From My Point of View

It was me, my older sister and even my dad's youngest brother was living with us. I believe he came to live with us when he was 11. So we thought of him as our older brother, not our uncle. I remember that he used to tickle me and think it was so funny...He and my sister would just be laughing hysterically and I would be in tears. To this day I hate being tickled. It really wounded me, apparently if it is something that is still affecting me in my adult life.

Anyhow, we were an extremely active family. We all raced BMX bikes. My dad and brother raced cruisers, my sister had a Amy Stormer and I started out on my hotwheel. Every weekend we were traveling to different races and competitions. We were all extremely competitive. But my sister was the best, number 3 in nation to be exact. I remember that I thought she was so awesome and I would never do as well as her so it made difficult for me to transition from my hotwheel to my bike. My dad went out and bought me the best bike out there, an LRV. There were only 8 of these ever made, and he got me one of them.

Hell, I didn't know until years later that he had gotten me the best bike out there but I guess nothing was ever too good for his baby. The shitty thing was that I was nowhere close to the competitor that my sister was even though I had received all the equipment to make me the best. I tried, oh did I try, but it was hard to get into for me. I was always in the shadows of my older sister and always in second place behind the winner. Oh yeah, talk about people you remember.....really??? I remember the names of girls I raced against when I was 6 and 7 years old but don't ask me the name of a person I met today. YIKES!!!

So, I don't know how it affected my father when I wanted to quit racing at 8 but..........OOH, wait. I am going to ask him how he felt about that. It will be nice to hear what he thinks about investing in me and then I quit! I hope he doesn't give me some lame ass father response like, "I just wanted you to do what you wanted and not force you to do anything"....I think now that I am older he will be honest with me so I am glad that I waited to ask these important questions :-)

I will let you know tomorrow and then get on with the story.....Have a great night!