In My Next 30 Years Part 3: Doctors say stupidity is evident early on in children

I was about 8 at the time of this story and we were living in Beavercreek, Ohio. And, yes, my gullibility and stupidity were evident at a young age.

We’d just moved to the neighborhood from Columbus after Dad graduated from Ohio State. There were some kids that lived to the right of our house and on the opposite side of the street called the Corcorans. Brian was the older brother and Kevin was my age.

Brian and some of his friends had been trying to get one of us to get in a trash can. Why? I couldn’t figure out at the time. But by acting like really nice guys they convinced the dumbest of us to get in the trash can. So this idiot gets in the trash can as they put the top on and proceed to sit on it and bang on the sides. I, I mean, this kid was screaming to get out and they wouldn’t let him.

Eventually they let him out. They must have gotten bored or something. Anyway, he ran home crying (he was a huge crybaby) and his Dad went over and tore them a new one.

That kid was dumb.