oldmrjim

born Dmetri Sarinopoulos, mom could not handle that, renamed me Jimmy Anderson. Moved me to a farm while in 1st grade. She used me as an income source. "loaned" me" to first,, a local soft coal mine friend who paid her 50 cents to put dynamite in hole drilled into the coal seam. Put me in a bucket and lowered me into a "dug well" to clean it out. I remember filling that 5 gallon with all kinds of objects found at the bottom of the well. I remember seeing where the water was coming from. Mom and dad marketed me until I graduated from high school. ! sacked groceries, delivered them on a special bike with a big hopper. Swept buildings, worked on fork lifts, worked in a grocery store meat market. Swept floors. etc, she got every dime.