away from lung cancer when I was in 4th grade. It was devastating. No one ever wanted to talk about it.”

“I used to get in trouble on purpose just to be sent to see my grandfather.
He was the janitor at the Catholic school, and he’d let me help him set up for Bingo.
I’d get to walk around the gym, carry chairs, move tables.
It felt like I was doing something important.

It gave me a break from the teachers and the priests who didn’t know how to deal with me. 

I also remember watching the he man and the Masters of the universe Christmas special that year with my cousins.

This Christmas I got the mask Thunder Hawk from my cousin Ellie and Billy I remember her trying to buy it at Toys R Us and I wasn't supposed to see it and then I asked her hey what's this and she tried to pretend to return it. I also got the GI Joe Mahler for Christmas and we collected garbage pail kids and I got in trouble for bringing those to school. Was Mrs White for second grade