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iBoaterer[_2_]

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On 2/3/13 10:07 AM, iBoaterer wrote:

I have been in detention before, yes. I actually lived a full life as
opposed to spending my days taking "practice tests" and going to the
opera. I worked on the family farm, made decent money for a kid, had a
trail bike, a snowmobile, loved working on cars and such in the heated
garage during the winter, in summer was always in the woods or fishing
the creeks for rainbow trout, or playing baseball or some such. Would
come home at dark. At that age I could rebuild a car engine by myself,
weld, fix anything. I was independent, worked for others if my uncle
didn't need me on the farm. At that age me and my two best friends built
a cabin in our woods complete with gravity fed water from a fresh
spring, wood stove etc. In the spring one of my favorite things was
gathering maple sap and boiling it down over a wood fire in an old sap
boat that my great uncle handed down to me. I would then give relatives
syrup, stock us up, and sell the rest. Gee, that makes my childhood seem
so boring, I wish I could have went to the opera.....

I don't know where you got the idea I spent my days taking practice
tests. I did spend a couple of Saturdays doing that when the SATs and
such were imminent.

You told us your mom made you take practice tests when you were in
school.