Keep Your Eyes On The Prize And Never Give Up

I met this girl at a friends house. She was his cousin from across town. She filled my mind and I couldn't get over her. My friend told me where she went to school so I went there to wait for her to walk home. She was surprised to see me and told me she didn't have permission for a boy to walk her home. I asked my friend to tell her she needed to let me see her.

Her mother told her that until she was older she wasn't to talk to boys, especially boys with a motorbike. And she wasn't ever to ride on a motorbike. My heart was torn out of me, I couldn't sleep, my friend told me to give up, she wasn't ever going to get permission to go out with the likes of me. Fishin' in the wrong pond boy, that's what my friend told me his father had said.

I cleaned up, wore my best jeans, my sister cut my hair and she went with me to talk with her mother and get permission. My sister promised that she would be in the same room and that I wasn't bad like some of the other boys of my school. The answer was for me to stick to the girls of my side of town, this girl was too good for me.

I wrote her a letter and told her I was going to college when I finished high school, just wait and see. To get to college I first had to join the Army to get the GI Bill. And she had no choice but to wait. I did my four years, two of them in Germany and when I got out I went to college and got a business degree. I married my sweetheart when I graduated and we are married today.

And that's the way you do it. Boys from my side of the track never took no for an answer.

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by Anonymous on Jan 13, 2022 at 3:23 AM

Wow. Great story. What a lesson about persistance.

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