With the passions I have, with the experiences in my life, I can push myself to the boundaries. I can push myself as far as anyone else, and further. I am a soldier in this life. I am a warrior. I do not give up. I will not give up...I cannot give up.

You know as this life of mine has progressed, from bad to OK, to pretty good, too good, I have learned many things. I have learned an important lesson of not to burn your bridges, meaning don't lose the trust of others. It's an important thing to remember in your life, since you always end up going to old friends, or even old aquaintances. I'm telling you, from experience, do not burn your bridges.

One time I was arrested, you know for something stupid, I guess they called it assault, but I called it self defense. Well I needed someone to come down and bail me out, and my best friend Jose was in Mexico for the week, visiting family, so I had to call an old friend, his name was Ted.

Now let me tell you about Ted. He doesn't put up with shit. And I know this for a fact. I guess back in highschool, I had made a booboo. I had had sex with his sister at a party. Now soon after, and he didn't find out, and his sister didn't want him finding out, because me and Teddy were really good pals. But I mean, I just couldn't resist. The alcohol, maybe it affected my decision on having sex with her or not.

But anywho, he found out. And well I had never spoken to him up to that phone call, and let me tell you it wasn't pleasant. Seeing as I had one phone call...Well let's just say that the one phone call I was allowed, it was a waste. I had too spend the three nights in jail, and pay a hefty fine.

Here's how it went.

'Hey is Ted there?' I asked.

There was a pause.

'Why who wants to know?' the person asked.

'I do.' I said.

'Who's I?' the man asked.

'Me.' I replied.

'OK well who the hell is me?' the person asked.

'Jeff.' I said.

There was a pause.

'Jeff who?' the man asked.

'Tannon, why?' I replied.

'Jeff Tannon huh?' he said.

I didn't know why he would say that. But it didn't sound good.

'The same Jeff Tannon who had had sex with my sister back when we were good friends in high school? That Jeff Tannon?' he asked me.

'The one and only,' I replied too quickly! I didn't really want to say that to him, I was just thinking it to myself! But dang it all, I said it.

'Well you know what you little punk, I don't know what the hell you *Beep* want, but you can kiss my ass, and if I ever see you, I'm going to whip yours!' he shouted.

'I need you to come bail me out, it's 600 dollars, man.' I responded.

'You want me to come and get you out of jail?! After you had sex with my sister!? Man there is something wrong up in your head! Your an idiot and you will never amount to anything! Goodbye!' he shouted even louder.

My feelings had been hurt. This was not the only time I have been told I would not amount to nothing in life, but I knew for certain it would not be the last.

I hung up the phone, and spent three nights in jail with two gay men.

It was not a fun experience, but I survived.

Now back to not burning your bridges.

Well there you go, don't. Perfect example of why you don't want to burn your bridges.

Now here's another instance where I have burned my bridges. There was this girl, her name was Caitlin. She was a very beautiful girl, nice bust, blonde hair, beautiful smile, and well I had had sex with her one night, and I never called her again. Now I was out of money, seeing as how I had been let go from the AWWF, when it closed down, so I was making zero money. I went to her apartment and asked for some money. Here's how this one went down.

I knocked on the door, and I waited a minute, twiddeling my thumbs before it was opened.

'HI there, is um Caitlin around?' I asked.

'This is her...Who are you, and how can I help you?' she said, she had some peanut butter on her fingers and she licked her finger. I heard a baby crying in the background.

'Well I was just wonderin-' I started off but she interupted.

'Are you with the church? Those bastards, I told them I would send the *Beep* money to them in a mother*beep* week!' She shouted.

'No no no! Ma'am I'm Jeff Tannon! I don't know if you remember me, but we had a little thing a while ago, and well I am out of a job, seeing as how the company I was in closed down, and yah. I was hoping I could borrow some money to get me back on my feet.' I replied.

She stood there staring for a moment.

'I'll be right back I want to show you something Jeff Tannon.' she said.

She walked into her apartment, and came back with a kid.

'Meet your son, his name is Chris.' she said.

My mouth dropped open. It couldn't have been true!

'Yah, you bastard you had sex with me and you didn't use a condom!' she yelled at me. She extended her arm and slapped me across the face. 'Now get the hell out of here!'

She tried slamming the door, but a thought occurred to me, and I stopped her from doing so.

'It can't be my kid...I only had anal sex with you Caitlin. Remember, it was your first time doing it, at the party?' I said. I smirked at my smartness. I am a genius.

She stood there in awe, I removed my hand from the door. But she put her hand up to her mouth in shock of this news, and she slammed the door anyways. I heard her scream inside the apartment, yelling out, 'I'm going to kill James! That bastard lied to me!' I walked away, empty handed, with no money, no job, and well, no bridges to walk back on.

This is why I tell you kids, not to burn them bridges. You will regret it in the long run!.....OR WILL YOU? ;)

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