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Best laugh I've had in a long time!


I'll try to keep this short.

A bit over 10 years ago my brother Barrie passed away very suddenly. He was one of my very best friends. We always just got along well and shared a lot of the same views on life. He was a very intelligent person. (He once confided in me that his IQ tests had indicated him to be well above average). However, he never liked school and his passion for cars led him to choose a career in of all things, an auto wrecking and repair shop. He never got his mechanics license because he dropped out of college after the first semester of the technicians program.  At approximately age 50 because of rules requiring him to have that license if he wanted to have apprentice employees, he challenged the provincial exam and slam dunked it which earned him the paper to hang on the wall (which meant nothing to him but he had to have it.) He was pretty much successful at anything he attempted because he would educate himself on whatever it was to the point he had all his bases covered. He had a great sense of humour and was just very well liked (as evidenced by the very large crowd of people who showed up at the service when we celebrated his life.

His widow and children are cleaning up in preparation for her to move from their home into a small apartment. My nephew sent me this little nugget that shows not everyone loved his style, at least in high school where his mind was never on his studies (as solidly proven by the teachers comment!. He spent his days figuring out mechanical stuff, as this report card shows, rather than working on his high school diploma! I don't know what grade this was but it's clearly high school as evidenced by the courses. This would have been in the mid 1960's.

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Must be something with the name. I have the same name a similar report card. My typing teacher told me I will get a passing grade if I dont come back the next year. That worked for me! Double periods of auto shop next year. Did very well in trade school, (something I liked) later in life. Barry

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It sounds like it could have been "Hi, I'm Barry and this is my (other) twin brother Barrie"!

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Life is often about meeting other people's expectations, but sometimes one can be in another realm or another level and people just don't understand or recognize it. Not everybody jumps through hoops on command, but just because they aren't circus material doesn't mean they aren't trainable, disciplined or motivated by something.

Carl, it is nice that you can look back after all these years and still find some humour in reflecting on Barrie's life.

 

 

I can still remember one report card comment on a friend's brother card that read, "Standing in corner, winding watch."    Huh? Apparently the brother was facing the wall in detention while the teacher was adding comments to report cards, and that is what the teacher saw & reported.



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Auto teacher told me if I did not do my book report I would lose 25% of my mark. I told him I was good with 75%. That's what I got. 



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Classic. I have my report cards from Grade 1 - 9, and had straight A's in Grade 2. Lets say I peaked early.

Fortunately, my math marks were always high, which came in handy in my electronics studies.

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Our kids have always known I never passed grade 12 but I didn't show them my high school report cards until they both graduated. Like my brother, I didn't do much homework either.

Thankfully they have their mom's smarts and motivation, our son got his degree and is teaching, our daughter is a cpa. My only degree is life experience...  Evenings and weekends in high school were spent working at the service station pumping gas and learning mechanics.



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That's a great little tidbit!  On one of my report cards I got the comment that I was working "above my ability'   On reflection that has to be one of the most insulting comments I have ever had tossed at me.  Basically it meant that we think he's an idiot but he's faking it somehow.  Kinda funny though.



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"My only degree is life experience"

That degree will get you anywhere you need to go !

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That report card could have been me Carl. If disinterested, the grades were poor. Interested, the grades could be good.

 



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That report card could have been me Carl. If disinterested, the grades were poor. Interested, the grades could be good.

 


 Same here, but I never had under a 50 and did finish high school. Came from a 1 room school, grades 1-8, woodstove, no running water, 1 teacher for all grades. When I was the only student in grade 3, the teacher had me do grade 3 until Christmas, then I did grade 4 the rest of that year, joining the 2 kids already in grade4. That move made me the youngest and usually the smallest kid in my class all the way through high school. Never went to higher education after high school, became an apprentice- banker! At age 17.



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cdnpont wrote:

That report card could have been me Carl. If disinterested, the grades were poor. Interested, the grades could be good.

 


 Same here, but I never had under a 50 and did finish high school. Came from a 1 room school, grades 1-8, woodstove, no running water, 1 teacher for all grades. When I was the only student in grade 3, the teacher had me do grade 3 until Christmas, then I did grade 4 the rest of that year, joining the 2 kids already in grade4. That move made me the youngest and usually the smallest kid in my class all the way through high school. Never went to higher education after high school, became an apprentice- banker! At age 17.


 I also did the 1 room, 1 teacher school until grade 5. By the time I was in school we had an oil furnace but that only arrived shortly before I started school 

Isn't it amazing how we survived al that, and on top of that, came out unscathed (sarcasm!)  And as a bonus, even without a diploma in my case we were successful in life with our careers etc. Not many employers now will hire someone without at least their high school complete unless it's a manual labour job that anyone could do basically. And in a way that's sad because as has been proven, some sort of paper hanging on the wall isn't always an indication of the level of competence. 

When I was in school they had the OEC class which basically was for those kids who were judged to be the ones who wouldn't go far in life. That was SO messed up, that thinking. That basically made them a focal point for ridicule. I know guys who were thrust into that class who later on were very successful in all aspects of life.



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At age 12 my 11 year old sister passed away due to leukemia. 

From that point forward I sank into depression.  Failed grade 8,9, and 10.

Went to Cedarbrae Secondary School where they had implemented an IBM class with Unit record machines and a machine that could produce business reports by changing the position of the wires on the back of this big board.  The keypunch machine put holes in the cards as you typed and the machine translated the holes into data.

I was hooked...  Typing teacher thought I should be able to type 30 words per minute... NOPE.  Look for me in the computer room.

My computer efforts got me a summer job working at Eatons of Canada on their computer system.  Feeding the mail order cards into a sorting machine then running reports with customer names and addresses on the invoices.  One  night went for a coffee break and on returning there was this fluttering noise. ..  The forms that had been printed somehow go sucked out the open window at the back of the computer and were drifting down 11 stories to the parking lot in the middle of the night.   Stopped the ruffle and gathered up as much as i could then spent time in the parking lot collecting the remainder.  Passed grade 12 and returned to Eatons for another year. 

The depression at times still lingers.

Attitude helps.  Learned from a former gas station mechanic.

Shit or get off the pot!~

Have a happy day. .

Cliff



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