So I just got out of high school a few months ago. Yeah, Strafford high school.

You're like
maybe Strafford high school?

Oh yeah, she went to Strafford, I recognize you. Yeah. I used to work at Wenedy's with you, am
I right? I worked at Wendy's, it's hard to believe it. Yeah, I was, I was a cool guy at Wendy's, I
tell ya' that.

I'll tell you my school career in a nutshell. Third grade, teacher leaves the room for 5 minutes.
Some guy starts throwing around a pair of scissors playing keep away, you know? That's a lotta
fun. They come to me, I throw them, they go in some guy's eyes, they blind him for life.

"God Hicks! What are you? A psycho?"

"I guess so. I don't know."

The guy's known since day one he's wanted to be a microbiologist. "I'm sorry man." I've heard
he's since become a barber.

"Look alright?"

"Yeah it looks great."

"I recognize that voice. Is that Hicks?"

That ever happen to you guys? Did someone pull your seat out from under you, you remember
this?, and you fall down and everyone laughs, you know? And you do it, the guy falls down and
breaks his back and is in a wheelchair.

"Lemme carry your books, or something pal. I feel responsible for this."

I donno. You remember Christmas? You remember bb guns? The most fun you can have in the
world shooting some little animal? My father said to me, "What do you wanna bb gun for?" I
said, "So I can kill birds." For Christmas he got me a dead bird… It wasn't the same.

Well, think I oughta go to college? Is college worth it? Yeah, you better Bill. Yeah, I donno, I
don't know what I'd be.

My brother went to college and my brother's real smart and all. But it went to his brain, like he
was real smart, but he's so smart that he's, like, incredibly boring, you know. You ever argue
with people that are , that are too smart? It just drives you crazy. I used to go, "I don't have to
do anything". He'd go, "Yes you do. You have to take up space, you have to contain mass, your
cells have to divide."

"Oh yeah?"

I'm sure he got that from our father too. My father's one of those guys who tries to make
everything a learning experience when I was real small. It was like, tragic. I used to go, "Dad,
can I have 5 dollars so me and John can start a lemonade stand?" He'd go, "Well, if I give you
the 5 dollars Bill… As an investor…"

"Fuck it dad. I don't wanna hear that shit today, man. I just want some lemonade, you know?"