What I recall of my dad
May 1, 2021
He worked a variety of different jobs and was well known for working on cars as he worked for the family auto shop in his late teens, early adulthood. He worked for the J.C Penny Motor Company in Metro-North Shopping Center for ten years. He also had his own lawn service for a while before he let his gambling habits get the best of him. He was married at the age of nineteen with one child and divorced at the age of twenty-two from his first wife. He remarried several years later, however, divorce was unknown, and no children came from the second marriage. Mike was a social person who enjoyed consuming spirits at the local tavern, wherever he might have resided at times. He liked to share stories and made jokes, sometimes and other people’s expense. He had a way of talking to people that made them temporarily enjoy his presents while conversing, sometimes letting him vent out his emotions about his struggles in life. Mike was like a tea, unsweetened tea, that had a bitter taste to it at times. He was not everyone’s cup of tea, people struggled to choke down his crude humorous ways of venting and conversing. Some people had sympathy for him, others empathized with him and there are those who loved him the most who could simply no longer condone his toxic behaviors and how he carried himself.