i must ask unprompted hc question: what was vfk like in his Youth
Trouble! And he’ll admit it too. Straightup, kids like him were the reason they invented the word ‘delinquent’. He was the little shit who broke your window.
I guess VFK’s school experience is pretty interesting because almost never showed up! And when he was actually there, he was selling single cigarettes he took from his mom’s purse. Unsurprisingly, he got suspended a lot, got a girl pregnant at prom because they heard you couldn’t get pregnant the first time, and skipped town.
As a teenager, he smoked a hell of a lot of weed, a hobby he only occasionally gets up to these days having mostly stopped smoking it way later when he got out of 8 years of prison (and great hash) in his thirties. He started drinking and getting tattoos pretty young too, and was down to steal beer from convenience stores with his pals. Hell, he’d steal anything that wasn’t bolted down, and would still try even if it was. I’m talking bikes, road signs, parking meters, shopping carts, motel TVs, traffic cones, change from payphones and vending machines.... If it could be grabbed, permanently borrowed, or pried out with a crowbar, he’d give it a shot.
He’s always had sticky fingers. And he’s always been a smooth talker and a risk-taking guy. But a lot of the finesse definitely came with time. And with getting caught.