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- Steve: Welcome back everybody. Welcome back to the From My Mistakes podcast. I'm your host, Steve. we're just gonna get right into it this week or today, should I say, so I'm glad that y'all are here with me and I thank y'all for joining me once again. I hope y'all have been enjoying the stories. hope y'all been enjoying the podcast overall. so we're just gonna get right into it and Yeah, we're gonna start off once again with a Bible verse that I wanted to share with y'all today. and the Bible verse that I wanna get started with comes from Luke chapter twelve, verse three. And that is for that reason whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed on the house tops. and I felt like that Bible verse tied into what it is I want to talk about today, the stories that I have lined up for y'all today. and I I feel like once you hear you'll understand it a little bit better. But in layman's terms, that's just, you know, what you do in the dark will always come to light. and that's something that my parents had, you know, taught me growing up. Well, you know, there was a couple incidents, where I was trying to trying to hide some things from my parents and ended up being found out eventually and like I've said before, you know, I've had to learn those things the hard way. so we're just gonna get right into it though. this first story I have for y'all comes from when I was when I was in high school, I was about fourteen or fifteen years old. you know, Me and my younger brother, we we had skateboards when we were growing up. you know, our generation, we were we were outside all the time. we was, you know, we was always outside. so we had we had these skateboards that we used to, you know, kinda ride around the neighborhood or, you know, we'd find ourselves a a nice slope to ride down or, you know, whatever, just kind of doing some daredevil type stuff, you know, kids kinda were back then, you know, being outside and just doing some crazy stuff on the bike or skateboard or rollerblades or whatever. I had it all. I had a the the skateboard, I had a bike, I had some rollerblades, I had all that stuff. So one day, you know, me and my brother the place that we were living at the time, our driveway was on a a very a very deep slope. It was a it was a pretty pretty decent size hill that our driveway was on. And then on top of that, the street that we lived on also had a pretty good size, slope that, you know, you had to go up or down or whatever. so what me and him would do is, you know, we'd take our skateboards and we'd sit down on them and we would ride down the driveway turn the corner and we're just kind of flying down the street and we're out there with no safety gear on, no helmets, no knee pads, none of that stuff. you know, we just just out there wildin'. So you know, we'd be out there for a couple of hours just kinda trying to see how far we can get or who can go the fastest. You know, we're racing down the driveway, racing down the street on the skateboards and you know, having fun with that. So one day one day we were out there and we're you know, flying down the hill on these skateboards and I went down and you know you'd you have to pick up the skateboard, walk back up to the top of the hill and then, you know, pick something else crazy to do or just kinda, do another race or another run or whatever. one time I was getting ready to head down the hill and I did head down the hill. So I you know, I got back up there and sat down on the skateboard and I'm out there and I'm in shorts riding this skateboard down the hill. and I get get back to the top of the hill, sit down on the skateboard, and I take off. I'm flying down the hill a little bit and there's an intersection. There's actually two intersections. Not really there's one intersection, to the left and then further down the street, you can turn to the right. So it just kind of curves to the other street, So I'm going downhill. not really even thinking about, you know, cars coming around the corner or coming off of that intersection, 'cause we we didn't really see too many it wasn't a heavy wasn't really a heavy traffic area. So we weren't really too concerned with that. I mean we we knew it was a possibility, but we weren't too concerned with it. So I'm flying down the hill and there's a car coming from the left where that intersection is. And I kind of panicked a little bit. Not not really panicked, but it kind of caught me off guard. And I tried to swerve so that I would miss the car. And when I swerved, the right side of my butt is dragging the ground because I can't stop you know, I'm going at a pretty decent speed. So I can't really stop. I'm trying to put my feet down to slow myself down. And when I turned to the right, I turned the skateboard to the right so that I would, you know, veer off to the right, kind of miss the car. And my my lower half basically my the right side of my lower half comes off of the skateboard and it's dragging down the street for a good couple feet, like a good ten, fifteen feet. So I get up and there is a huge scar on my right side. I've drugged my butt down the street and now I got this huge scar on my butt and and it was pretty painful, not gonna lie. so I picked up my skateboard, walked back up to the house. and just went inside. Like I was just like, all right, that's enough skateboarding for the day. I'm done. so I go back inside and I go straight to the bathroom, straight to the shower. I'm I'm in the bathroom looking in the mirror trying to assess the damage. and there's this huge patch And there's still like little pieces of gravel stuck in it and I mean it's a mess, man. It's it's just a mess. so I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to hide this from everybody. Like I'm trying to figure out how I'm gonna hide it from my parents, how I'm gonna you know, wash it off, put a little peroxide on it or something. I ain't even wanna put any peroxide on it. I knew it was gonna hurt if I did. So I was trying figure out how to just, wash it off, cover it up, and, you know, keep going. So that's what I did. instead of taking a shower that night, I didn't want the the water directly coming down on it. I ended up taking a bath. So I'm trying to like clean around it and not touch it and all that kind of stuff. And for two days after that, I'm I'm moving a little funny. I'm I'm kinda you know, moving a little different and like two days after that, my mom notices that I'm sitting kinda weird in the chair and my mom is like what is wrong with you and I was like I had this look on my face like my mom always knows like y'all are familiar with that mom knows like you can't hide anything from mom she knows you she's going to figure it out sooner or later so my mom was like what what is going on with you Why are you being all squirrely and stuff? And so I told her, you know, I was like, well, I kind of, you know, I kinda hurt myself the other day. so I go to, you know, tell her what happened and she's like, Well, let me let me see it. And she was like, You done left your ass out on the street So she was like, What why didn't you say something? why didn't you tell us what happened? And I was like, I don't know. I was just gonna, you know, just kinda let it heal up on its own So immediately, she goes into triage mode, you know, she gets all the the medical supplies, so to speak. So she gets some peroxide, which is the one thing I was really trying to avoid. That was really why I didn't tell her, 'cause I knew that was gonna be what she did. So she goes into triage mode and get the peroxide out, a couple towels and whatever else. so she's trying to, you know, clean it up for me and make sure it's not infected and all that other kind of stuff, which I don't think it was, but she poured that peroxide directly on it and I was just it was just all over again in pain. And I'm just like, my God. so she, cleaned it up and put some gauze and neosporin and whatever else on it and she was like why you know you can't just not say anything about something like that. that could have really, you know, turned out worse. so yeah that was the story about the the time that I left a part of my, we'll call it anatomy. out on the street in front of the house. and after that I never really rode that skateboard down the hill again. I had PTSD from it. and like I said, I I tried to hide it from my from my parents but, my mom ended up figuring it out like a day or two later and then, you know, I I got the proper care that I needed for it. so you know, if you get into a situation or you end up hurting yourself, it's definitely more advantageous to just go ahead and ask for help. There's nothing wrong with asking for help. I've definitely learned that lesson the hard way, you know, pride is a pride is an evil thing and you gotta be able to just put that to the side and realize that you need help and not be afraid to ask for it, not be ashamed to ask for it. So that's definitely the lesson And like I said, trying to hide it definitely doesn't make it any better. definitely will make it worse. make it worse for yourself and and depending on the situation, you know, make it worse for others. So that's the first story. and then the second story that I have lined up for y'all is also involving my parents in another situation where I was trying to hide something from them and they ended up finding out about it I didn't lose any of my anatomy in this situation. so this was shortly after I graduated high school actually I was working at Quick Trip and I was supposed to go to work that day. I was actually supposed to work at another store that was maybe twenty, thirty minutes from my normal store. You know, the normal store I worked at was right down the street from the house, but they had asked the previous day if I could work at another store. and for whatever reason, they ended up not needing me once I got over there. So they told me you can go home if you want or check to see if there's another store that could use you or, you know, whatever else. So I was just like, I'm I'm just gonna I'm just my favorite word, I'm just gonna go gallivanting for the moment because, you know, my my parents think that I'm working, so I'm just I'm not gonna go back home. But I am gonna go, do some running around or whatever. So at the time, I had some friends that lived not too far from me and that's what I decided to do. I decided to go over to my friend's house instead of going back home. and instead of telling my parents that I wasn't working and where I was going, I just didn't say anything to I just, hung out over there for a little bit and, like I said, my parents didn't know where I was. they they thought I was at work and I had been over there for I don't know, a couple of hours, two, three hours. I don't even know how long I had been over there, and funny enough, in getting over there, like I had to pass by my house. So I had already, you know, taken a chance just passing by the house. But, I'm getting ready to leave. Or actually I did leave and I'm at the intersection and I'm waiting to pull out in the traffic. And I'm looking, you know, I look look left, look right, waiting for traffic to kind of clear up. so that I can, you know, pull out of the neighborhood and go on where I'm going. And I look to the left again and who's coming down the street? My parents. And as soon as I looked to the left, I saw the car first. I knew it was my parents' car immediately. I was like, that's not my parents, is it? I'm looking and I'm thinking to myself, like, why would they be coming from back there? Like they never go to the store back there. So I'm sitting there and here comes my parents' car. My dad's driving. My mom is in the passenger seat. And they both look at me and I'm looking dead at them. I'm sitting here getting ready to come out of this neighborhood. And I was like, man. So they pass by. I'm still sitting there waiting to get out of the neighborhood to to make my turn and go on where I'm going. But in that moment, I obviously I had a change of plans. So I went back to the house. and I think my mom had texted me or something was like, was that you we just saw? And I was like, yeah, that was me. I was dropping off somebody that lived over here. Like I gave somebody a ride that lived over here. I I was just dropping them off and, you know, I was getting ready to head back to the house. And again Mom always knows. your parents know. Like you you're not you're not fooling them, no matter how many times you may try. Lord knows that I I tried quite a few times. never worked out for me though. so I got back to the house and, my my parents was like, what are you doing over here? I thought you were working over in like Stone Mountain or something. And I was like, yeah, I got over there and they let me go early and basically told that I gave somebody a ride. Like somebody text me or called me and asked me if I can give a ride and they lived over there and that's what I was doing over there. And they both were just kind of, you know, they gave me that look like, Do we look like we were born yesterday kind of deal? Like We're not we're not fooled. We're not we're not buying it. I could tell that's what they were thinking. They didn't necessarily say it at the time, but I know that's definitely what they were thinking. Like, you're not you're not fooling us, bro. So that was another situation where not necessarily doing something dangerous this time, but I was not where I was supposed to be. and I was not where my parents thought I was at the time. And you know, it came out pretty quickly because like I said, that that particular situation my parents never really went to the to the grocery store that was off of that particular road coming from that direction. I thought I was good, you know, I I definitely did not plan for or think that, we would cross paths as I'm coming out of this neighborhood. And it just caught me by complete surprise. And I'm trying to, fabricate this story as to where I was coming from and why I was over there in the first place. So that did not work out for me at all. so with the the Bible verse that I started the episode off with, just plays right into it. It's just, you know, whatever you do in the dark's gonna come to light, at some point. And, you know, those two situations, one of was a little more immediate than the other. I told my parents I was gonna be somewhere and I wasn't there and they ended up finding out a couple of hours later, you know, we ended up seeing each other and then I'm having to scramble to try to come up with why I was over there in the first place. it's also a lesson than just be where you're supposed to be. and there's always a reason for that. I know people don't especially teenagers or young adults, you know, they think, What you know, why are you tracking me and you know, why why are you worried about, you know, where I'm at and what I'm doing But it's not it's not about that. number one, it's about a respect thing. if you're telling people you're gonna be in a certain place, then that's that's where you should be. especially nowadays with all the crazy stuff that's going on, you know, with all these random shootings and people coming up missing and it's important that people know where you are and it's it's an accountability thing. It's you know, I just wanna know where you are and if you're safe just in case something happens in that area. You know, if I'm telling my parents that I'm at work over here at this particular store and something happens at that store, obviously the first thing they're going to think is, Are you okay? and if I'm not there, then that's great if I'm not there, but they need to know that so that they're not worried about, you know, where I'm at or what I'm doing or anything like that. And then it's also if something happens to you, you know, you get into an accident or whatever, then they would need to know where you were at or, you would want somebody to know where you were at because obviously they'd be worried about you and if you weren't where you say you were going to be, then that that would just create a whole nother problem in itself. So, that's just kind of the lesson that I wanted to talk about you know, doing what you say you're gonna do, being where you say you're gonna be and just kind of being accountable and being trustworthy, I guess you could say. you know if you say you're gonna be somewhere, say you're gonna do something, make sure you do it, or make sure you're in that place because it's not just about you in that situation. you know, it's about the people that care about you and the people that are closest to you and and being able to to feel secure in knowing that you're okay. anytime that gets I'll say distorted, then you know, you start to create more issues not only for yourself but for other people. so that was a lesson I had learned, you know, kind of at a at a younger age. Like I said, I was nineteen, twenty years old at the time. I hadn't quite left for the military just yet. but those are the two stories that I wanted to talk about today and the just because you can moments that I had, you know, just because you can. skateboard down the street, injure yourself and not say anything to anybody doesn't mean you should. you should definitely, definitely ask for help. you know, just because you can, lie to your parents or even anybody, about, where you are and what you're doing, definitely doesn't mean you should. you know, it's like I said, it's not just about you So those are just a couple of stories that I hope y'all enjoyed. they're not quite as serious, but serious enough to you know, get the message across about the the mistakes that I made and and being able to learn something from those. there's a lot of lessons in there. like I say, being accountable, being responsible and doing what it is you say you're gonna do or being where you say you're gonna be. So again, those are the two stories I had for y'all and I hope y'all enjoyed I talked about the the skateboard incident and how I injured myself and didn't tell anybody about it and almost made that situation worse. and then another situation where I was skipping work gallivanting and not where I said I was gonna be and got caught. almost almost immediately. hopefully y'all learn something from my mistakes there. and then I would like to start interviewing people, start having some guests on for the future episodes. I know y'all are enjoying my stories and just listening to me talk, but I really wanna start getting other people and their stories and their lessons out there as a part of the show. and being able to talk to them and, you know, talk through the moments that they have and the lessons that they have that they're wanting to share with people and hoping that other people can learn from their mistakes as well. so if you want to be on the show, you can reach out to me on Facebook or Instagram. Or you can, you know, shoot me a text message if you happen to have my phone number. if not, I also set up an email address just for the show. And that email address is jb26 at gmail.com. Again, J is in Juliet, B is in Bravo, Y is in Yankee, C is in Charlie, 26 at gmail.com. I'm gonna close it out there. again I appreciate y'all coming out and hanging out with me for a little bit. I appreciate y'all taking the time out to to join me and give the episode a listen. 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