"I Got Better Than I Deserved"- A Cop Story
My childhood was a trainwreck. Just a series of awful events. Strep throat every year, chicken pox, mumps. Whatever pathogen happened to be floating by- it seemed to land on my shoulders. And when covid found me decades later, I got a nice shiny ventilator in the ICU for 9 days. But I survived. My family moved 6 times by the time I graduated. My folks fought daily, sometimes physically. Throughout my teen years, I just began to develop a bad attitude. The attitude that thinks this shit is never going to change. Parents taking their problems out on their kids. People sense when you have a bad attitude. It's like blood in the water. Folks don't care why you have it so much, most people just think you were born some sort of asshole- and they react to that. I managed to get in a few scrapes with the law with that bad attitude of mine. Almost in every one of those scrapes- I was innocent. What always got me into trouble was my attitude. I want to tell you about one of those episode...